I see no scorn and no assumptions. I’ve mostly quoted the Chord literature, I’ve been a bit confused about some things, Shadders has said nice things about the value for money of the 2Yu and increased my understanding of the things I was confused about, and as I’m a DAVE/M Scaler owner I’m quite likely to give it a shot. Where’s the ridicule? You and I think at least one other DAVE owner were getting excited about a 3rd party reclocker/regenerator. Aren’t you interested in a Chord solution that appears to do more at a fifth of the price? I may well be. I am interested in the 2Go as well, though I’d prefer a single box 2Go/2yu solution without SD cards for static use at home. What on earth is ridiculing or scornful about that?
Defensive, precious and ad hom all in one. Bravo.
USB can sound different. Jitter isn’t the issue here though with modern asynchronous front-ends. It is common-mode & RF noise, “computer and networking noise” in this case, which comprise the potential issues.
Regarding USB audibility (outside of computer hardware and software issues), this IMHO only occurs when the DAC’s USB front end is not properly isolated and filtered (as well as being isolated inside the unit). This is very important, because you don’t want the USB front-end spewing noise and distortion into the DAC circuits.
So, I think those filter dongle thingies (probably common-mode filters) would help more in such cases.
Looking a bit more carefully at the power supply aspects of it, it has a micro-usb input. But when it is connected to the 2Go streamer, this micro-USB input is used by the micro-USB output of the 2Go. The 2Go can be run from its own internal battery, so it looks like the whole 2Go/2Yu package can be run from the internal battery in the 2Go. I would have thought that if you are looking for an inherently quiet source, this combination should be on your list if you have the money. No noisy HDDs or SSDs, no heavy Roon Core processor, battery powered ..
Here’s a review of a Melco server that shows that it produces measurably substantially less jitter than a laptop into a Chord Mojo and an iFIAudio iDSD. I think Paul Miller has made similar measurements with the Roon Nucleus and the Project Stream Box S2 Ultra. The John Westlake designed Project box is in some ways similar to the Chord package - its a Roon endpoint with nothing heavy duty going on inside it, but it does claim to have detoxed USB.
Benchmark DAC1.
It’s quite possible. The review I posted a link to earlier show that the performance of a Mojo via USB can be substantially improved by using a different source than a PC. But it would all depend on the PC etc. Alternatively you could add a Poly your Mojo and stream to them wirelessly, avoiding USB and PC connections entirely.Does that mean when running a Mojo from e.g. a PC USB port it might benefit from a USB reclocking thingy bob? Just asking for a friend ...
