Chord Electronics Wins Half of the What Hi-Fi DAC Awards

Chord Electronics wins half of the What Hi-Fi? 2023 DAC Awards

Mojo 2 was voted Best DAC £300-£1000 for the second year and Qutest Best DAC £1,000+ for the sixth year!

12 October 2023: Kent-based amplifier and digital audio expert Chord Electronics has won half of the What Hi-Fi? Awards 2023 in the ‘Best DAC’ category.

The company’s portable Mojo 2 DAC/headphone amplifier won ‘Best DAC’ £300-£1,000 for a second year in row, while the more powerful Qutest DAC won ‘Best DAC’ over £1,000 for an impressive sixth year in succession.

Both the Mojo 2 and the Qutest DACs have benefited from significant price reductions in 2023, following reduced global chipset prices, post-pandemic. The Mojo 2 is now available for £395 (was £495) and the Qutest is now priced at £1,195 (was £1,395).

The most prized global awards in hi-fi have now been awarded to Chord Electronics’ British designed, engineered and manufactured DACs for a decade. Notably, the original 2015-launched Mojo won a ‘Best DAC’ Award every year until its replacement in 2022.

The 2023 Awards acknowledge Chord Electronics’ DACs from £300 to over £1,000, in recognition of the company’s class-leading proprietary digital conversion technologies, developed by Digital Design Consultant Rob Watts, which are applied to powerful programmable chipsets (FPGAs), bringing class-leading technical and sonic performance.

The company’s celebrated What Hi-Fi? Awards success extends far beyond the Mojo 2 and Qutest, with previous awards for the existing Hugo 2 and its predecessor, Hugo (2014), plus the Qutest predecessors: the 2Qute; the QuteEX and the QuteHD, as far back as 2013.