Chord Electronics Hugo TT2

Hugo TT 2 — DAC, preamplifier and headphone amplifier. Table Top range.

Developed from the transportable Hugo 2: more processing (double Hugo 2; 5× the original Hugo TT), 768 kHz PCM and DSD512. Chord’s table-top DAC, eclipsed only by DAVE. A TT2 is in the Charlotte room to hear. The unit you buy is new authorized stock, not the demo on the rack.

FPGA

• Xilinx Artix 7 FPGA, custom-coded by Rob Watts
• 98,304-tap 16FS WTA 1 filter — 10-element design (86 × 208 MHz cores)
• Four-stage filters · three-stage digital crossfeed for headphones

Connections

• In: 1× USB Type-B · 2× coax BNC · 2× optical
• Out: stereo XLR · stereo RCA · 2× 6.5 mm headphone · 1× 3.5 mm headphone
• Digital out: 2× DX BNC
• Digital volume · line-level mode in the menu
• Upgrade path: Hugo M Scaler. Chord lists BerTTi as the matching Table Top power amp.

Power, size, what’s in the box

• Six supercapacitors — peak 5 A, 9.3 V RMS (replaces the original Hugo TT battery supply)
• Output (unbalanced, 1% THD): 288 mW RMS / 300 Ω · 7.3 W RMS / 8 Ω
• Output (balanced, 1% THD): 1.15 W RMS / 300 Ω · 18 W RMS / 8 Ω
• Dynamic range 127 dB A-weighted · distortion 0.00008% @ 2.5 V / 300 Ω
• 5.2 × 23.5 × 23.8 cm (H × W × D) · 2.53 kg
• Satin black or silver — note the finish at checkout
• 15 V 4 A supply · IR remote · USB-A to USB-B · optical cable
• Driverless on Mac and Linux; Windows driver required. Roon tested.

Free shipping in the contiguous U.S. Sales tax is calculated at checkout from the shipping address. Local pickup in Charlotte by arrangement. Questions: the contact form on hifiguync.com.