Hi all,
I just today bought a Chord Hugo to see if it would improve the quality of my Sonos (which I've thought to be generally pretty good but sometimes a bit veiled) and I've been listening to a range of music tonight comparing the output straight from my Sonos to that coming from the Hugo and I haven't heard any difference at all.
System consists of Sonos Connect, Roksan Caspian M2 amp, Spendor D7s with cambridge audio series 500 interconnects, vandamme 75ohm coax cable and atlas hyper 3 speaker cables.
I've been listening at low volume levels to a selection of Nina simone, the xx, kings of convenience, talking heads, bastille, jungle, ben howard, Goldfrapp All streamed via Qobuz at 44/16 Flac, except the Goldfrap which was flac streamed from a mac mini.
I set the Hugo up about 5 hours ago, turned it on, plugged it in, turned off the crosstalk, volume matched it with straight Sonos signal as best I could and left a radio station signal running through it for 5 hours.
I've tried flipping mid song and listening to whole songs and then switching and repeating the song. I did a similar experiment comparing my roksan with my harmon kardon AVR630 a few weeks ago and found noticeable differences when repeating the same song from the beginning. I suspect switching mid song is harder to tell.
The Roksan felt noticeably more open and had better control on complicated passages. But I really can't spot anything different with the Hugo in the chain.
Do you think it needs running in time? From what I've read and heard about the product I was expecting it to be at least an noticeable difference if only subtle in the scheme of things.
Anybody else have the same experience as me?
A few months ago I tried a Rega Dac with same results. Am I cloth eared?
Is my system not good enough to reveal the differences?
Any advice welcome, I'm keen to at least learn to recognise the differences even if I decide it's ultimately not worth the additional cost.
Thanks, Tom
I just today bought a Chord Hugo to see if it would improve the quality of my Sonos (which I've thought to be generally pretty good but sometimes a bit veiled) and I've been listening to a range of music tonight comparing the output straight from my Sonos to that coming from the Hugo and I haven't heard any difference at all.
System consists of Sonos Connect, Roksan Caspian M2 amp, Spendor D7s with cambridge audio series 500 interconnects, vandamme 75ohm coax cable and atlas hyper 3 speaker cables.
I've been listening at low volume levels to a selection of Nina simone, the xx, kings of convenience, talking heads, bastille, jungle, ben howard, Goldfrapp All streamed via Qobuz at 44/16 Flac, except the Goldfrap which was flac streamed from a mac mini.
I set the Hugo up about 5 hours ago, turned it on, plugged it in, turned off the crosstalk, volume matched it with straight Sonos signal as best I could and left a radio station signal running through it for 5 hours.
I've tried flipping mid song and listening to whole songs and then switching and repeating the song. I did a similar experiment comparing my roksan with my harmon kardon AVR630 a few weeks ago and found noticeable differences when repeating the same song from the beginning. I suspect switching mid song is harder to tell.
The Roksan felt noticeably more open and had better control on complicated passages. But I really can't spot anything different with the Hugo in the chain.
Do you think it needs running in time? From what I've read and heard about the product I was expecting it to be at least an noticeable difference if only subtle in the scheme of things.
Anybody else have the same experience as me?
A few months ago I tried a Rega Dac with same results. Am I cloth eared?
Is my system not good enough to reveal the differences?
Any advice welcome, I'm keen to at least learn to recognise the differences even if I decide it's ultimately not worth the additional cost.
Thanks, Tom