[OK-Guy]

 
 
 
The Chord-Noble Tour is up & running at the Newport Beach Show - California, USA... here's a early photo of our set-up...

 
Noble IEM's & Chord Hugo's at the starting blocks, get down there for a chance of winning a superb pair of Noble N4's...

 

[estreeter]

Very nice, OK Guy - looks like a stand that will be very busy.
 
On a slight tangent to some of the above re how good CD-quality and iTunes downloads sound via Hugo, I'm still astounded by how good Youtube vids sound with this wunderkind. Having benched my Oppo in an electrical storm - no idea how long before I'll get it back - I shelled out a hundred bucks for a Philips BD player and I'm going to hook it to Hugo via coax to see if I can get anything resembling music from it. Some of you will recall a period on HF where people were doling out advice like 'just get a cheap DVD player for your transport and hook it up to the best DAC you can buy' - didnt take too long for people to realise that there was more to a good transport than the part number for the Sanyo/Philips/whatever drive mechanism. Still, I'm interested to see hear what Hugo does with such a humble source.
 
FWIW, I always get a kick out of this listing.
 
http://vasiltech.nm.ru/CD-Player-DAC-Transport.htm

 

[CosmicHolyGhost]

  Do you have the La Cie Fuel? That's the one that works with the Seagate media app. I use the Seagate 2TB Wireless Plus and it works great.
 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/seagate-media/id431912202?mt=8
 
The seagate media app will help you connect your ipad. It's a decent no frills media app and it's free.

Thanks! I am using La Cie Fuel 2TB because I cannot find 2TB Seagate wireless in Hong Kong. I currently use 8player as recommended here but I just tried seagate media and it could not play FLAC files?
I am thinking to use ipod touch instead of ipad mini to increase a bit more portability. I am hoping the battery life of ipod touch using wifi is decent.....

 

[Sam Edwards]

Glad the media app worked. I heard that it's easier to work with Apple lossless so I converted all of my flacs while copying to the drive. It didn't take much longer than copying.
 
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Thanks! I am using La Cie Fuel 2TB because I cannot find 2TB Seagate wireless in Hong Kong. I currently use 8player as recommended here but I just tried seagate media and it could not play FLAC files?
I am thinking to use ipod touch instead of ipad mini to increase a bit more portability. I am hoping the battery life of ipod touch using wifi is decent.....

 

[CosmicHolyGhost]

 

Just wondering if I need to buy another app to convert from FLAC to ALAC on Window 7?
 
Thanks!

 

[Sam Edwards]

I used a mac. There were free apps.

 

[ALRAINBOW]

Db poweramp .
Al

 

[Sam Edwards]

Keeps us posed on the ipod touch. I ordered the lighting cable to try the iphone 5. If I could use my phone that would be the handiest...

 

[ALRAINBOW]

My cypher labs dac needed a special USB to lighting cable to work does the Hugo need the same ??
Al

 

[CosmicHolyGhost]

My cypher labs dac needed a special USB to lighting cable to work does the Hugo need the same ??
Al

 
the USB one..

 

[ALRAINBOW]

So it's the same one then. Does the Hugo allow you to talk on the phone with it connected . All the other dacs that work with iPhones do not .
Al

 

[CosmicHolyGhost]

  Keeps us posed on the ipod touch. I ordered the lighting cable to try the iphone 5. If I could use my phone that would be the handiest...

will do

 

[CosmicHolyGhost]

So it's the same one then. Does the Hugo allow you to talk on the phone with it connected . All the other dacs that work with iPhones do not .
Al

Al
I only have ipad mini now...dont make me to talk to the ipad...they may send me back...

LoL

 

[ALRAINBOW]

Funny . Lol
Al

 

[GreenLeo]

So it's the same one then. Does the Hugo allow you to talk on the phone with it connected . All the other dacs that work with iPhones do not .
Al

The music when Hugo paired with Galaxy Note using BT. So you know that a call has arrived. May try Note3 later. Have no Iphone can cannot comment.