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Rob Watts reacted to LeeJB1970's post in the thread Hugo M Scaler by Chord Electronics - The Official Thread with Like.That's right. Not a cost effective performance gain though. You'll get that using the Bixpower BP90. It'll cost you a lot less than I...
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Rob Watts replied to the thread Chord Mojo 2 Thread ___ [product released January 31, 2022 -- starting on page 95 of thread].Hmm - that's not been my experience with optical over USB. Either it will make no difference (for battery powered sources that have low...
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Rob Watts reacted to GuiltyRocker's post in the thread Hugo M Scaler by Chord Electronics - The Official Thread with Like.Nope, that sounds like a really bad idea, just use the regular cable that comes with the unit.
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Rob Watts replied to the thread Chord Mojo 2 Thread ___ [product released January 31, 2022 -- starting on page 95 of thread].Why not? My wife blames me for everything that goes wrong in the World... Actually I like the idea. My only worry is that it will mean...
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Rob Watts replied to the thread CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE.That's likely to be extremely dangerous - you can't just replace the op-amps as the second order analogue noise shaper approach will...
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Rob Watts reacted to Mediahound's post in the thread Hugo M Scaler by Chord Electronics - The Official Thread with Like.Note that Rob Watts has stated if something digital sound darker when making a change, it's more accurate to the analog signal. If...
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Rob Watts replied to the thread Chord Mojo 2 Thread ___ [product released January 31, 2022 -- starting on page 95 of thread].Speaking as someone who has actually designed sample rate converters (SRC) for ADCs and - more importantly in this context - actually...
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Rob Watts replied to the thread CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE.Just to clarify - the initial prototypes of Dave had slightly worse harmonic distortion than the dCS Vivaldi - which was the lowest...
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Rob Watts replied to the thread Chord Mojo 2 Thread ___ [product released January 31, 2022 -- starting on page 95 of thread].The reason for 3v being Chord standard DAC OP is more historical. Going back to the 90's, it was common to use passive pre-amps (that is...
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Rob Watts replied to the thread Chord Mojo 2 Thread ___ [product released January 31, 2022 -- starting on page 95 of thread].No not a typo - it's just that some headphones are said to sound better with external headphone amps, in spite of the fact that Mojo...
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Rob Watts replied to the thread Chord Mojo 2 Thread ___ [product released January 31, 2022 -- starting on page 95 of thread].I used to think that Mojo, Mojo 2, Hugo and Hugo 2 all had a warm up time of around 10 minutes. But this observation was based on my...
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Rob Watts reacted to GuiltyRocker's post in the thread Hugo TT 2 by Chord Electronics - The Official Thread with Like.That's because you can have millions of taps, but if the windowing function and its variables are not up the to the task, then that's...
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Rob Watts replied to the thread Watts Up...?.It's been a bit crazy over Christmas and New Year, as I had a lot of hardware and coding testing to do, as I have a trip to Asia this...