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wait, are you talking about 1a or 1z? if it's 1A, this is awesome as Hugo2 sells for 2x more than wm1a
I'm hoping Dvdlucena is referring to the 1Z more as I have the 1A next to the Hugo 2 now and much as I love my 1A it is not the same level as the Hugo2 and for me good as the 1Z is the Hugo2 wins again on SQ alone. The Hugo2 may go louder and can take a load now after they learnt from the first Hugo been underpowered but this Hugo2 dac is another level to a lot of dacs costing a lot more and for me ecerything Dvdlucena found 20% agasint the Hugo2 I found the opposite! But like he quite rightly points out YMMV!
They are two very different tools in terms of use anyhow and owning the 1A and using the Hugo2 at the moment I would still love a 1Z if I could!... Reason being the 1Z apart from been a slightly different sig to the 1A been more reference and tonally more nuetral it does show more micro detail and controls notes better and allows better use of the space in the soundstage for everything to operate which is maybe why people do find less of a bigger jump on the 1Z to balanced to the 1A as it's 3,5SE is pretty darn good already with the imaging and soundstage scope. I just could not personally justify the extra to jump to the lovely gold brick bar with other commitments in my life at the moment and quite happy with the 1A as long as I don't comapre them to many more times together that is!
But for me much as I love these Sony's the Hugo is a masterclass dac for the money and makes the original Hugo sterile in comparison with the double tap rate to the oriignal.
But consensus which some have touched upon is Sony have finally started to come back which is true to a degree but still feel there is a lot fo work to go for Sony to be firing all cylinders across their product range but it has been long oveedue but to think it probably started now way back with the ZX1 then ZX2 an F models which where all the leg work to these models now before us. to think I used to be well happy with my old X1060 with mini oled screen! How times have changed in a few years!
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