[miketlse]

Got it thanks. I sent Chord an email just now. I was wondering if anyone here ever saw this light. Maybe not?

I searched the Hugo 2 thread for 'blinking' and there are posts relating to white, but not blue. I presumed that implied that you would probably get a quicker reply from Chord.

 

[MSXX]

Got it thanks. I sent Chord an email just now. I was wondering if anyone here ever saw this light. Maybe not?

I have the same issue. And most times I just unplug the power og reconnect it again. The only real issue for me is that it "looses" its desktopmode. I have never got around to email chord about it so do share what their responds is. thanks!

 

[SteveHulk]

Looking at all these posts now and in the past I wonder if Chord has some problems with the way USB power works with devices connected "on the go" as opposed to the original USB idea that one device in a network is a master and the others slaves or peripherals.

In the original USB setups the master device is the one that has the USB A socket and the peripheral devices have the variants of the B socket.

In this scenario the master device supplies the power to the satellite devices that need it and the roles of the various devices in this regard are clear.

In the case of the 2go supplying USB power to charge the Hugo while at the same time receiving USB power to charge itself I would think there is quite a lot of scope for confusion. Add in to this the Hugo "intelligent desktop mode" and the confusion can only increase.

I say this because of my experience with the Mojo connected by a short USB cable to an old phone.

When the pair was not in use and when both were powered off it still seemed to me that the Mojo drained the phone battery. The only way to stop this happening was to disconnect the USB cable as well as powering the devices down.

This did strike me as odd at the time.

 

[Mojo ideas]

Yes that is what seems to be happening. I wonder what we can do to prevent the 2go from discharging the Hugo 2 battery when we place the Hugo 2 in standby mode.. I’m powering the 2go down manually with the charger connected to see if the Hugo 2 battery charges.

 

[Mojo ideas]

I’m sorry Vo obgyn This can’t happen 2go cannot discharge Hugo2
Problems associated with one of the two paired units not charging are invariably caused by customers not using a charger with a sufficiently high current output the charger we have provided does have a high enough output current.

 

[xmitHIFI]

I’m sorry Vo obgyn This can’t happen 2go cannot discharge Hugo2
Problems associated with one of the two paired units not charging are invariably caused by customers not using a charger with a sufficiently high current output the charger we have provided does have a high enough output current.

I did use the standard hugo adapter; is this enough? what is the minimum requirement for charging both units? i do have a new hugo2 and a new 2go with 2go running until the batteries are empty; the hugo2 batteries are still charged.

 

[vo_obgyn]

I’m sorry Vo obgyn This can’t happen 2go cannot discharge Hugo2
Problems associated with one of the two paired units not charging are invariably caused by customers not using a charger with a sufficiently high current output the charger we have provided does have a high enough output current.

Thank you. According to the manual, the 2go is supposed to power off (after 20 seconds) when the Hugo 2 is powered off. However, my 2go doesn’t power off like the above. Is this normal behavior, I’m wondering?

 

[Currawong]

I could be wrong, but the 2go only powers off after the Hugo 2 if not connected to a charger.

 

[vo_obgyn]

I could be wrong, but the 2go only powers off after the Hugo 2 if not connected to a charger.

Thanks. The 2go must stay on when connected to a charger even when the Hugo 2 is powered off, I’m thinking.

 

[Currawong]

I finally finished a review of the 2go. It'll be nothing new to people who already have one, but I did try and cover everything I could.

 

[vo_obgyn]

I finally finished a review of the 2go. It'll be nothing new to people who already have one, but I did try and cover everything I could.

Thanks for your review. I was wondering, do you ever use the Hugo 2 3V RMS line level out? I’m using my line level out to drive my tubed headphone amplifier. Is this a reasonable use of the line level out in your opinion? I ask because I have heard that it would be better to turn on the bit perfect/DSD button in GoFigure and use the Hugo 2 volume control instead of the headphone amp volume control to listen to music when using Roon. Is this correct?

 

[xmitHIFI]

I could be wrong, but the 2go only powers off after the Hugo 2 if not connected to a charger.

exactly this is, what i did tested and i can confirm this!

 

[miketlse]

exactly this is, what i did tested and i can confirm this!

So that would mean that if you are using the Hugo2 in desktop mode, that the 2Go never switches off.

 

[xmitHIFI]

So that would mean that if you are using the Hugo2 in desktop mode, that the 2Go never switches off.

thats what i did test. still i am searching a way to switch off the 2go. i do not know how to do this. perhaps @Mojo ideas can give some input to it.

 

[miketlse]

thats what i did test. still i am searching a way to switch off the 2go. i do not know how to do this. perhaps @Mojo ideas can give some input to it.

@Matt Bartlett is more likely to be able to answer technical questions for streamers. @Mojo ideas is the designer for the analogue amps etc.