Chord Qutest
Three labs call it one of the cleanest DACs ever measured. Listeners still can't agree what that sounds like.
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Chord Electronics
FPGA-based DACs and amplifiers
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Chord Electronics is a British high-end audio manufacturer founded in 1989 by John Franks, who brought aviation-electronics engineering into hi-fi amplifier design; its equipment has been used by the BBC, Abbey Road Studios and Skywalker Sound. Since Rob Watts joined in the late 1990s the company has built its digital-to-analogue converters on custom-coded FPGAs rather than off-the-shelf DAC chips, a line that runs from the pocket-sized Mojo up to the DAVE.
- Founded
- 1989
- Based in
- Kent, England
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Chord Hugo 2
The bench says it is transparent. A stubborn minority of listeners says that is exactly the problem.
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Chord Mojo 2
A pocket DAC the measurement crowd and the listening crowd finally agree on — if you can learn the traffic lights.
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