Chord 2Go & 2Yu Wired/Wireless Network streamer and S/PDIF adaptor - Official thread

[ubs28]

So which app is best? Which can stream high rez Tidal and Qobuz on the go?

Mconnect for streaming Tidal and Qobuz.

 

[supervisor]

So which app is best? Which can stream high rez Tidal and Qobuz on the go?

MConnect. but you will be using your cellular data.

 

[Feedbacker]

Does anyone notice the iPhone Tidal app adding distortion? Tidal playback from mconnect seems much clearer. It is also clearer listening to the Tidal app direct from the iPhone's output. A head scratch moment.

 

[TKpurple]

Does anyone notice the iPhone Tidal app adding distortion? Tidal playback from mconnect seems much clearer. It is also clearer listening to the Tidal app direct from the iPhone's output. A head scratch moment.

Is it not airplay inferior quality than DLNA from mconnect? At least it’s my impression.

 

[HONEYBOY]

All this talk on the third party apps is making me wanna build one. Is there any interest in an open source project?

 

[muski]

Just tried a Roon Bridged Ethernet setup with the 2Go and I'm really liking it—even more natural detail against such a black background.

(The MacBook Pro is running the Roon Server and the Ethernet port is bridged over the Wifi port. The dongle is a USB-C to ethernet adapter. On a Mac, go to System Preferences->Sharing and turn on Internet Sharing and set it up as below. There's no special setup required for Roon—though I had to temporarily deauthorize my ROCK NUC server.)

It's perhaps an odd use case, but the sound is great. With Hugo2Go the whole setup is running off batteries

 

[Feedbacker]

Is it not airplay inferior quality than DLNA from mconnect? At least it’s my impression.

It could be. I also have a Poly and the Tidal app doesn’t seem to do the same on that.

 

[pjw241142]

Just tried a Roon Bridged Ethernet setup with the 2Go and I'm really liking it—even more natural detail against such a black background.



(The MacBook Pro is running the Roon Server and the Ethernet port is bridged over the Wifi port. The dongle is a USB-C to ethernet adapter. On a Mac, go to System Preferences->Sharing and turn on Internet Sharing and set it up as below. There's no special setup required for Roon—though I had to temporarily deauthorize my ROCK NUC server.)



It's perhaps an odd use case, but the sound is great. With Hugo2Go the whole setup is running off batteries

That looks like a very elegant solution - how does Roon => WIFI => Ethernet => 2go sound vs the SD Card?

 

[Peter Hyatt]

After 3 days of desktop mode, it’s showing 2Go battery at 0.

??

 

[supervisor]

I think you always need to charge after desktop mode

 

[Doody]

After 3 days of desktop mode, it’s showing 2Go battery at 0.

??

It's showing zero or it is in fact out of power? If you pull the power plug, does 2go shut off due to lack of power? I seem to recall a post earlier in the thread that discussed a faulty power readout?

Doody

 

[Peter Hyatt]

It's showing zero or it is in fact out of power? If you pull the power plug, does 2go shut off due to lack of power? I seem to recall a post earlier in the thread that discussed a faulty power readout?

Doody

No, it’s gotower.

I’m going to separate 2Go and charge it again

anyone using desktop mode?

 

[Doody]

No, it’s gotower.

I’m going to separate 2Go and charge it again

anyone using desktop mode?

"gotower"?

I'm in desktop mode. Haven't had any issues. The lightning bolt is lit and says "Your 2Go battery is being charged." and the battery icon is lit and full and says "Your 2Go battery is 100% charged."

Doody

 

[ubs28]

TBF, Chord is kinda between a rock and a hard place here.

The guys who create successful DAPs have material staffs of firmware engineers and os engineers and application engineers. The customers clamor for streaming Tidal and Qobuz; for multiple SD cards; for casting those SD cards to other devices; for casting other devices to 2go; for playlists and blah blah blah. This is a bunch of work. Their hope was to use open protocols to make it all easy - but that ecosystem appears to be geek-heavy, so the results are not something my mother could use. It's possible they have some bugs too with 2go and GoFigure, but those are almost certainly fixable.

It's a messy spot. They could do something ultra simplistic, and half the customers will argue "my $250 DAP does ALL this stuff!" and they could do something wildly complex, and they'd have to hire a load of people and probably raise prices. They tried the middle ground and it's "working most of the time" which is something, albeit not optimal, as has been pointed out.

I know they learned a lot from Poly, and it appears 2go is less of a release mess than Poly, so that's something. I don't envy them their task here. Let's try to be patient!

Doody

By accident I ran into other streamers for a new project I have in mind.

A company similar to Chord (also similar amount of employees), who specializes in DAC’s and amplifiers also have a music streamer and they actually have a real app for their streamer. It appears you do not need a 3rd party app and music services like Tidal is also integrated into their app. Their app looks really polished also.

So I don’t see how Chord cannot create a real app.

But I am not expecting anything. I‘ll take it if they only fix the sound quality issues as I am pretty sure Chord will never release a real app (as this is something that we have been pushing for during the Chord Poly days).

 

[Malcyg]

No, it’s gotower.

I’m going to separate 2Go and charge it again

anyone using desktop mode?

I think it’s just a bug. I posted a few days back that, whilst in Desktop mode, the 2Go battery was showing as 0% in GoFigure. I disconnected the power and 2Go charge light was showing blue and 2Go operated just fine on battery. The app still showed 0% until I powered the H2Go unit down and re-started.