Sorry for the super late reply and questions. I did some search on the forum but got little overwhelmed by the information.
I am currently a smsl M8 owner with a gen 2 beyer t1. This looks like a weird combination but turns out to be ok for a daily driver. Now my M8 broke down and I found out that the M10 was sub 500 dollars on amazon. I was wondering for 450 bucks if the M10 was a decent choice for a replacement of my M8 and if there are other good choices for the similar price range.
I searched for quite some time on the forum but most recommendations are out of my budget range like schiit Valhalla with another good decoder and some over 1k options. (Burnt a lot of cash on a musical instrument recently. playing music is usually fun than listening to music lol) t1 gen3 is out so spending a lot of money to drive a 600 ohm monster is probably not worth it as well.
Not trying to deliberately bump old thread here but I figured maybe I should not open a new thread. Feel free to delete this question if I violate any bylaws and thank you for your input.