I agree wholeheartedly, but I would - I've been using USB audio from my Android for about two years now and for my use makes much more sense than getting a DAP. Granted my portable DAC/amps have not been in the same league as the Hugo of course, which of course now has me mulling over the Hugo as an option. The only caveat is that it *must* be able to be my desktop DAC too, and it's probably going up against the Master 7 there, and from what I'm reading the M7 is probably the better pairing for my HE-6 (the only headphone pairing I care about, and probably my only desktop headphone soon as I just never want to listen to my HD800 when I could be listening to the 6).
FWIW I'm using a 256gb SD card with my Note 3 via an SD-microSD adapter (and requisite case mod), so suffice to say I'm happy enough with my storage situation as far as my portable source goes.
OK, I hear you NZ, but then take a look at the consensus about neutrality. The HUGO appears to work very well with a large selection of top head gear. That means it is neutral (more or less) and requires no matching, one to the other. If you take a rather hotter-sounding headphone and a softer sounding DAC, you may be matching colorations - one to suit the other's shortcomings. In my view that's not the best path possible for coherent detail retrieval and soundstaging as one may affect the other. So you may want to reconsider your choice of headgear and at least take a long listen - I mean days, weeks to the alternatives presented here - and then make up your mind with properly-matched gear that requires no matching.
I want to make sure you all understand that I am no HUGO Fanboy all the way. Hardly. There are issues, I could improve its packaging, durability, construction and connection scheme a great deal, but I have little issue with its sound however, and that last is a rarity for me having grown up from the crib with music all around me every day, playing music and writing about it for decades. It is rare for me to give so much attention to any product, that is how revolutionary this one happens to be. It took me by surprise. All of us who have lived with it understand whereof I speak. Make no mistake, it's construction is good relative to others, but in this price class I could have made it bulletproof at little cost.
So far I'm also happy with the white 4-5" USB Chord includes in the package (though black would have been a better choice), I ordered another pair just in case I lose one; and too, the USB Audio Player PRO Android app with the caveat I had repeated: A MAC with Fidelia's FHX is significantly more transparent, detailed yet smoother, has substantially greater air and better dimensionality. As good as the HUGO may be with a DAP/phone, there's a whole 'nother level to be achieved when it is used as a desktop..
In fact I could in good conscience easily recommend desktop DAC users to go for the HuGo and save a lot of gelt in the bargain.
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EDIT: What I'm trying to say is that matching deals ONLY with tonal color. It will likely screw up soundspacing, dimensionality, layering and focus. These are inevitable as you are adding distortions and phase shifts into the mix. The ONLY matching me thinks you need with the HUGO are the headsets you like.
