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Seven years later and Chord’s outstanding portable DAC finally has a sequel in the Mojo 2. So has it been worth the wait?
Chord Mojo 2 : Read more
Chord Mojo 2 : Read more
Of course the Chord doesn't use the same chipsets as any other non Chord DAC and that is where the potential value comes.At the current standard of DAC from chinese manufacturing I believe that it is not justified to pay more than £300 for a DAC. A DAC of £500 should be at least 32bit 384Khz, 256DSD and should have USB-C, Optical, SPDIF, XLR balance out, High current headphone output, volume knob and a remote control ... and it should have 20-21bit linearity, proper filtering, S/N >125dB ... And I am not falling for the whole brand name thingie considering all these DAC's use the same chipsets; and for that matter some of them fail on the filtering part. I don't think I will be buying this Chord DAC unless it drops well below £200 and then only because it looks funny with the colored LEDs.
Not an issue based on the reviews I’ve seen. One specifically connected it into a Hegel 390 with 3.5mm to RCA and said it worked well.The Mojo 2 lacks the line level output option which was present on the original Mojo.
Beware if expecting to drive an amp.