The Hugo 1 has a bit more in terms of lower mids warmth so it sounds a little less defined and softer than the Hugo 2 level of detail and control. As such, I tended to miss a little bit in terms of instrumental
The difference in the four filters is hard to see in above measurement so let's use a frequency response sweep:There is no difference in two of the filters. So I upped the sample rate:Still not much of a difference. I would just stick with the default Filter 1....
But in terms of the mathematics, sinc(x) dominates, and the M-Scaler is the strongest sinc(x) filter implementation (and practically useful) I've ever seen by measurement, upsampling to 16FS, therefore, I don't care about other filters. Last edited: Apr 12, 2020 P Pu...
So when Chord Electronics announced a new DAC at a much lower price, the Qutest ($1895), featuring technology trickled down from the DAVE and identical to that used in Chord's Hugo2 ($2395, footnote 3), I didn't need my arm twisted to agree to review it. ...
Nov 5, 2018 #2 IIRC it reaches its best performance at 5Vrms. Forgot where did I read that one from. "It is the perceived sound quality that matters not the measured quality – unless that measurement has been scaled and correlated to subjective perception through valid psychoacoustic...