Chord Hugo TT 2 DAC / Headphone Amplifier / Preamplifier

Chord Hugo TT 2 DAC / Headphone Amplifier / Preamplifier Hugo TT 2 has been radically redesigned from the ground up, not only with beautiful new casework by chief designer John Franks, but with five times 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.As expected, it delivers radically improved technical specifications and measurements across the board and exhibits drastic sonic benefits over its predecessor with 768 kHz PCM and DSD 512 playback.  Delving deeper, in 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 208 MHz cores running in parallel to create an advanced 16 FS WTA 1 filter with 98,304 taps. Double that of its multi-award winning transportable brother, Hugo 2 (49,152).