Chord Hugo TT2 High Resolution DAC / Pre-Amp

Our Take Developed from the multi-award-winning transportable Hugo 2, the Hugo TT 2 is bigger, better and more advanced in every way. The Chord Hugo TT2 DAC packs more audio performance than ever in its svelte chassis, delivering a world-class level of resolution and musicality, particularly when paired with the new Chord Hugo M Scaler. For the best headphone listening experience, team the TT2 DAC with our Blue Hawaii SE for electrostatic headphones, or our GS-X mk2 or GS-X Mini for your dynamic and planar magnetic headphones. The Story Radically Redesigned Hugo TT 2 has been radically redesigned from the ground up, not only with beautiful new casework by Chief Designer, John Franks, but with 5x the processing power of the original Hugo TT and double that of the multi-award-winning Hugo 2. Hugo TT 2 distils over 20 years of digital development by Rob Watts and takes advantage of the very latest technology. As expected, it delivers radically improved technical specifications and measurements across the board and exhibits drastic sonic benefits over its predecessor with 768kHz PCM and DSD 512 playback. Hugo TT 2 sets a new benchmark in table top audio, only being eclipsed by DAVE. Delving deeper, in comparison to the 256-tap filters that traditional chip DACs may run at, Hugo TT 2’s beating heart is a powerful Xilinx Artix 7 FPGA, custom-coded by Chord Electronics’ Rob Watts, with 86x 208MHz cores running in parallel to create an advanced 16FS WTA 1 filter with 98,304-taps. Double that of its multi-award winning transportable brother, Hugo 2 (49,152). Hugo TT 2 also benefits from an upgrade from a 4-element design to a 10-element design, which works in harmony with the radically upgraded FPGA and code to deliver unrivalled audio. High-Power Output Stage A brand new high-power discrete output stage coupled with second-order noise-shaping integrated between the DAC output and filter is also employed to massively reduce distortion. Further improvements have also been made to the power delivery. Hugo TT 2 eschews the Li-Po battery power supply of the original and ushers in six super capacitors capable of delivering huge, linear dynamic currents when the music demands it with peak output of 5A, 9.3V RMS. Hugo TT 2 also brings home the much loved four-stage user-selectable filter controls introduced with Hugo 2 and retains the three-stage user-selectable digital crossfeed function for headphone users who want to improve the perception of depth, similar to that of speakers. The Features Materials Precision machined aluminium casing with steel ball bearing buttons, gloss black acrylic signal window, glass viewing portal, and dot matrix display. Available in a choice of two colours – silver, and satin black. Connectivity Input: 1x USB Type-B, 2x Coax BNC, 2x Optical & Bluetooth Output: Stereo XLR, Stereo RCA, 2x 6.5mm Headphone jack & 1x 3.5mm Headphone jack Line-level mode: Activated within the menu Digital Output: 2x DX BNC (expansion outputs) Digital PCM support: 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88.2kHz, 96kHz, 176.4kHz, 192kHz, 358.8kHz, 384kHz, 705.6 and 768kHz – 16 to 32bit DSD support: DoP DSD 64 to DSD 512 – native via Windows Tap length filter: 98,304-tap 16FS WTA 1 – 10 element design Volume control: Digital Compatibility Driver support: Driverless with Mac OS X and Linux, driver required for Windows OS What's Included • Chord Hugo TT2 DAC • 15V/4A Switching Power Supply • 1.5M Type A to B USB Cable • Hugo TT2 Owners Manual The Specs Dynamic Range 127dB ‘A’ weighted Noise 4uV ‘A’ weighted (high gain), 1.7uV ‘A’ weighted (low gain) Distortion 0.00008% @ 2.5V 300Ω; 0.00016% @ 6W 8Ω Output Power - Unbalanced 288mW 300Ω; 7.3W 8Ω Output Power - Balanced 1.15W 300Ω; 18W 8Ω Output Impedance 0.042Ω Stereo Separation 9Vrms 300Ω -138dB Dimensions 9.4 x 9.3 x 2 in. Weight 2.5kg / 5.6lb Hugo TT2 is Made in Great Britain.