[podeschi]

I should say only difference I heard was in crossfeed

Podeschi, are you still finding the Blue Dragon USB Micro cable your preferred PC connector to the Hugo HD Micro port?
 
On a side note, do you think it worth while to use a high end USB cable for connection from an ADC to the PC?  I'm thinking no, because there is no analogue conversion once the digital information transfers thru the USB cable?  But I hear confliction accounts.

Yes the blue dragon is my favorite. I have the silver dragon and reach more often for the blue...smoother whereas the silver has some bite to it. I never thought a USB cable blue v silver v stock would matter ...but I do hear a difference.

 

[podeschi]

My domestic digital source is lossless files stored in a NAS into a Squeezebox Touch with a Teddy Pardo power-supply, and a Teddy Pardo USB to S/PDIF 192 kHz converter into the Hugo using coax input.

Amplification is a Naim reference system. Hugo line out RCAs into Naim pre-amp.

I use Harbeth speakers these days

Awesome setup!

 

[podeschi]

I remember the days when I was single,never bothered going the pub much and put my money into hifi,audio works from Manchester delivered my utopia speakers in these massive boxes,the blokes from audio works were stuck in traffic but the delivery bloke turned up,I was pretty big at the time all geared up and told him we can take them off the wagon don't wait for the lads from audio works,think he nearly had a heart attack helping me lift them off lol,we put them on the garden and ppl were walking past not knowing they just walked past one of the best ten speakers in the world at the time and only one of two in the country,they were reviewed in a hifi magazine as they went to the blokes house the one that I bought them from,audio works turned up an hour later and got the trolley and wheeled them into my house,they said I was the biggest hifi nut they ever came across lol,I had mezo utopia speakers on the rear lol and a stack of bryston 7 b mono blocks up to the ceiling,oh my God it was amazing for music and films,if when you die their is a place and time you can go back to its that day.What's that got to do with the Hugo you may ask,well absolutely nothing and if you wanna ban Me from this site then go ahead,we all real ppl just speaking our mind surely it's not a crime and let's face it the Mrs ain't interested.I've been kicking myself for the last few years now,I had a 40 grand mortgage and now I'm older and settled down Me and the Mrs have less to live on,my mortgage is 113 thousand now through spending so much on hifi but now I look back and think I had one hell of a time spending the money on hifi,yes I've got the rest of my life now to pay for it,could of been mortgage free now but hey life goes on and I do have regrets but if I had my life back i probably wouldn't change a thing

Thanks for sharing your story. That was fun to read about the speakers being delivered and bryston amps stacked to the ceiling.

 

[warrior1975]

Thanks for sharing your story. That was fun to read about the speakers being delivered and bryston amps stacked to the ceiling.

Great story for sure... totally relate. You only go through life once, enjoy it while you can.

 

[Audiowood]

volume comparison is fairly easy with the Hugo because of the subtle color changes on the digital control.

There is quite a lot of volume play in a single color. It could be the edge or the beginning of color range and differences is huge with iem

 

[Hifi Nutter]

If their is a betty Ford for hifi addiction then let me know because I'm in

 

[Hifi Nutter]

The saying goes you work to live or live to work or work to listen to top hifi

 

[Rob Watts]

There is quite a lot of volume play in a single color. It could be the edge or the beginning of color range and differences is huge with iem

There are 3 changes in volume per colour, each step is 1dB. It was difficult deciding upon a big range to cover lots of headphones, plus having a clearly defined colour (not too many shades that you can't distinguish). I think it's about right given the constraints.  

 

[Clemmaster]

Is it a linear dB scale or some kind of exponential, that offers more precision for iems?

 

[lovethatsound]

Hi guys,when I been using the hugo with my hd800,ive also been using the hdvd 800 amp with the balance cable,but 2day I thought I'd just use Hugo.i know rob watts thinks this is the best way 2 hear the hugo, all I can say is they both sound amazing.2mor I will test both ways with 1 peace of music and see which 1 is the best.

 

[Rob Watts]

Its dB, so two colours is doubling or halving output, so you have same resolution irrespective of headphone sensitivity.

 

[seeteeyou]

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[Racy]

In the history of Chinese-designed DAPs, there is but one constant - flaky UIs. Throw in some nasty firmware blunders and its a rollercoaster ride. Full marks to Fiio for continuing to provide incredible VFM, but I'm going to endure the 90-minute trip to Bangkok next week in the hopes of picking this up:

http://www.jetliveaudio.com/product/1310002/Sony%20NWZ-ZX1.html

Maybe you can get two !

 

[bmichels]

May be someone can help: HUGO connected to my MacBook Pro can play songs coming from iTUNE as well as from any SAFARI applications, but... not from CHROME ! Any idea why CHROME do not output to the HUGO ?

 

[podeschi]

Received the 2tb seagate wireless plus today. What format files are required to stream 192 files? It isn't recognizing aif files thru CCK into HD USB. If I change the extension to aiff then it worked sporadically. Any advice?