Chord Mojo(1) DAC-amp ☆★►FAQ in 3rd post!◄★☆

[tomwoo]

You're using a $600 Fiio X7 strictly as a transport? That's quite a pricey setup you have there.

Trying to find a decent portable amp for HD800...Any suggestions?

 

[Mython]

Could anyone recommend a cable to connect FiiO X7 and Mojo? Thanks! (The Moon Audio one is too expensive)

 
 
Have you looked at the Uranus one, linked in post #3?

 

[Mython]

Here: http://www.lelong.com.my/uranus-silver-plated-6n-occ-3-5mm-to-3-5mm-coaxial-cable-starspicker-I2449751C-2007-01-Sale-I.htm
 
Be careful to choose the correct option, for Fiio!

 

[NaiveSound]

I thought thr extension module was the SD card reader, would sure love to replace my dx80 as Transport immediately

 

[Mojo ideas]

I thought thr extension module was the SD card reader, would sure love to replace my dx80 as Transport immediately

The first extension module is the simple one the next one will be much more than just an SD reader but sorry but it won't be ready this year it's far too complex to be a short development project.

 

[howdy]

The first extension module is the simple one the next one will be much more than just an SD reader but sorry but it won't be ready this year it's far too complex to be a short development project.

Have you decided on an approximate price for this extender?

 

[ThatPhil]

I'm sure im not the only one who wishes that it was just an SD reader.

 

[tretneo]

  I'm sure im not the only one who wishes that it was just an SD reader.

 
I'm hoping it is an SD reader/player with an accompanying iOS/Android app to view the library, handle queues/playlists and of course control playback (app connectivity via bluetooth/wifi). That would pretty much be a DAP replacement end game for me.
 
Edit: Perhaps also Airplay/DLNA for streaming Spotify/Tidal etc. as well

 

[canali]

   
I'm hoping it is an SD reader/player with an accompanying iOS/Android app to view the library, handle queues/playlists and of course control playback (app connectivity via bluetooth/wifi). That would pretty much be a DAP replacement end game for me.
 
Edit: Perhaps also Airplay/DLNA for streaming Spotify/Tidal etc. as well

it's not...has been made very clear already...it is just an extender plate...more sophisticated versions coming out in the new yr.
per price the last i'd read on here was $49 (est at the time)..whether that is US or UK i can't recall.

 

[tretneo]

  it's not...has been made very clear already...it is just an extender plate...more sophisticated versions coming out in the new yr.
per price the last i'd read on here was $49 (est at the time)..whether that is US or UK i can't recall.

 
Yeah, understood the soon-to-be-released module will be an extender plate. I was referring to the future/planned SD card reader module. Hopefully it will be controlled via smart phone rather than some sort of physical button layout.

 

[canali]

   
Yeah, understood the soon-to-be-released module will be an extender plate. I was referring to the future/planned SD card reader module. Hopefully it will be controlled via smart phone rather than some sort of physical button layout.

thanks...gotcha' ... Darko talked about the latter version, too....should be quite something when they've finished
with it in the coming months....seems like a platform for a host of options/add ons.
http://www.digitalaudioreview.net/2016/03/chord-electronics-extend-mojo-at-canjam-socal-2016/

 

[NaiveSound]

Much more than an SD reader..... That just turns me on

 

[Soundizer]

I will get the Chord Mojo phone, but that's me dreaming.

 

[tretneo]

  thanks...gotcha' ... darko talked about the latter version too....should be quite something when they've finished
seems like a platform for a host of options/add ons.
http://www.digitalaudioreview.net/2016/03/chord-electronics-extend-mojo-at-canjam-socal-2016/

 
Awesome, thanks for the link. Excited to see this happen!

 

[canali]

 
as always, when i embolden it's not to scream or be disrespectful:
instead  it's just have certain points stand out in my often longer posts.
 
feel free to skip to songs and video below while reading.
 
When I get the new module I'll anoit it with love by playing some music by one of Canada's top bands
 The Tragically Hip, who've  been around 32 yrs, and winner of 14 juno awards (basically our canadian grammys)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tragically_Hip
 
 
 
 52 yr old Hip lead singer Gord Downie has an incurable, terminal and aggressive brain cancer
 called glioblastoma..(hence the fedora he's wearing to cover up
the surgery he had to remove most of the brain tumour... but also to go own with some fashionable bang)
...he had 4 or so  different coloured Lamé  suits made up for the tour.  
Lamé ...so Elvis retro like!

 

each concert was immediately sold out...many tears of both gratitude and sadness
were shed at each one, by the fans in attendance according to many reports.
 

 
 

 
despite having the tumour removed during surgery 8 or so months ago, then followed by many bouts of chemo and radiation therapy,
the cancer came back (screw** CANCER!)
 
nonetheless, and given their new album 'the man in machine poem' had come out 
'Downie  the band decided to courageously stay on course and launch a small, (and what many feel is their final farewell) tour across western/central /Canada
to say goodbye and thanks to their fans...it was recorded by our CBC (basically think BBC or ABC)
 
their final stop, a show in Kingston, Ontario (the band's hometown) happened just last weekend on Aug 20, and was watched by some
11.7 million fans across Canada (hell that is 1/3 of our population) with many public  venues across the country broadcasting it live, coast to coast....hope it will be released internationally shortly so
you can all see it...was bitter sweet watching Downie up there, giving it all he could, looking a bit frail, often having to rely on monitors for the words.
even our PM Justin Trudeau attended (as did Geddy Lee of Rush), among other VIPs in the music industry.
 
pic below: no, not the actual concert crowd but instead one  (of many) of the free venues for people to watch on a screen...believe its from Kingston.
 

 
 
Anyway, before watching the concert I wasn't a huge Hipster...sure i had their live CD and knew of some of their tunes, but didn't know their lineage in depth.
however, post concert, my perspective and respect and embrace of them has now done a 360, such that I just ordered some CDs and will (for the first time) download them.
 
so........in an attempt to try to turn on my UK, Aussie, Kiwi and southern (US) cousins, I have provided 4 of their classics
...listen a few times each and I dare you to not fall in love with them.
50 mission cap, courage, bobycaygeon....and then ' ahead by a century ', imo the last one being  kick-ass classic can stand up to anything out there.
 sure it starts out softly enough, acoustically/bluesy feeling to it...and then picks up steam with powerful rhythm guitar riffs and drumming to punch into your emotions and take you along for a fab ride lovely ride, as wonderfully ebuillient feeling as being in a convertible on a sunny day, driving a coastal highway without a worry in the world.
(see video at bottom).
 
50 mission cap  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-t8W4X8Obo&ab_channel=GordonYYZ
Courage  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOgFnO4EXRg&ab_channel=GordonYYZ
Bobcaygeon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6QDjDPRF5c&ab_channel=TheTragicallyHipVEVO
Ahead by a century;  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE2joQsWXJg&ab_channel=TheTragicallyHipVEVO
 
Note: in this hamilton ont aug 16th concert (so not the final kingston concert on aug 20th) 
 the final 'GOODBYE'  closing tune is 'Ahead by a century' ...it was wonderfully drawn out with some FAB guitar playing so Downie
could have time to 'say goodbye' to the crowd for the final time...very poignant. 
i could watch it 20 x cranked full and not tire of it.
 
Bless you, Gordie!...may you and all those
close to you have much TLC in the coming days ahead.
 
 
 
 
while I love Rush (as you all know) the Hip reaches into my core on a more emotional, visceral level..maybe it is because of Downie's situation, I don't know.
haven't figured it out yet.
 
lastly if you can see the CBC concert online somehow, get the tissues handy when Downie loses it during the
end of 'Grace, too' , already an intense song in itself.
you'll probably get equally gutted as he starts crying/screaming into the mic:
see if this link works, showing it:  http://indie88.com/watch-gord-downie-fights-back-tears-during-grace-too/
 you can just feel all that raw vulnerability, sadness and anger spill out, given the tragic hand dealt to him...you just want to reach out and hug the guy.

 
don't know if you have access outside of Canada...job droppingly raw.
 

 
 
 
below: Gord Downie meeting his friend, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.