[musickid]

Our ears are the most valuable bit of audio kit we will ever own or use. If it sounds good to you there is no other defining factor.

 

[Triode User]

Our ears are the most valuable bit of audio kit we will ever own or use. If it sounds good to you there is no other defining factor.

Haha, you obviously have been down to Sound Science any time recently!

 

[musickid]

Not at all. Never really examined the sound science thread.

 

[Triode User]

Not at all. Never really examined the sound science thread.

If you ventured to say “Our ears are the most valuable bit of audio kit we will ever own or use. If it sounds good to you there is no other defining factor” in there you would last about 30 seconds before the circling vultures came down for a meal. If you stop posting here we will know you have ignored my advice and have been eaten.

Thankfully we are in a safe DBT free area and so I can tend to agree with you that if it sounds good then it is good. But then that is why we are here together because we like the sound of the Chord DACs.

 

[paul2qute]

It's been 3 weeks 2 days and 2 hours without my chord hugo 2,do I miss it HELL YES,do I regret doing a part ex to get my Chord hugo TT 2 HELL NO, 46 on Saturday yes it's my birthday and I can still do the windmill

 

[musicday]

It's been 3 weeks 2 days and 2 hours without my chord hugo 2,do I miss it HELL YES,do I regret doing a part ex to get my Chord hugo TT 2 HELL NO, 46 on Saturday yes it's my birthday and I can still do the windmill

Try harder to get to CanJam London next month. By doing so, you will be closer to your future TT 2

 

[musickid]

For Rob or anyone who knows with a headphone of 250 ohms impedance and (nominal SPL 102 dB (1 mW / 500 Hz)) and (Max. SPL 125 dB (200 mW / 500 Hz)) would TT2 be set to low or high gain. I'm exploring how a particular beyer headphone might work with TT2.

 

[paul2qute]

Try harder to get to CanJam London next month. By doing so, you will be closer to your future TT 2

I've been asking the lads for a swap but no-one wants to do it.Could do with taking the Mrs to London for a night out and a stay over,in the dog house that I owe nintronics 500 pound for the part ex, she thought it was a straight swap

 

[paul2qute]

Well it's my birthday today I'm coughs 46..I decided to get the audioquest nighthawk for my birthday, read they scale really well with better kit so should sound great on the Chord hugo TT 2,I know Rob watts likes the nighthawk.The price has dropped to £350 as they have stopped making them now

 

[ZappaMan]

Well it's my birthday today I'm coughs 46..I decided to get the audioquest nighthawk for my birthday, read they scale really well with better kit so should sound great on the Chord hugo TT 2,I know Rob watts likes the nighthawk.The price has dropped to £350 as they have stopped making them now

Happy birthday! But how you feeding these headphones? I thought you traded the lot in.

 

[paul2qute]

Happy birthday! But how you feeding these headphones? I thought you traded the lot in.

Thanks mate, I've got a Oppo 205 I can plug the nighthawk in to so I can have a listen but mainly to run them in before the storm

 

[Currawong]

For Rob or anyone who knows with a headphone of 250 ohms impedance and (nominal SPL 102 dB (1 mW / 500 Hz)) and (Max. SPL 125 dB (200 mW / 500 Hz)) would TT2 be set to low or high gain. I'm exploring how a particular beyer headphone might work with TT2.

I’ve not seen a Chord headphone amp with gain switches, so the answer would be, as usual, that you set the volume to the level desired.

 

[paul2qute]

With you being a reviewer I'm sure you will find out the best settings and answer ppl's questions,high gain for harder to drive headphones or low gain for i.e.m's so we don't get any hiss? Or is it the other way around?

 

[Currawong]

Unless I'm mistaken, there are not any gain settings (separate from the volume control) for the headphone output, as they are unnecessary.

 

[x RELIC x]

Unless I'm mistaken, there are not any gain settings (separate from the volume control) for the headphone output, as they are unnecessary.

You thinking the low gain mode doesn’t apply to the headphone out?

TT2 has a low gain setting; this ensures that the OP noise voltage is only 1.6uV - that's the lowest residual noise of any DAC I have ever designed (against the high gain max OP voltage it's -135dB). I have to account for the AP's 1uV of residual noise to do this measurement!

Amp mode on TT means power amp (to efficient speakers) or to replace your pre-amp, so working as a digital pre-amp. You would just set it in low gain mode.