Chord Electronics
Hugo TT 2
Introduced 2018$5,795 MSRP
Chord's transportable/desktop reference DAC, preamp and headphone amplifier, built around a custom-coded Xilinx Artix 7 FPGA rather than an off-the-shelf DAC chip. It runs a 98,304-tap 16FS WTA 1 filter and handles PCM to 768kHz and DSD512, eclipsed in Chord's range only by the flagship DAVE.
MSRP
$5,795
Used market · Good
$3,400
-41% vs MSRP
as of Sep 1, 2026MSRP to used market
From $5,795 at launch to $3,400 today.
Specifications
- Inputs
- 1x USB Type-B, 2x Coax BNC, 2x Optical (plus aptX Bluetooth per https://hifiplus.com/articles/chord-electronics-hugo-tt-2-dacm-scaler-upscaler/)
- Weight
- 2.53 kg (5.58 lb)
- Outputs
- Stereo XLR, stereo RCA, 2x 6.35mm headphone jacks, 1x 3.5mm headphone jack; 2x DX BNC digital expansion outputs
- Materials
- Precision machined aluminium casing with steel ball-bearing buttons, gloss black acrylic signal window, glass viewing portal and dot matrix display; silver or satin black
- Dimensions
- 5.2cm (H) x 23.5cm (W) x 23.8cm (D) / 9.25 x 2 x 9.37 in
- Distortion
- 0.00008% @ 2.5 V 300 ohms; 0.00016% @ 6 W 8 ohms
- DSD support
- DoP DSD 64 to DSD 512 - native via Windows
- PCM support
- 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192, 352.8, 384, 717.6 and 768kHz; 16-32bit
- Upgrade path
- Can be paired with Chord's Hugo M Scaler 1M-tap upscaler
- Dynamic range
- 127dB 'A' weighted
- Volume control
- Digital; selectable DAC (fixed line level), amp and headphone modes
- DAC architecture
- Xilinx Artix 7 FPGA custom-coded by Rob Watts, 86x 208MHz cores in parallel; 98,304-tap 16FS WTA 1 filter, 10-element design
- Output impedance
- 0.042 ohms
- Power consumption
- Full power 30 W; standby 10 W
- Output power balanced
- @1% THD: 1.15 W RMS into 300 ohms; 18 W RMS into 8 ohms
- Output power unbalanced
- @1% THD: 288 mW RMS into 300 ohms; 7.3 W RMS into 8 ohms
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