Hugo M Scaler by Chord Electronics - The Official Thread

[dawktah2]

Fireproof safe? do you have like 800 terabytes of music? just make a back up to a usb drive and keep it with you on your keys or something.

We use our Synology for everything including the music. Scanned irreplaceable items and documents etc. on the drive. Also, physical items go into safe. Odds of having a fire with children is higher than a break in. Then there's tornado alley...

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I understand your point and the technicalities. However, some people can’t tell the difference between 16/44.1 and 24/192 so it still depends on the individual ear.

I used a website a few years back that tested Golden Ears and I was able to hear difference.

He also said and I quote.


“I have some cable listening tests when I get home, but my initial tests are showing no changes with cables.”

So, if $5 sounds the same as $500, why buy the dearer one ?

I can understand if it was clothes, to look good, but a hidden wire that has no benefits except for lightening your wallet ?

By the time I get an mScaler you chaps will have sorted this out!

Well, reading "tight budget" in a statement referred to people who own a 18k stack of audio equipment caught me a bit off guard

If I am being honest, knowing my weaknesses, I am quite sure I will be splurging a horrendous amount of money on those BNC cables just to please my esthetic taste and my precious Chord gear, regardless they are actually needed or not for sound quality

More rational guys will act differently of course

I make my own cables and will be making BNC cables to connect my Chord Dave to the M Scaler. Using quality BNC plugs and Belden cable, 75ohm.

Making my own may be what I do. I can bling them @Phuca style!

 

[auricgoldfinger]

What cables are provided with th M-scaler? Is there such a thing as audiophile BNC cables for the M-scaler to DAVE? Can your digital media be fed to the M-scaler by both usb and Toslink optical??

Search the BluDave thread for posts by romaz and his discussion of Habst BNC cables. There is a difference between cables. The questions are whether your system is transparent enough to discern the improvement and how much you are willing to pay for the increased performance.

 

[Triode User]

Search the BluDave thread for posts by romaz and his discussion of Habst BNC cables. There is a difference between cables. The questions are whether your system is transparent enough to discern the improvement and how much you are willing to pay for the increased performance.

Jay at AudioBacon has just done a review of BNC cables.
https://audiobacon.net/2018/08/11/the-audiophiles-short-list-the-best-digital-coaxial-cables/

 

[auded33]

We use our Synology for everything including the music. Scanned irreplaceable items and documents etc. on the drive. Also, physical items go into safe. Odds of having a fire with children is higher than a break in. Then there's tornado alley...

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I used a website a few years back that tested Golden Ears and I was able to hear difference.



By the time I get an mScaler you chaps will have sorted this out!





Making my own may be what I do. I can bling them @Phuca style!

I use Canare plugs and Belden screened cable. Nothing bling about them just top quality.

 

[staticdynamo]

Is the quality of mini-stereo to BNC cable so important ? Mr. Rob Watts said he did not hear difference between his hand-made cable and 'giveaway' type cheap cable.
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/hug...-official-thread.885042/page-26#post-14406171
I am going to try cheap mini to RCA cable first. Then if I am not satisfied, I will go to Oyaide shop in Akihabara and buy cables and connectors and make the cable myself.

 

[Amberlamps]

The mscaler, what is the DX lights for, I did read something but I can’t quite remember what it was.

Does anybody know what DX is for ?

I seem to remember something about a digital amp, but I have no idea other than, its for future products or similar.

 

[Whazzzup]

Well that booked marked my way into blowing a load on BNC cables, one can always count on Head Fi members.

 

[Deftone]

He also said and I quote.


“I have some cable listening tests when I get home, but my initial tests are showing no changes with cables.”


So, if $5 sounds the same as $500, why buy the dearer one ?

I can understand if it was clothes, to look good, but a hidden wire that has no benefits except for lightening your wallet ?

Some people don’t actually like saving money, they will still buy £1,000 bnc cables.

 

[dontfeedphils]

Some people don’t actually like saving money, they will still buy £1,000 bnc cables.

Life is generally easier if you don't worry about what other people do with their money. Spend $10 on cables, spend $1,000. Who cares, not my money to decide.

 

[miketlse]

Some people don’t actually like saving money, they will still buy £1,000 bnc cables.

For some people, conspicuous consumption, is the name of the game.

 

[Deftone]

Don't mix up taps with sample rates! Upsampling by a factor of 16 is needed to create a low-pass filter with 1 million taps, whereas 8x upsampling only allows for a 500,000-taps filter. So it's not about the reproduction of extreme ultrasonics, but an anti-aliasing filter with the ability to preserve ultimate transient response in the audio band.

This is where a lot of people new to chord are getting mixed up, they come to the thread asking about why do they need ultrasonic 768khz but they don’t it’s all about them 1M taps and reconstruction of transients.

 

[Clive101]

Hold your horses for one moment.

The review with the BNC cables was with ChordBlu2 and not the stand alone Mscaler.

I am hoping that as Rob said the Mscaler will not need the ferrites, so hopefully no expensive BNC cables... if not.... Looks like I'm in for some Chord Sarum T BNC cables at 6 k.

I did try a few BNC cables but settled on the Chord Sarum T insane or what...!

 

[Rhamnetin]

All I know is I want to jump forward through time to when I have the Hugo TT 2 and M Scaler already.

 

[Deftone]

Yes, anyone buying MScaler will not need special ferrite cables but blu2 I hear is different and a lot more sensitive to RF

 

[Deftone]

Life is generally easier if you don't worry about what other people do with their money. Spend $10 on cables, spend $1,000. Who cares, not my money to decide.

I’m not worried