The streaming module 2go was announced long ago. At the Norddeutsche Hifi-Tage I could see an early prototype, and now the extension to the HUGO 2 is available. It turns the mobile converter-headphone combination into a digital audio player - but a tablet or smartphone is still needed as display and control panel.

As Roland Dietl's report on the HUGO 2 and the description of my experiences with a special Chord Company cable between No. 2 and Chord Electronics' M-Scaler show, the current HUGO not only makes a very good figure in mobile applications, but can also compete and beat many established stationary D/A converters - some of them in a much higher price range. On the road, however, its concept proves to be not very convenient: Only when it obtains its data from the smartphone via Bluetooth - but which audiophile can accept this transmission path? - no additional cables are needed. 

However, if you want to feed the HUGO with high-resolution music data, you need an external memory, this could be a simple DAP, which bypasses the converter and headphone amplifier, or a smartphone, which can also be connected via cable and, if necessary, with an adapter. This is exactly how it was with the product one level below the Hugo2, the MOJO, which is more compact. Additional cables and players caricature the mobile concept here even more. Probably for this reason, Chord first added a small, fine streaming module to the MOJO - which should stand for "mobile joy" - the POLY, which turned the combination of converter & headphone into a digital audio player without display.