[Rob Watts]

I needed speakers that I could carry with me on my travels - so small and lightweight - but toughly built. I ended up with the JBL one; not high end, but warm sounding and great depth. Since Covid I really should have upgraded them, but just haven't gotten round to it.

 

[Apos001]

Greetings!

If I want to use a balanced cable for headphones in Hugo tt2. Should I use something like this:
https://mytek.audio/shop/metropolis...lanced-headphone-adapter-315?category=6#attr=
?

thnx!

 

[mammal]

If I want to use a balanced cable for headphones in Hugo tt2.

Do you want to drive your headphones balanced or single ended? With HTT2 you have two options, either you convert your balanced headphone cable to 3.5/6.3mm single ended jack, or you adapt HTT2's rear XLRs - 2x3Pin female XLR into 4Pin female XLR.

 

[Apos001]

Do you want to drive your headphones balanced or single ended? With HTT2 you have two options, either you convert your balanced headphone cable to 3.5/6.3mm single ended jack, or you adapt HTT2's rear XLRs - 2x3Pin female XLR into 4Pin female XLR.

I want to take advantage of the doubling of power, so I want to use balanced. So I cannot just use the adapter I showed you right? I can only drive them through the rear of the unit?

Are you driving Abyss AB-1266 Phi TC single ended?

 

[mammal]

I want to take advantage of the doubling of power, so I want to use balanced.

Have a look at this adapter instead. I am still waiting for my AB-1266, but as you can see, I plan to drive it balanced & differential too

 

[Apos001]

Do you want to drive your headphones balanced or single ended? With HTT2 you have two options, either you convert your balanced headphone cable to 3.5/6.3mm single ended jack, or you adapt HTT2's rear XLRs - 2x3Pin female XLR into 4Pin female XLR.

Have a look at this adapter instead. I am still waiting for my AB-1266, but as you can see, I plan to drive it balanced & differential too

Thank you so much. So why does tt2 have two 1/4 in front ?

 

[mammal]

So the only reason that tt2 has two 1/4 in front is for speakers?

I honestly do not know and am wondering about this myself now :-/

 

[Vyyy]

@Rob Watts i have a question regarding crossfeed levels on Hugo2 / TT2. Are they are exactly the same algorithm? I have auditioned TT2 and somehow (or its a placebo) i noticed that TT2 level1 is bit bit wider than Hugo2 level1. Or thats TT2 soundstage wider has to do with?
Thanks.

 

[Rob Watts]

Thank you so much. So why does tt2 have two 1/4 in front ?

So your friends/spouse/mate can listen too. TT2 can easily drive two headphones together.

@Rob Watts i have a question regarding crossfeed levels on Hugo2 / TT2. Are they are exactly the same algorithm? I have auditioned TT2 and somehow (or its a placebo) i noticed that TT2 level1 is bit bit wider than Hugo2 level1. Or thats TT2 soundstage wider has to do with?
Thanks.

Same algorithm and the same cross-feed code - so it's some other reason for it sounding different.

 

[flyte3333]

Way back when I was 16 I was studying electronics at my local college

Wow, you started your engineering degree at 16 !?

A high school maths prodigy !?

 

[Rob Watts]

No, I am absolutely not any kind of prodigy. I was doing A levels Physics, Maths and Chemistry and AS level electronics (for non UK readers an AS level is a one year course usually taken at 16, A levels are a 2 year course). I then went on to study an Electronics degree at university at 18.

 

[Apos001]

I will be at canjam London.

Will you be there? Can you autograph my Hugo 2?

 

[griff500]

If you don't mind me asking @Rob Watts your thoughts on phase for the DAVE? I'm using it with ATC SCM40A speakers and thought that there was perhaps a slightly better sound from negative but many on the forum, and Ben Lilly of ATC in his response to me, stated that there's no difference and it doesn't matter.

I'm perfectly happy with the DAVE on negative phase but I was wondering what your thoughts are on this?

 

[118900]

If you don't mind me asking @Rob Watts your thoughts on phase for the DAVE? I'm using it with ATC SCM40A speakers and thought that there was perhaps a slightly better sound from negative but many on the forum, and Ben Lilly of ATC in his response to me, stated that there's no difference and it doesn't matter.

I'm perfectly happy with the DAVE on negative phase but I was wondering what your thoughts are on this?

Would be interesting to hear how phase plays a part in the sound reproduction. Isn’t it dependant on recordings too?

 

[Rob Watts]

I will be at canjam London.

Will you be there? Can you autograph my Hugo 2?

If London CanJam goes ahead , then I will be there, and it would be a pleasure to sign your unit.

If you don't mind me asking @Rob Watts your thoughts on phase for the DAVE? I'm using it with ATC SCM40A speakers and thought that there was perhaps a slightly better sound from negative but many on the forum, and Ben Lilly of ATC in his response to me, stated that there's no difference and it doesn't matter.

I'm perfectly happy with the DAVE on negative phase but I was wondering what your thoughts are on this?

The only time I felt I could hear a difference, when I looked into this in the mid 90's, with music was via a stacked pair of Quad ESL57; oddly I couldn't hear a difference with moving coil loudspeakers. To be honest, it's not something I have tried recently, and I ought to with my planer headphones. I do recall reading a very interesting and excellent blog post on Archimago's website here.

In this case a special asymmetric clipped test tone is used, and absolute polarity is detectable as the ear itself has asymmetric non-linearity, and can create (if I recall correctly) 1% second harmonic distortion; so an asymmetric signal will work better (lower overall distortion) in one direction (or one phase) compared to another. But of course how often this happens with real instruments is another story!

Would be interesting to hear how phase plays a part in the sound reproduction. Isn’t it dependant on recordings too?

Absolutely - it's not guaranteed that phase is preserved, and of course different instruments have different effects - if the instrument waveform is symettrical, it won't matter. But trombones, for example, do have asymmetric waveforms so can be important.