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

Dec 23, 2016 at 12:41 PM Post #27,781 of 42,916
huwge said:
 
No - have only charged with the PowerPort, Mojo is always used standalone - to date only with AK320 and now Mac, but I have that on continuous play at the moment to try and drain the Mojo battery before attempting a recharge to see whether the battery needed to go through a full power cycle before functioning optimally.
 
Yesterday, charged battery - played a few tracks, fell asleep listening to an album woke up and Mojo had powered off. Listened to another album, left Mojo on but the lights went out after roughly 5 mins, battery light had been showing blue. Today, just turned the Mojo on with nothing connected and after 5 minutes it had powered down. At the moment, am two Acts into Don Giovanni and battery light is still green.
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Is this happening with no external power source connected?
 
Dec 23, 2016 at 1:26 PM Post #27,785 of 42,916
deftone said:
Have another listen, it's all In your head. Mojo is always running on "battery only mode"
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This was happened when I forgot that I had leaved charger plunged in.
I listened music, and recognized that vocal sounded dirty and destroyed.
Then I checked Mojo and detected power USB was plugged in.
When I unplugged power USB, vocal became clean and free of distortions.
 
I also like more optical connection compared to coaxial, because optical sounds cleaner.
 
Dec 23, 2016 at 2:31 PM Post #27,786 of 42,916
alexb73 said:
This was happened when I forgot that I had leaved charger plunged in.
I listened music, and recognized that vocal sounded dirty and destroyed.
Then I checked Mojo and detected power USB was plugged in.
When I unplugged power USB, vocal became clean and free of distortions.

I also like more optical connection compared to coaxial, because optical sounds cleaner.
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Then you have a faulty unit get a replacement
 
Dec 23, 2016 at 4:41 PM Post #27,787 of 42,916
deftone said:
Then you have a faulty unit get a replacement
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It works absolutely correct. Yes, battery shunts power supply, but it can't filter all noise from it.
I was wondered if my Mojo wasn't sensitive to the power supply!
 
Dec 23, 2016 at 4:57 PM Post #27,788 of 42,916
No if you're getting high amounts of distortion while charging the mojo then something is wrong with the unit. It does not work absolutely correct, mojo does not benefit to "clean power" there is no difference in sound because it is never using power from the wall. You can leave mojo plugged in 24/7 it will sound the same.
 
Dec 23, 2016 at 5:07 PM Post #27,789 of 42,916
Interesting article by Computer Audiophile about using a Pixel phone as a hi res player and the limitations that currently exist.
 
Dec 23, 2016 at 5:16 PM Post #27,790 of 42,916
jwbrent said:
  Interesting article by Computer Audiophile about using a Pixel phone as a hi res player and the limitations that currently exist.
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What so few people seem to understand is that not only are phonecalls, texts and web-browsing not the primary function of a smartphone (regardless of operating system), but neither is audio, even if the manufacturer claims to have invested a lot of time on the audio subsystem.
 
The primary purpose of a smartphone is to surveil its owner.
 
Is it any wonder audiophile smartphone users get irked by the shortcomings they have to find workarounds to? LOL
 
 
Still, if one understands the workarounds, it's clear they can function as a great portable solution for audiophiles, whatever else they may be used for.
 
Dec 23, 2016 at 9:49 PM Post #27,792 of 42,916
samuel snoopy said:
This thread grows too fast, is it the most of any hifi forum in this planet?
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Until January 5th, maybe...
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www.head-fi.org/t/829906/chord-electronics-ces-launch-extravaganza
 
 
 
P.S. everyone please feel free to make your best guesses in the above thread
 
 
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Dec 23, 2016 at 10:01 PM Post #27,793 of 42,916
Puzzle.
 
I have an oldish Linux netbook. (It plays FLAC files though.) I have tired attaching Mojo to it, but no sound.
 
I thought Linux did not need drivers. However this is a highly cut down version of Linux, so might not have similar USB DAC functionality. (I looked on Chord website and no Linux drivers that I could try anyway.)
 
I have a copy of Windows XP ULCPC, which means netbook lite version. I don't know if it will fit on the tiny SSD drive on the netbook though. Then the Chord Mojo driver might not install on XP anyway.
 
Should I just give up, or does anyone know the solution, or have ideas please?
 
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