Chord Electronics at What Hi-Fi Awards
Chord Electronics dominates the What Hi-Fi? Awards
An incredible THREE out of five Best DAC Awards go to Chord Electronics for Mojo 2, Qutest and Hugo 2
Kent, England, 14 October 2022: Kent-based analogue and digital audio expert Chord Electronics has won an incredible three out of five ‘Best DAC’ accolades in the What Hi-Fi? Awards 2022, dominating across a huge range of important price categories for hi-fi consumers, from £300 all the way to £1,500+.
The most prized global awards in the hi-fi industry were presented to the British designed, engineered and manufactured Mojo 2, Qutest and Hugo 2, covering portable, standalone and transportable devices from the founder-owned company, established in 1989.
The January-launched Mojo 2, which uniquely features the world’s first lossless DSP, won Best DAC £300-£500, following seven successive What Hi-Fi? Awards (2015-2021) for its predecessor Mojo, which won ‘Best DAC’ every season from its debut to retirement year.
Chord Electronics’ ‘standalone’ Qutest DAC, which eschews the headphone amplifier stage seen in the Mojo 2 and Hugo 2, won Best DAC £500-£1,500 for a further year, taking its award-winning run to an impressive five successive years (2018-2022).
Combining a DAC, headphone amplifier and ‘digital preamp’ in a transportable chassis, the Hugo 2 won Best DAC over £1,500 for a sixth successive year (2017-2022), with What Hi-Fi? noting: ‘The Chord Hugo 2 remains impossible to beat’.
Chord Electronics’ dominance of the What Hi-Fi Awards is attributed to the company’s class-leading proprietary digital conversion technologies, pioneered by Digital Design consultant Rob Watts, which are uniquely implemented on powerful FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) chipsets, resulting in unrivalled sonic and technical performance.
The company’s celebrated What Hi-Fi? Awards success extends far beyond current products, with earlier awards for the Hugo 2 predecessor, the original Hugo (2014), and Qutest predecessors, the 2Qute, QuteEX and QuteHD, spanning as far back as 2013.
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