Hugo TT 2 by Chord Electronics - The Official Thread

[Christer]

Hey Amber, have a drink on me Bro!

I start off each morning with a fresh brew of green tea washed down with some brown sourdough toast and coconut butter.

Best to keep diabetes at bay by eating healthy stuff most of the time.....................

Back on topic, BTW, what is the weather like up their in wee Scotland?

So I couldn´t resist this truly on topic exchange although I don´t own a TT2 only a Qutest/Mscaler.

Green Tea here as well to start my day and a piece of truly dark "Chocklit" 90%.
Nice bitter taste against my honeyed ginger flavoured green tea.
This after my not so early morning Yoga session with some nice soothing often Indian Classical music for up to an hour before I sip my special coffe brew also with ginger added.
But not only ginger and honey with my coffe, at least a teaspoon each of powdered turmeric,cinnamon and black pepper and instead of cowsmilk a sprinkling of oatly to soften the brew a bit.
It´ got quite a kick!
Another half hour of music at least, before I am ready for my German-style sourdough bread and musli yoghurt brunch around 11.

The weather in Sweden where I live?
It´s finally snowing a bit this evening,actually quite wintery for the first time this season.
I´ve got the fire in my fireplace warming me nicely this evening.
Spicy Gluhwein also adding its own glow to the evening.
I am preparing for my first full winter in Sweden in almost 20 years.
Since yesterday I am having a real music lover as house guest for a few days though.
Back on topic of Chord, amps with a noisy fan?? Seriously?
Cheers CC

 

[Whazzzup]

Taiwanese high mountain oolong and japan gyokuro emperors tea is all we drink.

 

[Spawn300Z]

I I have a chord Hugo TT2/ M-Scaler and 2 TTobys. I finally hooked them up. But how were you controlling the sound output when the TT2 is connected to external amplifiers. I have the TToby connected via Balanced Connections and have the TT2 on DAC. But can only control volume from the iMac. It does sound amazing by the way.

I thought you only put the TT2 in amp mode if driving speakers or headphones from the TT2.

Am I doing something wrong.

 

[HughF]

I was going to make a suggestion for M-Scaler users. However with the talk about amplifiers and the TT2, I will put it here for now.

I understand that the WAVE cables and Opto-DX do the magic of stopping noise from HSM to DAC. There is though, the issues that noise can travel via the power supplies. Folk and Rob Watts affirmed that using DC power packs stops that.

There may be another way though with mains conditioners. I know that if it were that simple, everyone would be doing it. However the iFi Powerstation is a unique product. It uses active noise cancellation, (just like noise-cancelling headphones). The active noise cancellation only works in the KHz and low MHz region. Whereas some of the noise issue with the M-Scaler is I think around 1MHz to 2MHz. … The iFi PowerStation has passive noise cancellation above the low MHz range.

I think RW mentioned M Scaler RFI frequency of 2GHz when recommending Wurth ferrite part numbers for M Scaler to DAC BNC cables.
HTH,
Hugh

 

[jarnopp]

I I have a chord Hugo TT2/ M-Scaler and 2 TTobys. I finally hooked them up. But how were you controlling the sound output when the TT2 is connected to external amplifiers. I have the TToby connected via Balanced Connections and have the TT2 on DAC. But can only control volume from the iMac. It does sound amazing by the way.

I thought you only put the TT2 in amp mode if driving speakers or headphones from the TT2.

Am I doing something wrong.

Not wrong, but you might get better sound using the TT2 volume than the Mac volume. You can drive the amplifier from the TT2 in amp mode, but I would use low gain and be careful not to overdrive it.

 

[Spawn300Z]

Thanks that worked so much better. Wasn’t sure if I should used it in that mode giving the instructions. But this works so much better.this is a great setup.

 

[griff500]

I I have a chord Hugo TT2/ M-Scaler and 2 TTobys. I finally hooked them up. But how were you controlling the sound output when the TT2 is connected to external amplifiers. I have the TToby connected via Balanced Connections and have the TT2 on DAC. But can only control volume from the iMac. It does sound amazing by the way.

I thought you only put the TT2 in amp mode if driving speakers or headphones from the TT2.

Am I doing something wrong.

I believe volume is at 100% when you use it in DAC mode and you control volume using the amp (or the input if you want to I guess). AMP mode allows the TT2 to control the volume and that's the mode I use with my active speakers as there's obviously no volume control on the speaker's power amps. I'm using the high gain setting.

 

[Whazzzup]

It also smooths out my oolong

 

[bpcans]

Taiwanese high mountain oolong and japan gyokuro emperors tea is all we drink.

The little woman and I are on a Macha tea kick lately. She's of the weird belief that it's good for us somehow.

 

[Amberlamps]

What have I started with all you T lovers, somebody me please.

And when I say T, I mean




Who can resist a man who has feathers hanging from his ears.

He was the doorman at my bat mitzvah.

 

[N Quarter]

What have I started with all you T lovers, somebody me please.

And when I say T, I mean




Who can resist a man who has feathers hanging from his ears.

He was the doorman at my bar mitzvah.

Didn’t he get his ass wupped?

 

[Hooster]

Kombucha is the tea for me, I was just brewing a batch.

 

[SilverEars]

Matcha all the way. Well, matcha lotte with almond milk hits the spot. Tasty and keeps you alert, and theantioxidants will be great for your health.

 

[Amberlamps]

Matcha all the way. Well, matcha lotte with almond milk hits the spot. Tasty and keeps you alert, and theantioxidants will be great for your health.

That actually looks nice, send me some so that I can try, does it give you a green moustache ?

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Waaay down below the ocean, where I wanna be, she may be.......Goodfella’s is a great movie, It’s “culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the national film registry by the United States library of congress.

Try watching it via the mscaler/dac, it sounds great.

 

[miketlse]

That actually looks nice, send me some so that I can try, does it give you a green moustache ?

I was tempted to add a bag of it, to this weeks tea order, but the price made me think twice.
https://www.maxicoffee.com/vert-mat...ir-gyukuro-comptoir-francais-40g-p-22887.html
https://www.maxicoffee.com/vert-matcha-special-cuisine-japon-100g-destination-p-25069.html

It makes these coffees look cheap in comparison
https://www.maxicoffee.com/cafe-grains-blue-mountain-jamaique-125g-cafes-lugat-p-2691.html
https://www.maxicoffee.com/cafe-gra...-blues-jamaica-blue-mountain-1kg-p-86492.html