Another vibrapod user here. Have been using them on everything for 20+ years.

300 to 500 cycles, I guess. That's for the full discharge to full recharge cycles, but in reality we seldomly do the full discharge/charge. See the paper below: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Panasonic-NCR18650B-lifespan-characteristics_fig1_315861211

I highly doubt that. They market it as a CPAP machine battery. CPAP Expo maybe😂

Use the unregulated port2, and let Mscaler does the regulation. Rob mentioned Mscaler takes 9-15v and regulates down to 5v. DO NOT USE >15V. IT WILL DAMAGE Mscaler. This is the one I use: https://www.bixpower.com/product-p/bat-bp90-12v.htm

Yes, Bixpower is amazing. It is the best accessary upgrade I have for decades. Now, I need to find an unregulated 5v battery source for my 2Go2Yu. Looks like NiMH is the only way, but it is too inconvenient.

I would not say my Chord components are running in complete stock form. They are actually powered by separated batteries. I am fine with mod if necessary. My old CD-player/DAC has a high jitter SDPIF receiver, and it got replaced with a better clock and receiver chip. I just don't feel the...

I have no experience with re-clocker. I just post what Rob said. But, based on my experience/listening tests with power supplies, I fully believe him. I used to be a LPS guy, but after I did the test (you can search my previous posts), I found the stock PS sounds closer than a unregulated...

Source jitter doesn't matter on Chord DAC. RF noise is another story. From Rob: Rob' comment on re-clocker:

I leave mine on all the time unless it is a hot day or charging it from red. For battery life, see my older post: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/chord-electronics-hugo-2-the-official-thread.831345/post-17215959

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I don't know. Maybe the construction and the materials used in those cables combining with the characteristics of those IEMs' drivers make it easier to pick up the 2.4GHz Wifi noise. It is just a wild guess. Otherwise, I cannot explain why my other cheap IEMs that have similar sensitivity do...

@MarkParity, that's what Ed from Chord suggested -- tried another 2Go and Hugo2. I did tested on 3 different Hugo2s (2 faulty Hugo2 for other issues. 3rd is a charm), and all of them had the same issue. That was tested in 2021. At that time, my dealer did not have another 2Go for me to test...

Rob said, "It gets filtered by an improved DSD filter to 705.6 kHz PCM. Then Hugo 2 treats it exactly the same as regular PCM." "It" was referred to DSD. It means DSD gets filtered by a DSD filter, and then the output from that filter is 705.6 KHz PCM. The next stage is a 49K taps WTA1 16fs...

We were not talking about native DSD vs DoP. We were talking about DSD process in Hugo2. Since now you bring DoP in to the discussion, below is the explanation from Rob: Back to the DSD to PCM on Hugo2, Rob specifically said DSD gets filtered to 705.6KHz PCM:

Need to spend 5 to 10 minutes adjustment time, every time I put on Stealth. I thought I had an odd head shape 😂. Now, I see. It is a common problem. Anyway, I really love the Stealth. With crossfeed, they really sound like speakers. They actually beat my B&W Signature 805s in terms of...