martyn73
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I've just got a Hugo and I'm struggling to tell the difference with the Mojo. The Mojo's presentation of 24bit tracks from Tidal Hifi is very slightly warmer than the Hugo. The Hugo is therefore less forgiving of sibilance but in head-fi parlance more 'revealing' despite its 2014 technology.
The Hugo does not get as hot for desktop use as Mojo which for the moment is my main use, but my reservation about the Hugo is that it doesn't natively play DSD tracks (or am I mistaken?) without conversion to PCM.
It's not clear where Chord is placing the Mojo; if it's performance is nearly indistinguishable (as Chord have explained to me) from the Hugo why should anyone pay £1000 more for the Hugo if the device is going to be connected to a PC via USB? Perhaps Chord will release a new Hugo with a better battery and an on/off switch that doesn't look like a naff cast off from a secondary school physics experiment.
The Hugo does not get as hot for desktop use as Mojo which for the moment is my main use, but my reservation about the Hugo is that it doesn't natively play DSD tracks (or am I mistaken?) without conversion to PCM.
It's not clear where Chord is placing the Mojo; if it's performance is nearly indistinguishable (as Chord have explained to me) from the Hugo why should anyone pay £1000 more for the Hugo if the device is going to be connected to a PC via USB? Perhaps Chord will release a new Hugo with a better battery and an on/off switch that doesn't look like a naff cast off from a secondary school physics experiment.