I also want to clear up some comments I’ve read by people like Devertiti.
Mojo Audio DACs are engineered for natural, neutral, and harmonically coherent sound.
This will not appeal to everyone.
To over simplify, I divide high end audio customers in to two categories: the audiophile and the music lover.
Audiophiles will talk about things like bass extension and weight, high end extension and penetration, image, depth, and layering.
None of those things have anything to do with music. Those are what I call "special effects" and "attractive distortion."
Music lovers talk about things like time, tune, harmonic coherency, and the ways instruments and voices intermingle.
Time and tune: that’s music on the written page. The most basic components of all music.
Harmonic coherency is the mathematical alignment of all frequencies. When a note is struck it has harmonics at twice the frequency and half the amplitude going up to infinity. Alignment of the bass, mid, and high frequency harmonics is essential for music to have an organic character.
I’ve been told by customers "no matter how loud I play my Mojo Audio DAC it never sounds loud." This is because all the harmonics align perfectly.
This is also what gives Audiophiles the illusion (or rather delusion) that our DACs have less resolution than some of these other more impressively "voiced" DACs. When harmonics don’t align it gives a false sense of separation, layering, and resolution. Sort of like a black outline around animation. It makes things "pop" at the expense of no longer sounding natural and organic.
Those of you who actually listen to live acoustic music all know that the separation of instruments and pin point imaging that many audiophiles are looking for simply does not exist in the real world. It is a trick of the recording studio.
Let me finish by staying there is no right or wrong here. Everyone is entitled to have the sound they prefer.
If you’re looking for that "larger than life" sound that many audiophiles desire, then there are several DACs on the market with FPGAs, Delta-Sigma DAC chips, and impressively voiced output stages to choose from.
If you’re looking for a natural and neutral sound with correct time, tune, and harmonic coherency, I suggest you audition one of my DACs with our 45-day no-risk audition.
Mojo Audio DACs are engineered for natural, neutral, and harmonically coherent sound.
This will not appeal to everyone.
To over simplify, I divide high end audio customers in to two categories: the audiophile and the music lover.
Audiophiles will talk about things like bass extension and weight, high end extension and penetration, image, depth, and layering.
None of those things have anything to do with music. Those are what I call "special effects" and "attractive distortion."
Music lovers talk about things like time, tune, harmonic coherency, and the ways instruments and voices intermingle.
Time and tune: that’s music on the written page. The most basic components of all music.
Harmonic coherency is the mathematical alignment of all frequencies. When a note is struck it has harmonics at twice the frequency and half the amplitude going up to infinity. Alignment of the bass, mid, and high frequency harmonics is essential for music to have an organic character.
I’ve been told by customers "no matter how loud I play my Mojo Audio DAC it never sounds loud." This is because all the harmonics align perfectly.
This is also what gives Audiophiles the illusion (or rather delusion) that our DACs have less resolution than some of these other more impressively "voiced" DACs. When harmonics don’t align it gives a false sense of separation, layering, and resolution. Sort of like a black outline around animation. It makes things "pop" at the expense of no longer sounding natural and organic.
Those of you who actually listen to live acoustic music all know that the separation of instruments and pin point imaging that many audiophiles are looking for simply does not exist in the real world. It is a trick of the recording studio.
Let me finish by staying there is no right or wrong here. Everyone is entitled to have the sound they prefer.
If you’re looking for that "larger than life" sound that many audiophiles desire, then there are several DACs on the market with FPGAs, Delta-Sigma DAC chips, and impressively voiced output stages to choose from.
If you’re looking for a natural and neutral sound with correct time, tune, and harmonic coherency, I suggest you audition one of my DACs with our 45-day no-risk audition.
