I have to disagree with amberlamps that the Mojo is warmer than the Hugo 2.
I find the Hugo 2 warmer myself. I think it's because the sound is fuller. The Mojo may be a little darker. Yet to me Mojo and Hugo 2 are fairly balanced with each other and I don't find either brighter. The Mojo is just a bit more cloudy and less clear, but still brilliant, with a smaller soundstage.
Additionally the suggestion that soundstage is not worth it in IEMs is also not right for me. I find the soundstage is pretty good in my modestly priced AKG N40. I assume that it would be even better if I tacked an M-Scaler onto the Hugo 2. ... I do however concede that IEMs are known for having less sound-staging than headphones. However IEMs are far from no good at soundstage. Only last night I was listening to 192KHz Norah Jones - Not too Late. I was thinking how the placement of instruments were more spread than I was used to. I wondered if it was the effect of the high-res music, or just that album.
It feels like we are being taunted when folk say the Hugo 2 is not good for IEM. It's garbage. ... To add to this, the soundstage on the Hugo 2 is wider than it is on the Mojo. That's in my IEMs, headphones, and speakers.
Having said that, I am not sure for me that the M-Scaler is the right buy for me now. Nothing against it, and I imagine it is a brilliant device. I just have other things on my mind. I do imaging the M-Scaler bringing more warmth, clarity, and detail. I probably can't even imagine how much. I know the Hugo 2 was better to me in ways I had not imagined, coming from the Mojo.
No taunting here, and nothing here is garbage.
If you don’t think it’s warmer, I’m cool with that. See how that goes, I don’t disagree on how you find product abcde ..... to be.
Firstly, I love my Hugo 2, I love it so much, I decided to not trade it in to get money off my TT2. H2 is excellent at what it does, but in my opinion, and for my musical taste, I don’t like using iem’s with Hugo 2. Nobody said Hugo 2 is bad with iem’s, again, my opinion and tastes.
With all my iem’s, and when I say all, I’m speaking bags full of them, but I just never felt as comfortable with Hugo 2 with iem’s than I did with mojo and poly. Maybe subconsciously it’s size put me off using it with iem’s as a mobile dac. ?
I never said the iem soundstage was not worth it, if it was not worth it, I would not of spent thousands of pounds over the years on an iem collection. Some iem’s are very good, some not so good, but I think the very good are still not good enough for an mscaler. Again, just my opinion, it’s not law or fact, just my opinion. But I don’t think iem’s can faithfully reproduce the experience that Rob wants us to hear from his magic mscaler. Again, my opinion.
My question was, since iem’s are known to be inferior sound wise compared to headphones and because of other factors, tips, how far pushed into ear etc, because of all those variables, would it be worth using an mscaler with iem’s ?
I think no, but I could be wrong as I haven’t tried h2, mscaler and iem’s together, but what I can say is, MScaler with decent headphones is worth every penny.
I hope we have cleared that up ?
I will do some testing to see if iem’s are worth using on the mscaler, as it seems to of been a sore topic, which I can’t understand why, as if the iem’s sound bad, thats the iem’s fault and nothing to do with any chord product.
I will in order rate my chord products so nobody can question me again thinking I think x product is bad which is not the case.
Mojo 10/10
Poly 10/10
Hugo 2 10/10
MScaler 10/10
TT2 that I havent yet got, score is 10/10 already.
Nobody else ask me about using iems on Hugo 2 or MScaler, if the sound is bad, it’s the iem’s fault. Not the Chord products.
