#Best player for flac 2015 portable#
#Best player for flac 2015 Bluetooth#

#Best player for flac 2015 Bluetooth#

When discussingВ DACsВ to improve the sound quality of your music, Bluetooth puts the cat among the pigeons owing to the inescapable truth that its delivery has yet to catch up with both wi-fi and wired listening for a truly high fidelity sound.

#Best player for flac 2015 portable#

The headline is that this portable DAC/headphone amp offers aВ Bluetooth 5.1В connection to your source device (although not to your headphones, those still need to be wired into the unit) thus eliminating one wire from the potentially bulky, tangled equation of phone, to DAC, to headphones. And what about existing Mojo owners? Honestly, Chord has left us no choice but to recommend the upgrade. But for those who are after a primarily portable or desktop DAC solution in this price region (and cannot triple their budget to Chord Hugo 2В territory), we believe the decision to Mojo 2 or not to Mojo 2 is far easier. While from a performance point of view the Mojo 2 can just as confidently raise a hi-fi systemвЂ™s game too, some of those looking for a system boost might reasonably prefer a dedicated system alternative with more suitable connections, such as theВ Cambridge Audio DacMagic 200M (below). And while those familiar withВ ChordвЂ™sВ most affordable product will see from this reviewвЂ™s accompanying images that the aesthetic hasnвЂ™t exactly been overhauled for the sequel, significant progress has been made elsewhere to protect its position as the pinnacle ofВ portable DACs.

The fittingly named Mojo 2 is the long-anticipated, re-engineered replacement to the 2015-released original, which burst onto the scene as a real benchmark-setting game-changer in the then-fledgling world of portable DACs.

Given there's no Bluetooth connectivity or headphone amp on-board, the QutestвЂ™s sole purpose is to be the digital-to-analogue bridge between your digital source and amplifier. The Qutest boasts Chord's trademark colour-denoting buttons which tell you which source it's drawing on: they glow white for USB-Type-B (capable of accepting 32-bit/768kHz PCM/DSD512) yellow for the first BNC coaxial and red for the second (24-bit/384kHz) and green for the optical (24-bit/192kHz/DSD64). But when it does you're in for a treat: songs are imbued with a great sense of scope, and there's warmth and texture in abundance. The DAC delivers a crisp, clean and concise sound, with Chord's now familiar neutral tonal balance.ДЄs with all decent hi-fi gear, it'll take a bit of running in time before the Qutest really starts to sing. It's the product that lesser rivals look up to at this price point. Chord continues to light up the premium market for DACs and the Qutest is the proof.