Few real-world (read: not ludicrously expensive) products can be considered real game changers in hi-fi, but in 2015 the Chord Mojo burst onto the then-fledgling portable DAC/headphone amplifier scene as one of them, flag in hand and ready to claim territory.
The palm-sized device justified its elongated name (‘Mobile Joy’), pushing the parameters of what was possible for compact, on-the-go sound quality in the three-figure price domain – so much so that it set the performance benchmark at its level, largely uncontested, right up until it was discontinued in late 2021.
