Message from @Kaytee
Discord ID: 407668482617114626
not sure about the new one
```There isn’t another DAC around at anywhere near this sort of price able to communicate so torrentially, so unambiguously or so effortlessly. We like it a lot.
Read more at https://www.whathifi.com/chord/hugo-2/review#wEmHhZXWbXKIwZbs.99```
@bentech i bet it's measurably, objectively no better within human hearing range than whatever reasonably-recent $50 dac you could compare it to
yea but who cares about measurements when all my hi fi blogs tell me it's godo
it does look good tbh
as in physical apperance
lol
disagree there too, looks like a star trek TOS prop
not even tng
```Even so, the Hugo 2 provides supreme sound quality that threatens DACs many times its price point with a capable headphone amplifier to boot.
```
there's an easy, easy way to tell if a dac is actually worth more than $50
@maito received a pair of the Xiaomi ANC yesterday. Coming from Piston 2s I'm not impressed
after that price point they stop calling them dacs
and start calling them AFEs
afe?
er, wait, got my acronym backwards'd, analog frontend is the adc worth past that price point
aw fuck what was the opposite direction of those called
The Xiaomi ANC has way too little bass, although droidbot told me yesterday there's a mod to help that. Feel like the soundstage is extremely narrow
it has a special "this is for special science shit, not your stereo" name too
Although the noise cancellation is really cool
i guess if u are real musician its ok to spend a lot in stuff like that
lol a real musician wouldnt use this
yeah nah
actual studio gear uses cheap jellybean ics
i mean the dac
or something
idk
what they use
anyone got cheap (lapel) mics to recommend?
@Lefteris the oens on a budget go for whatever cheap pcm290* box they get recommended, then the price goes up as you gte into interfaces with more channels
digital monitors are becomming more common now as well
as in speakers you just plug a digital source straight into
cos they use tons of dsp
ye
like, $2400 for some shitty stereo audio dac, or a clarett 8prex for $1100
26 in/28 out, 24/192, phantom power for the inputs
for less than half the price of the audiophool dac
it's that cheap damn
but dude
```Line & Monitor Outputs
Dynamic Range (Line Outputs)
119dB
Dynamic Range (Monitor Outputs)
117dB
Maximum Output Level (0 dBFS)
+18 dBu
THD+N
0.0007%
```