As wrote before I never will use headphones and I don't need the portability of my Dac, so
these features on the Hugo2 is unnecessary for me.
If you only need a "Desktop" Dac, I think the price difference would be better spend on a
better streaming setup, And if it matters in my cause It did a lot LPS for both Dac and streaming device.
I have build my own so it will be a lot cheaper, but for my 2Qute is was a fine upgrade.
The two Dacs is not night and Day experience at all. I have listening to Hugo2 for at least 300+ hours and my own
2Qute for 1000+ hours. What i found is Hugo2 has slightly more details, which I discovered on complex music.
I was playing a 1969 recording of Mahler 3 symphony and I thought it was recorded in the late eighties. The separation
of the instruments was quite amazing and I liked the huge dynamics and the fine timing. After that I was playing Frank
Zappa "Sheik Yerbouti" from 1979, this really blow me away. These are both records which do not suffer from
the loudness compression which almost all new albums does.
Today I just repeated it on my 2Qute, and the switched back to the Hugo2 just too compare them again.
Timbre is a little bit more realistic better on the Hugo2, the 2Qute is more laid-back not as forward as the Hugo2. If you
like a "warmer" sound in my system i'll prefer the 2Qute, despite the filter settings on the Hugo2.
If I should rate them and this is just numbers I'll give a 10 to the Hugo2 and a 8.7 - 8.9 to the 2Qute, where a higher number
is better, just my humble opinion.
PS! In previous posts I have rated the 2qute as better than Hugo2 , but it really changed after my LPS upgrade. And as a lot have
wrote before try the ferrites on your cables, I have 10 on my USB cable it makes a difference.