{"product_id":"chord-hugo-tt2-dac-preamp-headphone-amp-black","title":"Chord Hugo TT2  DAC \/ Preamp \/ Headphone Amp - Black","description":"\u003ch3\u003eEditors' Choice Award 2022 – \u003cem\u003eThe Absolute Sound\u003c\/em\u003e Magazine\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBest DAC of 2021 Award – \u003cem\u003eWhat Hi-Fi?\u003c\/em\u003e Magazine\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"Recommended\" Award – \u003cem\u003eheadfonia.com\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"Five Stars\" - \u003cem\u003eWhat Hi-Fi?\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eProduct of the Year 2024 - \u003cem\u003ethespeakershacks.co.uk\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"Recommended\" Award 2024 – \u003cem\u003eaudiograde.com\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\"The Best Value DAC the Company Makes\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eDeveloped from the multi-award-winning transportable Hugo 2, the Hugo TT 2 DAC, preamplifier, and headphone amplifier is bigger, better and more advanced in every way. TT 2 sets a new benchmark for tabletop DACs, eclipsed only by Chord's flagship DAVE.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eHugo 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 distills over 20 years of digital development by Rob Watts and takes advantage of the very latest technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eHugo TT 2 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eIn a February 2021 online article, \"Best DACs of 2021,\" \u003cem\u003eWhat Hi-Fi?\u003c\/em\u003e magazine notes, \"Chord's Hugo was already a stellar DAC, and this only improves on it.\" According to \u003cem\u003eWhat Hi-Fi?\u003c\/em\u003e, \"There isn’t another DAC around at anywhere near this sort of price able to communicate so well and so effortlessly. We like it a lot.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eAward-Winning Performance\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThe Hugo TT2 won an Editors' Choice Award from \u003cem\u003eThe Absolute Sound,\u003c\/em\u003e magazine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"To state things simply, the Hugo TT 2 is different from and better than the original Hugo TT in every way. It is quieter, yields unmeasurable levels of noise, offers greater dynamic range, provides a different and better power supply, produces much more output power, and incorporates a markedly improved DAC section. In short, everything the Hugo TT could do, the Hugo TT 2 can do better.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eIt also won a \"Recommended\" Award from \u003cem\u003eheadfonia.com\u003c\/em\u003e, which reports, \"This has been a long journey, but such a great one. Over the last months, I have gotten to know the Hugo TT2 inside and out. From the start, it has made its place at the very top of my DAC list clear. I can absolutely see why people would call it quits after getting the Hugo TT2.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\"Everything the Hugo TT Could Do, the Hugo TT 2 Can Do Better\"\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"In performance and feature terms it’s possible to make a strong case for the Hugo TT2 to be considered the best value DAC the company makes,\" reports England's \u003cem\u003eWhat Hi-Fi?\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, which gives the Hugo TT 2 its top rating of Five Stars. \"So, Chord’s seemly unstoppable digital bandwagon rolls on with yet another class leader.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eFavoring the TT2 with Product of the Year 2024 honors, \u003cem\u003ethespeakershacks.co.uk\u003c\/em\u003e notes, \"The Hugo TT2 on its own is a stunning performer but with the M Scaler connected it's turned a good DAC into a weapons grade one capable of mass destruction of your musical senses.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eIt also won a \"Recommended\" badge from \u003cem\u003eaudiograde.com\u003c\/em\u003e, which observes, \"While these amps may be table top in size, they’re more than full-width in sonic stature. As as a stepping stone into Chord Electronics’ way of doing things they are bang on point, with cutting edge internals and styling that bucks the boring trend. The Hugo TT 2 is the obvious place to start as a standalone DAC or preamp with a difference.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eDelving Deeper into Hugo TT 2's Heart\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eA 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eFour-Stage User-Selectable Filter Controls\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eHugo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eHugo TT 2 can be upgraded at any time with the addition of M Scaler, Chord's 1M-tap digital upscaling device.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eCapabilities and Connections\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThe Hugo TT 2 offers PCM support of 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88.2kHz, 96kHz, 176.4kHz, 192kHz, 358.8kHz, 384kHz, 705.6 and 768kHz – 16-bit to 32-bit. DSD support is DoP DSD 64 to DSD 512, native via Windows. Operation of the Hugo TT 2 with your computer is driverless with Mac OS X and Linux, but a driver is required for Windows OS.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eInputs consist of 1x USB Type-B, 2x Coax BNC, 2x Optical \u0026amp; Bluetooth. Outputs are Stereo XLR, Stereo RCA, 2x 6.5mm Headphone jack, 1x 3.5mm Headphone jack, and 2x DX BNC (expansion outputs) digital outputs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chord","offers":[{"title":"New \/ Black \/ New","offer_id":45983421890733,"sku":"NEW-CHHUGTT2-BLK","price":5695.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0750\/3708\/1773\/files\/CHHUGTT2_BLK_01_2024__66809.1728433284.1280.1280.jpg?v=1778097214","url":"https:\/\/www.audioadvisor.com\/products\/chord-hugo-tt2-dac-preamp-headphone-amp-black","provider":"Audio Advisor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}