Chord Hugo TT 2 - Black

Hugo 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 distils 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 768kHz PCM and DSD 512 playback. Hugo TT 2 sets a new benchmark in table top audio^ only being eclipsed by DAVE. Delving deeper^ in comparison to the 256-tap filters that traditional chip DACs may run at^ Hugo TT 2s 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. 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 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. Hugo 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. Hugo TT 2 can be upgraded at any time with the addition of M Scaler^ our 1M-tap digital upscaling device.

Tap length filter:
98^304-tap 16FS WTA 1 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^ 88.2kHz^ 96kHz^ 176.4kHz^ 192kHz^ 352.8kHz^ 384kHz^ 717.6kHz^ and 768kHz. 16 32bit

DSD support:
DoP DSD 64 to DSD 512 native via Windows

Volume control:
Digital

Line-level mode:
Activated within the menu

Driver support:
Driverless with Mac OS X and Linux^ driver required for Windows OS

Weight:
2.53kg