[Amberlamps]

What kind of amps are you all using with Qutest ?

I'm thinking of getting a few things, one potential item is an amp for TT2, but I'm not 100% sure yet, but what are you all using with your Qutests ?

Cheers

 

[snatex]

What kind of amps are you all using with Qutest ?

I'm thinking of getting a few things, one potential item is an amp for TT2, but I'm not 100% sure yet, but what are you all using with your Qutests ?

Cheers

Violectric V280

 

[Amberlamps]

Violectric V280

Is that just a headphone amp or can speakers be hooked up to it also ?

I never really specified in my post, but I'm mainly looking at amp's to drive speakers.

Cheers

 

[Chop-Top]

I never really specified in my post, but I'm mainly looking at amp's to drive speakers.

Cheers

Naim NAP-250.2 and they sound great together!

 

[Deftone]

Is that just a headphone amp or can speakers be hooked up to it also ?

I never really specified in my post, but I'm mainly looking at amp's to drive speakers.

Cheers

Benchmark AHB2, 0.00026% distortion at 500 watts.

 

[Qute Beats]

Hope no one minds be posting this, but I've put my Qutest up for sale after upgrading to the Hugo TT2.
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/chord-electronics-qutest-for-sale.913096/

 

[kerisabe]

Hope no one minds be posting this, but I've put my Qutest up for sale after upgrading to the Hugo TT2.
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/chord-electronics-qutest-for-sale.913096/

Not at all. Congrats !

 

[Qute Beats]

Thanks, I loved the Qutest, but made the mistake(?) of demoing the TT2 and then kept thinking about it, so finally took the plunge. Both are fabulous pieces of kit at their respective price points.

 

[Ivodam]

What kind of amps are you all using with Qutest ?

I'm thinking of getting a few things, one potential item is an amp for TT2, but I'm not 100% sure yet, but what are you all using with your Qutests ?

Cheers

I am using my Qutest with a Moon preamplifier and then a Moon power amplifier, driving large Tannoy Glenair 15 floorstanders. It sounds marvelous. I have tried using the Qutest with a passive amplifier only for volume control plus the power amplifier, but it sounds a bit dull to me, so I dropped this configuration.
But the TT2 has got a nice amplification and volume control and balanced XLR outputs (which I strongly miss with the Qutest and hope to be added in a future modification), so there should be absolutely no problem hooking it up directly into the power amplifier.

 

[Zzt231gr]

What kind of amps are you all using with Qutest ?

I'm thinking of getting a few things, one potential item is an amp for TT2, but I'm not 100% sure yet, but what are you all using with your Qutests ?

Cheers

Exposure 3010S2 power with shunt type passive pre.

It is hugely transparent but that is not always good with old jazz recordings...

 

[Paul Bjernklo]

Benchmark AHB2, 0.00026% distortion at 500 watts.

The same for me with my Hugo 2, you want to preserve the low distortion and I have not seen a reasonably priced power amplifier with lower distortion. It is dead silent...

 

[Jon L]

A fall like that could easily snap that flimsy micro USB *tongue’ off. Wish it had a standard dc barrel power input...

My BIGGEST complaint with the Qutest, having nothing to do with sound quality, is that flimsy micro USB jack for power input. It's a piece of junk, and it does not even require a fall to go bad and become intermittent. If Chord is listening, please replace it with something more reliable

 

[GradoSound]

My BIGGEST complaint with the Qutest, having nothing to do with sound quality, is that flimsy micro USB jack for power input. It's a piece of junk, and it does not even require a fall to go bad and become intermittent. If Chord is listening, please replace it with something more reliable

I totally agree!

I have put some blue tack around the micro usb port just to help stop bending and/or detaching from the port. It's beyond me why it's done that way for a product costing close to $2K

 

[Jon L]

I totally agree!

I have put some blue tack around the micro usb port just to help stop bending and/or detaching from the port. It's beyond me why it's done that way for a product costing close to $2K

That blue tack must look pretty ghetto, but I may try that...

 

[miketlse]

[edited]
Taking an impartial engineers design viewpoint, there are two opposing approaches for dealing with users and sockets:

1. You allocate the full responsibility for protecting owners from themselves, to Chord, who then need to use full size USB sockets, or power cable sockets
2. Owners take 100% responsibility for their own gear, by ensuring that no excessive strain is placed on chord gear sockets

Several years of head-fi posts, have highlighted that not all owners can be trusted with Approach 2, so maybe Approach 1 is inevitable for future designs - simple to say, but there is an inevitable impact on circuit board layouts, component cost etc.