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Product of the Year – Best DAC £300-£700 - 2024 – What Hi-Fi? Magazine
Best Portable DAC Award 2024 – What Hi-Fi? Magazine
Editor's Choice Award 2024 – hi-fi+ Magazine
Revolutionary British-Built DAC and Headphone Amp with Chord's Exclusive Lossless DSP
The British designed, engineered, and built Mojo 2 is one of the most advanced portable DAC and headphone amplifiers in the world. Distinctly different from all other devices, Mojo 2 uses proprietary British digital audio technology perfected over more than two decades, coupled to a powerful ‘FPGA’ processor. The result is class-leading sound quality both on the move or at home, with the power to effortlessly drive any headphones. For music just as the artist intended, Mojo 2 brings you closer to the music. M
Almost seven years after Chord Electronics created the high-end portable DAC genre, the company’s long-standing digital design consultant, Rob Watts, has revisited, reimagined and reengineered the award-winning original Mojo with ground-breaking, world-first technology.
Product of the Year Award
The Chord Mojo 2 won a 2024 Product of the Year Award for Best DAC £300-£700 from What Hi-Fi? magazine, which observes, "The Chord Mojo 2 remains the DAC to beat in its class."
"Familiar in form but next-level everywhere else, the Mojo 2 is the The Godfather Part II of DAC sequels… Refinements help give the Mojo 2 a more neutral, crisper and livelier character than its predecessor, whose presentation ultimately feels comparatively confined and a little coloured. Music has the vividity of a stained glass window here – bright, intricate and demanding of your attention."
More Award-Winning Performance
What Hi-Fi? magazine gave the Mojo 2 its Best Portable DAC Award for 2024, plus a Five Star review.
"We aren’t exaggerating in saying that Chord has advanced the Mojo in pretty much every sonic area. The Mojo’s soundstage has been opened up for the sequel and that extra depth and dimension has been filled with greater resolution that is not only unmistakably present thanks to a big boost in clarity but also more precisely placed," notes Becky Roberts in the July 1 2024 issue.
England's hi-fi+ magazine honored the Chord Mojo 2 with an Editor's Choice Award for 2024. "In our test, we felt the Mojo 2 is all about flexibility. It can be used as a portable audio headphone amplifier and DAC or connected into a desktop or even full-sized system. It can be used without any form of signal processing or transparently boosting or cutting upper bass and midrange for a more exciting or relaxed sound."
"Not only is this little box of tricks a powerhouse in its own right, but it is also the gateway to a world of outstanding digital audio made by Chord Electronics."
"Best Sounding DAC at Its Price Point"
"I might not know with 100% certainty if the Mojo 2 is the best-sounding DAC at its price point but it’s certainly up there with the very best of them," raves John Darko, darko.audio, December 6, 2022. "However, on functional versatility, it is unsurpassed. And it’s that top-tier audible performance combined with a heavy dose of go-anywhere usability that makes it Darko.Audio’s Best DAC of 2022."
"For one who adores dual-purpose items which do more than they need to, the Mojo 2 is a little miracle," reports Ken Kessler, Hi-Fi News, May 20, 2022. "You want to know how it serves as a portable DAC and headphone amp: I cannot name a better one. The real surprise, though, is using it in a home sound system. This isn't just a great mobile DAC/amp, it's a red-hot (metaphorically) bargain DAC for any use."
"[If] you want to take your desktop audio experience to the next level (and the level after that, to be fair), you simply cannot do better than the Chord Electronics Mojo 2 - not on a pound-for-pound basis, anyhow,” raves Simon Lucas, avforums.com, June 26, 2023. “t’s the most eloquent, engaging and open-sounding DAC/headphone amp you can buy for anything like this money."
Packed with New Features and Technology
The Mojo 2 benefits from several new features, chief of which is a revolutionary lossless DSP, the first of its kind anywhere. The innovative new ‘UHD DSP’ is fully transparent, enabling comprehensive tone adjustments across the frequency range, without any degradation in sound quality. The new technology gives Mojo 2 unrivalled compatibility with today’s wide-ranging choice of headphones, regardless of type and sonic signature, plus flexibility with different source components and digital file types.
A further key feature is the introduction of a menu system. Navigated via a new (fourth) control sphere, the menu brings a mute function, four-setting crossfeed adjustment, a button-lock feature for travelling, plus the fully lossless tone controls.
New USB-C Data Input
Digital inputs have increased to four, thanks to a new USB-C data input for greater flexibility. USB-C is featured alongside optical, coaxial (including dual-data for the Chord M Scaler – optional, sold separately), and Micro USB. Two 3.5 mm mini-jack headphone outputs allow up to two people to listen simultaneously.
Better Battery and Charging
Mojo 2 benefits from greatly improved battery management, thanks to a new FPGA-based battery-charging system. The tech brings much faster charging rates, coupled with a huge 75% reduction in power loss for cooler, more efficient charging. Capacity is up by 9%, resulting in better efficiency and improved battery life, which is now better than eight hours.
Mojo 2’s established ‘Intelligent Desktop Mode’ technology has also been improved, with an isolated battery and PSU redesign to support battery-free operation without any losses in sound quality, plus improved filtering and isolation.
Improved Transparency
Mojo 2 is now DC-coupled with a digital DC servo. It benefits from an improved WTA (Watts Transient Aligned) filter, now offering 40,960 taps (the technical indicator of how complex the interpolation filter is), using 40 DSP cores.
Additionally, an improved noise-shaper offers greater depth and detail perception, plus improvements to the 4e Pulse Array DAC introduce lower distortion and out-of-band noise. Greater neutrality has also been achieved, thanks to the elimination of coupling capacitors.
"You Simply Can't Do Better"
"As a DAC the Chord Mojo 2 is quite an accomplishment. After all, it does equate to the summit of all of Chord’s accomplishments, and it will crush almost any chip-based DAC, which pretty much means anything in its price range, reports Gary Alan Barker, headphone.guru, June 5, 2023.
"If you are looking for a portable DAC/Headphone amplifier for under $1,000 you simply can’t do better than the Chord Mojo2."
New Fully Transparent UHD DSP
Mojo 2 benefits from the world’s first fully transparent ‘UHD DSP’. The proprietary technology uses a 104-bit custom DSP core running at 705/768 kHz. No other audio DSP offers the same accuracy. By using 104 bits plus extensive internal noise-shaping, Mojo 2 can deliver complete transparency by preserving the filtering of ultra-small signals. The unique UHD DSP enables fine-tuning across the full frequency range with 18 steps of adjustment per frequency banding: lower bass, mid-bass, lower treble and high treble.
The volume control range has also been improved from +18 dB to -108 dB, and now benefits from two distinct operational ranges: low and high volume. A new four-setting crossfeed function, also DSP-controlled, brings speaker-like spatial effects for flexible headphone listening.
Class-Leading Build Quality
The Mojo 2 is designed, engineered, and handmade in the UK. It benefits from high-grade, bead-blasted aluminum casework with a high-quality black anodized finish. Control is via four polychromatic polycarbonate control spheres.
Go Wireless with Poly
Mojo 2 is fully compatible with the Chord Poly streamer/server(optional, sold separately), enabling high-resolution streaming and up to 2 TB of solid-state library storage and playback when using the microSD card slots.
"I Was Very Impressed"
"Subjectively, I wasn’t much of a fan of the original Mojo," admits Cameron Oatley, headphones.com, November 19, 2022. "But after trying the Mojo 2 at a meet I was very impressed, and later purchased one to use as my personal on-the-go source. This unit was purchased with my own funds at full retail price."
"You will enjoy the Mojo 2 sound," reports Mojo 2 owner jjazzy, head-fi.org, July 24, 2024. Once you used to the natural sounding DAC of Chord, it is hard to go back. For the money it is extremely cheap, and with its desktop mode which saves battery degradation, it is very nice desktop option."
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