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Really want to upgrade my Mojo

I had an interesting afternoon today , i attached my Ifi amp to my main HiFi setup to see what a Linn Klimax katalyst Naim 52 would sound like through it .After several hours listening it was very good indeed , but to be honest i thought it was going to be mind-blowing better but not as good as i was expecting it to be o_O(id just like to say that No headphone setup ive heard to date outperforms my main Hifi setup)
Connecting the Ifi back up to the Hugo 2 tonight just sounds great and the more i listen to it , im really starting to like it
Next Sunday i will be auditioning the Mojo 2 and Qutest along side the Hugo 2 and the original Mojo
The only Dac i wish i could demo would probably be the original Hugo TT as from reading the reviews its a very revealing warm sounding analogue Dac which i would love to try but probably wont be able to unless i purchase blind
 
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chartz said:
I must say I don’t get those Chord contraptions. Plain ugly and very expensive. What do they do that others do not?
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You have been around hifi for many years I know, so what makes you call the Mojo at say £400 or Mojo 2 at £500 "very expensive"? It isn't cheap by many standards but "very expensive" is a very tall stretch in an industry where six figure examples of anything and everything including a simple interconnect are possible?

The mojo is based around an FPGA, these are an expensive way of making a product, also power hungry, however they have allowed a bespoke DAC implementation as opposed to a design based on an off the shelf chip. I believe it is British design and manufacture. All that makes it more £££ than yet another AKM based device built in China.

Why do they bother? Go Google an authoritative explanation from the Chord designer but a short version that has been through a Nobeone filter is: they build lossless volume control and (in Mojo 2) filters combined with a very long FIR reconstruction filter to provide theoretical fidelity beyond most others and allow them to use a very simple analogue output to boot. It is, I think, a unique proposition and one worthy of some admiration in the face of cheaper far east market dominance.

Doesn't mean you will like the price or the sound ;)

A very high quality engineered item offering battery powered portable DAC and headphone amplifier.

I hope that helps.
 
beammeup said:
Interesting combination - Roon to Poly connected to Mojo 1 - is it really that good? Compared to perhaps what in your previous experience of streaming?
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Yes it’s really good for my headphones (sen 660) but yet to compare to main system (Sonore ultrarendu with chord qutest) . The mojo is certainly better than Naim sn3 headphone amp.
 
Having had a little bit more time with the Mojo, the two things that stands out is freedom from 'grain' and glare, if that makes any sense and great PRAT. - Music just sounds 'right' to my ageing ears.

No, it does not completely change everything in a night and day way, things are more subtle than that but it is a very nice sounding 'package'. It also sounds very, very nice as main DAC in my system/s.

I have little to compare it with other than my integrated amplifiers headphone stages and the Macbook headphone out. As I sit often at my laptop it makes complete sense but whether similar sound quality can be obtained cheaper I don't know. It has enough power for the Sundara which is a bonus.

I may try Fiio's K7 but have a feeling to get better may involve looking above the Mojo 2's price which I don't really want to do.

Just as an add-on, after having had the Chord in the chain for a while I took it out last night and plugged the HP's in directly to the Macbook. When I said it was not a 'day and night' difference, it almost was. The sound lost a lot of body and refinement as well as punch/attack and that was with the Mojo 2's EQ disengaged/flat. Just shows what getting used to something can do

Based on my (limited) experience I would highly recommend this little box of tricks.

https://media.futureshop.co.uk/media/amasty/amfile/attach/TX1PuTNPGZyvZ6jproEKYe2EF5QeWg00.pdf
 
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Contemplated acquiring a Hugo TT but was put off by the battery replacement and the fact that it would be 7 years old. Listening to the Qutest again im really starting to enjoy it particularly in the mid-range and sound stage.
Long story short a new Qutest arrived this morning and i have ordered a AQ carbon Usb cable and Sbooster - so it will be an interesting view weeks
 
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