Chord Hugo TT2

From Chord's website . . . 

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 tabletop audio, only being eclipsed by DAVE.

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 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.

  
Here are the particulars of what this all includes:  
  

**HUGO TT 2 -- SPECIFICATIONS:**

**Materials:** Precision machined aluminium casing with steel ball bearing buttons, gloss black acrylic signal window, glass viewing portal, and dot matrix display. Available in a choice of two colours -- silver, and satin black

**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)

**Weight: **2.53kg

**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