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

[bluenight]

Slightly rolled off of neutral, touch warm, very natural sound. Your amp can only add a flavour to this.

Sounds nice, thanks.
How about the detail retrieval?

 

[GreenBow]

Please any help with Mojo and Steinberg Cubase.

Firstly I can not get Cubase to make any sound using the Chord driver. That's not so much an issue because I can use the Generic ASIO driver with Cubase.

However I am also getting quite a lot of pops and clicks. (EDIT: A lot really, mostly when playing parts repeatedly, monitoring short passages.

Does anyone have any suggestions please? I wish the Chord driver would work really I guess. I will look at it again myself and secondly see if there is a setting I can change to reduce clicks. There my be something for this, like latency or something.

I did read however that 75% of home studio users use the Chord Hugo. I suspect they do not suffer clicks. Or they put up with them, for the clarity of the Hugo in mixing. Anyway I am hoping that the Hugo is click free in Cubase. Also hoping if that Hugo is click free, that the Hugo2 is also click free. Rather than taking after the Mojo I mean, (as I don't know what's comparative).

Need to add that clicks and pops are ore common when stopping and stating a lot. Not meaning at the start point or stop point, which click anyway. Just that when playing short parts consistently, playback is much more likely to suffer clicks. ... Whereas if I play a whole piece through in Cubase I experience far less clicks, and maybe only one.

 

[turkayguner]

Need to add that clicks and pops are ore common when stopping and stating a lot. Not meaning at the start point or stop point, which click anyway. Just that when playing short parts consistently, playback is much more likely to suffer clicks. ... Whereas if I play a whole piece through in Cubase I experience far less clicks, and maybe only one.

Do you have the proper ASIO driver for Mojo?

If yes, you can try to increase buffer size in Cubase.

If no, it is all about drivers. You need to install the correct ASIO driver supplied by Chord.

 

[Cassadian]

I got jipped by Amazon. They cancelled the order on my T1's at the last moment and they said they couldn't fulfill my order at the sale price because the deal had expired. Man. Looks like I won't be listening to this after all. Otherwise I would've posted impressions today. Well looks like I have the Mojo and no headphones to listen to. LOL. *facepalm*

 

[turkayguner]

Recently I modded my mojo, it sounds even better to my ears,

What did you gain with that mod?

 

[kevindiu]

What did you gain with that mod?

Background hiss is less, better dynamic.

 

[John Wellman]

I've been trying to sift through the charging noise issues in this thread and was hoping someone could lay out a quick summary for me. In other words, when do you start to worry about the charging noises?

Context: I just bought a used Mojo with receipt from a local dealer dated 3-4 months old. 3 days without issues then all of a sudden today I've been having all manor of strange noises while charging. First a ticking every 10 seconds for 1-2 seconds while pulled into a 1A USB wall charger with about a 1 meter cable. I thought this might be down to a chord issue, so I swapped cords and the ticking seemed to subside.

About 1 hour later, stock cable plugged into a 1A iPhone wall charger: a long (minutes) whining sound starts coming out of the DAC like its full of hot bubbly air slowly escaping. I plugged the charger back into the computer rather than the wall charger and the whining started slowing over a minute or two until it was back to quiet.

Seems like the whine goes away when turned on. It seems to me like it will charge normally till it should be full then it won't turn off - it just whines and wheezes.

Chord support is telling me the noise is either i) normal or ii) related to a bad cable. I'm using the one provided. It isn't an issue all the time.

What would the community recommend here?

 

[joshnor713]

I got jipped by Amazon. They cancelled the order on my T1's at the last moment and they said they couldn't fulfill my order at the sale price because the deal had expired. Man. Looks like I won't be listening to this after all. Otherwise I would've posted impressions today. Well looks like I have the Mojo and no headphones to listen to. LOL. *facepalm*

Why did they cancel? That's aggravating.

 

[Cassadian]

Why did they cancel? That's aggravating.

They said there was an availability issue. I was skeptical when my item hadn't shipped the night before it was expected. I talked to customer service and they said there's nothing that they could do. Now I have a Mojo powering 50 dollar headphones. Hahahaha.

 

[Slaphead]

They said there was an availability issue. I was skeptical when my item hadn't shipped the night before it was expected. I talked to customer service and they said there's nothing that they could do. Now I have a Mojo powering 50 dollar headphones. Hahahaha.

I don‘t know what price the T1 Gen. 2 was being offered to you for, but if the standard price is too high then you could console yourself with a pair of DT1990 Pros. They are very good with the Mojo.

Yeah I know, I‘m beginning to sound like a broken record here.

 

[bluenight]

mojo vs idsd bl: how close are they in sound quality? Been really liking idsd bl with hd 650 but cant keep it beacuse sound dropping isues with my tv which is my main usage area.

 

[supervisor]

They said there was an availability issue. I was skeptical when my item hadn't shipped the night before it was expected. I talked to customer service and they said there's nothing that they could do. Now I have a Mojo powering 50 dollar headphones. Hahahaha.

get a Focal Elear

 

[ATau]

Background hiss is less, better dynamic.

Lower noise floor would be awesome! Can you tell us more about your mod?

 

[AndrewH13]

I don‘t know what price the T1 Gen. 2 was being offered to you for, but if the standard price is too high then you could console yourself with a pair of DT1990 Pros. They are very good with the Mojo.

Yeah I know, I‘m beginning to sound like a broken record here.

When Chord tour sent out the TT, they supplied Beyer T90s which sounded way above their price.

 

[ceemsc]

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What would the community recommend here?

If the noise leaks intrusively into the audio; unplug from the charge while listening and then recharge when finished.