Chord Electronics Hugo TT2 Desktop DAC and Headphone Amplifier

£3,995.00 including VAT

The Chord Electronics Hugo TT2 Desktop DAC improves upon its predecessor, the Hugo TT. The Hugo TT2 is an excellent DAC preamplifier with five times the processing power, sleek design, and up-to-date technology.

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Description

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 TT2โ€™s 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 โ€˜Aโ€™ weighted
  • Noise: 4 uV โ€˜Aโ€™ weighted (high gain), 1.7 uV โ€˜Aโ€™ 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
Additional Information

Dynamic range

127dB โ€˜Aโ€™ weighted

Noise

4 uV โ€˜Aโ€™ weighted (high gain), 1.7 uV โ€˜Aโ€™ 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

Output power (balanced)

(@1% THD) 1.15 W RMS 300ฮฉ; 18W RMS 8ฮฉ

Output impedance

0.042ฮฉ

Stereo separation

9 V RMS 300ฮฉ -138dB

Dimensions

235mm x 223mm x 46mm

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30-Day Returns Policy

HiFix is committed to selling quality products, which we hope you will love; we do understand, however, that there may be a time when you need to exchange or return something you have bought. We really do hope you are pleased with your purchase, but should you wish to return anything you have bought from us, we will be happy to refund or exchange a product within 30 days.

Manufacturer Warranty Information

Chord products are designed and manufactured to the highest quality standards. However, if something does go wrong with the product we are here to help. From your date of purchase your product is warranted against faulty materials or workmanship for a period of 120 months.

This guarantee applies to all Chord Products including:.Analogue and digital Cables, Video HDMi Cables, Phono Cables and Speaker Cables. Providing you with peace of mind and the assurance of premium Quality.

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