Anyone who has ever seen a Chord component (or even a picture of one) knows that their design is somewhat quirky to say the least and definitely outside of what would be considered the normal audiophile equipment look. However, I agree with the conclusion in this review. Really ?

Last edited: Nov 14, 2016. Here you can ask which headphone is better, which amp you should buy, which gear best fit your budget and anything related to headphone comparisons and purchasing.Press J to jump to the feed. Would customers pay Premium Prices for something dreadful? I also had the Blu 2 with the DAVE and the M Scaler with the TT2 and Qutest. Your emergency backup battery supply is probably not anything like the supply for the Hugo 2. I note it was in fact John Atkinson. I have a live recording that I made many years ago of a very good symphony orchestra playing Ravel’s complete “Daphne et Chloe” ballet complete with large chorus.

I am also a bit unclear from the review as to what headphone amp was being used for the A/B testing?
Nevertheless, I like the overall "Apple-like" product design.Chord designs kinda look like the space ship in the Spielberg film 'Close encounters of the third kind' :-) .........Thank you for another great review. Starting with the iconic (and very expensive) “Dave” model DAC/Preamp in 2015, Chord released a number of DACs using the unique FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) based multi-bit DAC designs of Rob Watts. ( which is probably why families/wives eventually condemn us to the dam Basement ). I've now sold them all because I have moved on to other things. another test with a battery only would be very interesting - stack up some D cells and let us know Thoughts on Schiit Audio Yggdrasil v Chord Qutest? Qutest VS Hugo2. Benchmark DAC3 - anyone done this yet? feeling is better than apathy or purely style-less products like Bryston. 6:57. The Qutest is a small, black device wider than it is deep (6.3" vs 2.85") and housed in a case of machined aluminum. As have most sane human beings, as demonstrated by there being less and less dedicated hifi shops.I have reached a point where I am happy with what I have and unless something breaks and can't be repaired I don't visualise any more significant (= expensive) purchases.I'm in the UK. And even when the processor uses a digital reconstruction filter, arguments rage about whether that filter should be linear-phase or minimum-phase, and whether it should be short (have a very small number of coefficients or taps) or as long as possible. But If you want the performance of a Hugo 2 then you will have to buy a Hugo 2 (or, better yet, a Hugo 2 TT). No phono, no tubes.….the poor ergonomics of some Chord DACs don't matter in actual use, which is listening, not testing.And as for sample rates, you play what you have, some of which will be 44.1, some 96, or whatever. It is insane to buy DAC for thousands of dollars only because reviewers like it or that it supposedly to be neutral or whateverJust saying where I am coming from. All functions and sample rates are indicated on the Qutest by colored LEDs. How would you like a Ford F150 Qutest pickup truck? My brother and I both prefer the Qutest and then sold the Yggy.Something I’ve noticed for a while now, but in your wideband spectrum of white noise measurement, Fig. :-) ...........Integrated amp for the 21st century :-) ............I could be very cool to have historial "competition review" between the hitorical outstanding BB PCM 1704** dac (derived from PCM63/1702 dating all way back to mid 80 ties) and how this brilliant Burr Brown R2R technology have found its way into modern FPGA implementations in Denafrips Terminator and Soekris 1541 who both are cutting edge implementaions of this fundamental Signed Magnitude R2R ladder, with clever reclocking and femto level clock oscillators to eliminate jitter, etc etc.When one sounds a tad better is it because of the Interconnects?, the difference in Interconnects?, the associated equipment's interface preferences, the physical location of magnetic fields or what?? Footnote 2: See Herb Reichert's Follow-Up in this issue (p.117). According to Watts, transient performance in a digital reconstruction of an audio signal is probably the most important part of that reconstruction because human hearing depends on our perception of transient information to accurately hear such musical cues as pitch, timber, and image specificity as well as the overall accuracy of the soundstage. Now, my normal “reference” DAC is a Schiit Yggdrasil v.2 and it sounds generally better than most DACs in it’s price range, but the Hugo 2 is more expensive and with its almost 50,000 filter coefficients (taps), it should have vastly better performance than the Yggy. Really? frequency response graphs, CSD waterfall plots, subjective gear reviews.

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