CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE

[audio_1]

Thanks. Any idea how many watts?

 

[audio_1]

Hugo M-scaler details are now on Chords web-site. It has "1 x galvanically isolated dual BNC (enables upscaling to the maximum resolution (768kHz from 96kHz data)" I wonder will this eliminate the need for ferrites? It even has DX volume controls so can be connected directly to the Pulse array amplifier.

 

[Triode User]

The MScaler core within the Blu2, was taking 10A @ 1V
So that is probably a good start point, for estimating how much the standalone version needs.

My Blu2 MScaler (on a not very accurate meter) consumes 13w in idle mode and 23w when fed a USB signal ie when the MScaler is processing. So if the Hugo MScaler consumes about the same then 23W at 15V is 1.5amps which is a bit more than the just the 10amps at 1V for the FPGA.

 

[AndrewOld]

Hugo M-scaler details are now on Chords web-site. It has "1 x galvanically isolated dual BNC (enables upscaling to the maximum resolution (768kHz from 96kHz data)" I wonder will this eliminate the need for ferrites? It even has DX controls so can be connected directly to the Pulse array amplifier.

I notice it also says “Auto video and Source selection”. How does it know to auto select video?

And it also says “When partnered with either of Chord Electronics’ 768kHz-capable dual-BNC-input DACs, the Hugo M Scaler sets an astonishing technical benchmark”. Is that right? Aren’t there more than two dual BNC input Chord DACS?

 

[miketlse]

I notice it also says “Auto video and Source selection”. How does it know to auto select video?

And it also says “When partnered with either of Chord Electronics’ 768kHz-capable dual-BNC-input DACs, the Hugo M Scaler sets an astonishing technical benchmark”. Is that right? Aren’t there more than two dual BNC input Chord DACS?

No mention of the Hugo2, which seems strange.

 

[ecwl]

I notice it also says “Auto video and Source selection”. How does it know to auto select video?

And it also says “When partnered with either of Chord Electronics’ 768kHz-capable dual-BNC-input DACs, the Hugo M Scaler sets an astonishing technical benchmark”. Is that right? Aren’t there more than two dual BNC input Chord DACS?

I think once you have set each input as to whether you want 1M taps or 2/3M taps, you won’t have to switch it again, unlike me flipping the Blu2 back switch all the time
Qutest, Hugo 2, Hugo TT2 and DAVE accepts dual BNC

 

[audio_1]

I notice it also says “Auto video and Source selection”. How does it know to auto select video?

And it also says “When partnered with either of Chord Electronics’ 768kHz-capable dual-BNC-input DACs, the Hugo M Scaler sets an astonishing technical benchmark”. Is that right? Aren’t there more than two dual BNC input Chord DACS?

They mustn't be counting the 1x 3.5mm Jack Coaxial 768kHz/32-bit Capable Input on the Mojo and Hugo.

 

[AndrewOld]

I think once you have set each input as to whether you want 1M taps or 2/3M taps, you won’t have to switch it again, unlike me flipping the Blu2 back switch all the time
Qutest, Hugo 2, Hugo TT2 and DAVE accepts dual BNC

OK. It’s a small point, but not so sure I would be entirely happy with auto input selection unless you can also force the input. You might say, be listening to some music but watching your tv waiting for a program to start. You’d want to control when you switched inputs.

 

[miketlse]

I think once you have set each input as to whether you want 1M taps or 2/3M taps, you won’t have to switch it again, unlike me flipping the Blu2 back switch all the time
Qutest, Hugo 2, Hugo TT2 and DAVE accepts dual BNC

But the chord page https://chordelectronics.co.uk/product/hugo-mscaler/ makes no mention of Hugo 2. Is Hugo 2 the poor relative that will only be able to reach 2/3M taps?

 

[ecwl]

OK. It’s a small point, but not so sure I would be entirely happy with auto input selection unless you can also force the input. You might say, be listening to some music but watching your tv waiting for a program to start. You’d want to control when you switched inputs.

Currently, I just stop playing the music from my USB device. Now, I’m cheap so I usually turn off the UltraRendu so it’ll switch to my video source automatically. Not sure how good the auto detection is since I just don’t push it that hard. Works for my listening habits every time.

 

[coopdog]

I was wondering what the benefit of the Dave over the Qutest would be if both are partnered with the new m-scaler?
Thanks in advance!

 

[AndrewOld]

I think I read when the Blu2 came out that as the Blu2 takes over the upsampling work from the DAVE a good portion of the DAVE is redundant once an M Scaler is added. If that is the case, is it imaginable that Chord could bring out a DAVE type DAC but minus the stuff that the M Scaler replaces, with no inputs other than the M Scaler, in an M Scaler type box, at a less high price point. Same argument applies to the HugoTT2 - the M Scaler takes over a good chunk of it's functionality so can does a variant which is DAC but no upsampler or inputs make sense?

 

[simorag]

Here is the first YouTube coverage:


Will order mine soon

 

[Crgreen]

Here is the first YouTube coverage:


Will order mine soon

Always good to know wot this geezer finks, and that he poops himself.

 

[AndrewOld]

If you take upsampling and taps out of the equation with the M Scaler, what is the effective difference between a Hugo TT2 and a DAVE? ie what does the DAVE have that the TT2 doesn’t and/or vice versa.

And is a DAC imaginable. say in a M Scaler case, that just does the DAC bit and leaves the unpsampling to the M Scaler? In other words no redundant cores doing upsampling, and no redundant inputs.