@prashanth13485
What is your NAD? An integrated or an amp only that has left right potentiometers on the front like an NAD 2600A I once owned? I’m using a separate preamp and amp and have the output on both my Bluesound Vault 2 and RME set to fixed output and only using the pot on my preamp. If your NAD is an amp only and something similar to what I had then turn the gain down on the amp. It’s possible your speakers are efficient enough your amp is more than big enough to drive your speakers. I have very inefficient speakers but with my large amp and the size of my room I get about 9:00 as well and it’s plenty loud... will it play louder? Yes but I want to keep my hearing into old age so I respect them and actually play my system at lower levels as it has become more refined.
You mentioned your Dali’s are power hungry so without knowing what your NAD is, I’d pull the gain down on it, set gain on your Node to fix and use the volume on the RME. If you’re NAD is an integrated does it have amp input only to bypass the preamp section? Might help knowing what model your NAD is. Reason to make your RME the only device with volume and the others fix as I’d bet it’s the better by a good margin over the NAD and I know it is over the Bluesound as I own one myself.
I think I posted a link on RME’s site on how to go into the menu to adjust the gain out put. Also make sure you don’t have the Loudness function on the RME on. See page 21, 36, 37 and 63 of the manual on line output settings. Hope that helps.