@yoyorast10 I definitely have empathy with you on this. I don't see that you are trolling. You'll have to decide if it is fully dealbreaking for you, and return it if so.
Neither do I accept the argument that you have the choice of pops and bangs. Or the Chord way and mute a second. Simply because there are other DACS that do neither, so there is a third choice.
It needs a wider perspective though I think. For purely listening to music DACs that don't do any muting or pops, has to be the preferred method. What they do with a change in sampling rate, is pause playback and then start when hardware syncronisation is complete. It takes about a second. They don't see any issue with playing consecutive tracks or manually skipping tracks. Perfect to me.
However how would that work if you fired up a PC game? Could it mean that audio would be a second out of sync, if you had to wait for hardware sync? It could only happen when you were listening to HD-audio, and then swithced to audio at 44.1KHz in a game. I have no idea how it would all work. I think a DAC working that way would catch up at any pause in audio.
Up to you then. I only offered up my ideas because I have been thinking about it. I think your case is worse though because you are losing a second on every track.
If you want to think of other free music players that do ASIO and WASAPI, I came across Winamp, AIMP3, and Winyl. You will have to see if they insert silence at the start of the album. I do not know if they will cause your Mojo to mutes the start of every track. I have not looked at them. I am still in JRiver trial.
It's all relevant though because if you have to buy JRiver, it pushes up the cost of having a Mojo. I think I need to buy a shielded USB cable too. Already JRiver and USB cable means potentially £100 on top of the Mojo. When I consider that I had a flawless Meridian Explorer with none of the above issues, I really do wonder. (Sound quality aside.) The principle is that if you need to spend £400 or £500 pounds, it should be right. (How many CD players would sell at this price if they did this?)
In my opinion, Chord have advertised it as Windows compatible. Therefor I think it should work flawlessly with the majority if music players, but it doesn't. However I have to repeat, what issues could happen if it paused for hardware syncing. I have never played HD-audio and then fired up a PC game so I don't know. Let alone done it where I coud see if the audio was a second out of sync.
Additionally be aware that if you can configure Foobar, the Mojo will work perfectly, and it's free.
Up to you, but good luck whatever you decide! Thank you for re-raising the issue as other newcomers can evaluate based on more and wider balanced opinions.