[Mediahound]

So the one from Amazon above works fine? 

 

[HeadphoneAddict]

Michael Goodman replied back that the one I linked in this thread will work with the HiFi-M8.  He did say make sure that any adapter that you guys buy is "+" tip like this one.  

 

[FiJAAS]

So does this have true balance? I wanted to try that with my HD 650. If not I'm thinking about buying Oppo HA-2 and the Fiio E12.

 

[ButtUglyJeff]

So does this have true balance? I wanted to try that with my HD 650. If not I'm thinking about buying Oppo HA-2 and the Fiio E12.

 
No, but it has great power coming out of all headphone jacks.  The HD650 sounds great on the M8, regardless of me using the 1/4" of XLR...

 

[Francisk]

So does this have true balance? I wanted to try that with my HD 650. If not I'm thinking about buying Oppo HA-2 and the Fiio E12.

HiFi M8 is not a true balanced amp.

 

[JeremiahD]

Having the occasional hard freeze in win10 while watching youtube, i can tell when its going to happen and thus avoid the freeze by stopping playback if im quick enough when i hear the audio start skipping/distorting, this is regardless of browser so prolly a problem with whatever browsers use to play vids as its rock solid stable with my audio workstations, music players, games ect

 

[landroni]

What DAC chip and opamp/buffers are used in the M8? Could someone please point me to the precise specs?
 
I looked at the beginning of the thread, and on the CEntrance product page I could find no info on this... 
 

 

[ezekiel77]

Hi I've tried searching to no avail.
 
Has anyone directly compared this to the Chord Mojo? Would like to know whether it's an up-, side- or downgrade from the M8. Thanks.

 

[landroni]

  Hi I've tried searching to no avail.

 
Has anyone directly compared this to the Chord Mojo? Would like to know whether it's an up-, side- or downgrade from the M8. Thanks.

Not to the Mojo, but to Chord Hugo (and Lavry DA11):
http://www.head-fi.org/t/702787/chord-hugo/1260#post_10404275
 
Both Hugo and DA11 are in a different league, M8 clearly elsewhere:
"Not surprisingly, the DAC in the HiFi-M8 (amplifier set to line level) was inferior to the Hugo and the Lavry. I threw it into the test because it was easy since the GS-Xmk2 has three inputs. Since each source was matched within 1db of each other and then I could switch between sources at will with no persevere difference in volume level.
Pretty quickly I stopped bothering with the HiFi-M8. It was clearly not in the same league of the other two DACs, though I noticed some of the passages that sounded very congested through the HiFi-M8 in the first test were not nearly so noticeable when the headphone were being driven by the GS-Xmk2."
 
From what I hear Mojo comes with a performance directly comparable to Hugo at a fraction of the price... And Mojo seems to be beating hands down desktop equipment like Oppo HA-1. So personally I've changed my mobile reference point from M8 to Mojo...

 

[ezekiel77]

Thanks for the comparison. Not exactly what I wanted but it's a good gauge of what the Mojo can do. It's nearly as I feared haha.

 

[KrissBill]

I compared the M8 with the Senoressence Herus+ In this thread and the Chord Mojo is one step further compared to the Herus +: more air, more details, better coherence. However, the Herus has more weight and more body than the Chord. The M8 is playing in a different league.

 

[ezekiel77]

Thanks, so it's probably a one-sided battle.

 

[verber]

 
Not to the Mojo, but to Chord Hugo (and Lavry DA11):
http://www.head-fi.org/t/702787/chord-hugo/1260#post_10404275
 

 
I saw this post and thought, that's odd, someone besides me compared those components?! Oh... that was my post.  I spent several hours doing a three way comparison between the Hugo, Mojo, and HiFI-M8 yesterday with a pair of HD800.  This time it was a sighted test so I am not as confident of the results as what was posted above. The punch line is that from sound quality perspective the HiFi-M8 seemed to be a full step behind both the Hugo and Mojo.  There were less noticeable differences between the Mojo and the Hugo (I prefer the Hugo).
 
If you are looking for a portable DAC that takes on of Mojo's three input forms to drive headphones which have  3.5mm jack, the Mojo delivers significantly better ROI than either the Hugo of HiFi-M8. The HiFi-M8 still has a place for people who need it's versatility and the Hugo trumps both but at a excessive price point.

 

[ezekiel77]

Thanks so much for the comparisons. When you say M8 is a step behind does that mean the Mojo and Hugo has better detail and soundstage?

 

[jlbrach]

the M8 is quite good and drives anything easily...the Hugo and Mojo are better but not such an extent that the M8 is not viable....it is a fine and versatile product