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As the person responsible for the creation of this thread, let me assure you that I did not post it in the Portable Source Gear forum by accident.
1) All of you who think Mojo should be in the Portable Amps section are forgetting that there would be absolute mayhem with newcomers wondering why they can't amplify any of a hundred thousand potential analogue sources.
2) One could quite reasonably argue that Mojo is, above all else, primarily a DAC, especially since one can successfully feed a power-amp from Mojos analogue output (set to an appropriate level, of course)
3) Jude evidently considers DACs to be Source components, too!
4) The extraordinary advances in digital processing technology that lend Mojo (and Hugo) such great musicality are what utterly defines these ground-breaking products, and that is not in the area of amplification.
5) Chord were happy for Mojo to be posted here in the Portable Source Gear forum.
6) Mojo definitely is a source - it is a source of joy for thousands of music-lovers around the world!
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1) All of you who think Mojo should be in the Portable Amps section are forgetting that there would be absolute mayhem with newcomers wondering why they can't amplify any of a hundred thousand potential analogue sources.
2) One could quite reasonably argue that Mojo is, above all else, primarily a DAC, especially since one can successfully feed a power-amp from Mojos analogue output (set to an appropriate level, of course)
Mojo has an FPGA (which is digital logic only) a discrete DAC (turning digital signals to analogue via flip-flops and resistors) and a single output amplifier - and that is it.
Conventional DAC headphone amps use differential outputs and have two I to V converters (current to voltage), a differential to single ended converter, and an output amplifier. Wrapped up with that is a analogue filter. So that's a lot of passive components and four amplifiers in the signal path.
Because Mojo's FPGA has extensive digital filtering (at 2048 FS) and has a noise shaper that runs at a very high rate (104MHz) and uses a discrete DAC, I can keep the analogue section radically simpler, and this is one reason why Mojo is so transparent compared to all other DAC amps.
Rob
3) Jude evidently considers DACs to be Source components, too!
4) The extraordinary advances in digital processing technology that lend Mojo (and Hugo) such great musicality are what utterly defines these ground-breaking products, and that is not in the area of amplification.
5) Chord were happy for Mojo to be posted here in the Portable Source Gear forum.
6) Mojo definitely is a source - it is a source of joy for thousands of music-lovers around the world!
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