What Hi-Fi? Best DAC: Chord’s Mojo 2 & Qutest
What Hi-Fi? have awarded Chord Electronics’ Mojo and Qutest DACs. They are enjoying continued acclaim in these Awards, the biggest honours in the audio industry, as once again, the Kent company’s British-made digital-to-analogue converters have achieved outstanding recognition.
The Mojo 2 and the Qutest have both been crowned with 2025 What Hi-Fi? Best Buy Awards in their respective price categories:
https://www.whathifi.com/hi-fi/dacs/best-dacs-2025
The Mojo 2 has been named Best DAC under £500.
The Qutest has been named Best DAC over £500.
With only two ‘Best DAC’ honours in the entire 2025 Awards, Chord Electronics has remarkably secured both of them, achieving a clean sweep of the category. The dominance is a testament to the Kent company’s unrivalled proprietary digital technologies and insistence on superior FPGA-based DAC designs.
An unprecedented legacy of success
This year’s accolades further cement the extraordinary track record of both the Mojo 2 and the Qutest. The Qutest has now been awarded ‘Best DAC’ for an unparalleled eighth year in succession, a truly remarkable feat for any DAC. The Mojo 2 extends its own impressive run, winning ‘Best DAC’ for the fourth year in a row.
What’s more, when combining the success of the Mojo 2 with its pioneering predecessor, the original Mojo (which won every successive year from its 2015 launch until 2022), a Mojo DAC has now been awarded ‘Best DAC’ for an incredible eleven years in succession.
These latest What Hi-Fi? Awards once again shine a light on the core principles that define Chord Electronics’ DACs: a unique FPGA approach to digital-to-analogue conversion, a commitment to British manufacturing, the utilisation of advanced, proprietary technologies refined over decades with the company’s digital design consultant, Rob Watts.
The success of the Mojo 2 and Qutest forms part of a much longer history of recognition for Chord Electronics DACs, including previous honours for the Hugo 2, its predecessor Hugo (2014), and the Qutest’s own lineage, stretching back to 2013.
The multi-award-winning Mojo 2 is available now, priced at £395, the Qutest is priced at £1,195.