Opinions on best integrated under 10k?

Highly consider the Naim Uniti Nova.
It is a digital streamer, DAC, integrated amp all in a single chassis. It retails for $7500 brand new. It will drive your speakers with ease and sounded highly musical. Has superb streamer and DAC. Has built-in Tidal, Deezer, Quboz & Roon apps. Has both XLR & single-ended analog audio inputs as well as Ethernet, USB, spdif & Toslink digital inputs. 

It sounded extraordinary has rhythmic drive, tonal weight and tonal density you would normally expect from much more expensive unit. Excellent PRAT. very musical sounding unit.
Highly recommended.

Audiotroy.
The only reason was using the digital out for headphones was it was the only way left to do it.
To drive subs and a headphone amp the prospective new amp would need to have 2 sets of analog outputs.
Agreed on ph10 phono I could use rca instead of xlr.

And yes I can run the Samsung bluray into tv via HDMI as I am doing but the sq when fed back through the tv toslink is noticeably inferior to the sq of the Samsung bluray feeding the 2170 with its own toslink.

I have had time and opportunity to try most options available...lol.

May have to rethink the whole approach but for now still enjoying the music.

Here is a list of super integrateds from Darko, not a single tubed version in this particular mix:

https://darko.audio/2018/07/15-must-hear-super-integrated-amplifiers/

(solitary exception of tubed linestage in the VR Lio)

Esoteric makes some stunning integrateds.