Developed from the multi-award-winning Hugo 2, the Chord Electronics Hugo TT2 Desktop DAC is bigger, better and more advanced. Hugo TT2 sets a new benchmark for table top DACs, eclipsed only by our flagship DAVE.
Radical Redesign
Hugo TT2 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 TT2 distils over 20 years of digital development by Rob Watts and takes advantage of the very latest technology.
New Benchmark
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 TT2 Desktop DAC sets a new benchmark in table top audio, only eclipsed by DAVE.
Custom Coded DAC
Delving deeper, in comparison to the 256-tap filters that traditional chip DACs may run at, Hugo TT2โs beating heart is a powerful Xilinx Artix 7 FPGA, custom-coded by Chord Electronicsโ 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 TT2 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.
Filter and Output Stage
A brand new high-power discreet 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 TT2 Desktop DAC 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.
Control Spheres
Chord Electronics Hugo TT2 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.
Hugo TT2 DAC is upgradable at any time with the addition of M Scaler, our 1M-tap digital upscaling device.
Technical Specifications
- Materials: Precision machined aluminium casing with steel ball bearing buttons, gloss black acrylic signal window, glass viewing portal
- Tap length filter: 98,304-tap 16FS WTA 1 โ 10 element design
- Connectivity (input): 1x USB Type-B, 2x Coax BNC & 2x Optical
- Connectivity (output): Stereo XLR, Stereo RCA, 2x 6.5mm Headphone jack & 1x 3.5mm Headphone jack
- Connectivity (digital output): 2x DX BNC (expansion outputs)
- PCM support: 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 96kHz, 192kHz, 384kHz and 768kHz. 16 โ 32bit
- DSD support: DoP DSD 64 to DSD 512 โ native via Windows
- Volume control: Digital
- Dynamic range: 127dB โAโ weighted
- Noise: 4 uV โAโ weighted (high gain), 1.7 uV โAโ weighted (low gain) with no measurable noise floor modulation
- Distortion: 0.00008% @ 2.5 V 300ฮฉ; 0.00016% @ 6 W 8ฮฉ
- Output power (unbalanced): (@1% THD) 288 mW RMS 300ฮฉ; 7.3 W RMS 8ฮฉ
- Stereo separation: 9 V RMS 300ฮฉ -138dB
- Dimensions: 5.2cm (H) 23.5cm (W) 23.8cm (D)
- Weight: 2.53kg
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