Chord Electronics MOJO Reviews

The Chord Mojo is a milestone piece for me.  The size, the feel and the look are great.  It is small enough to take with you.  Oh, yes the sound is really great.  It drives all of my IEMs and more.  I have used it in a full on speaker system, my desktop listening DAC.   For me the the Mojo shines as my take with me quality listening system.  I use it with either IEMs or the LCD-i4 Planar headphones.

As I had mentioned in my review of the Hugo 2 the main worry I have about the Mojo are the two MicroUSB power and data ports.  I never liked them from a mechanical standpoint.

The Mojo is a Goldilocks Moment DAC/AMP.   It does not sound quite as good as the Hugo 2, but it is more portable.  Is it 4  or 5 stars because of that?  I was only going to give it four stars because the Hugo 2 is so outstanding.  Yet, the Mojo is really five stars in the price and size class with some of the best sound you can buy.

I'm quite impressed with the Chord Mojo. I originally purchased it because I wanted a better portable headphone amp to  use at work with iPhone and Audeze Sine headphones.

This works quite well with Qobuz, lots of meaty tone color, good dynamics, percussive transient details, a level of performance that doesn't fatigue/disinterest over 7-8 hours

of constant use. But what really pleased me was its performance in my home system. Its displaced  a Schiit multibit Gungnir because it has better linearity at the top and low end of the spectrum; goes deeper  on bass and has the sheen on cymbals that was missing. The internal battery can be disconnected allowing you to use an external power supply,  and I find

that powering it with an LPS 1.2 improves things further. At some point I'll take a next step in the Chord line but for now the adage "if it's not broke, don't fix it" applies. The only

negative for home system use is the mini connectors, right now I'm having to use Audioquest adaptors for the Lush 2 USB and Kimber Hero RCA interconnects.