Hegel Mohican

摘要

After Fenimore Cooper, Hegel is punting its £4000 Mohican as 'The Last...' CD player. There's no digital audio input, no doubling as a DAC, and no SACD - which is all very unusual in 2016. But there's always an argument for a product that does just one thing supremely well. Like Hegel's HD30 DAC [HFN Jan'16], the Mohican uses a 32-bit AKM AK4490 converter run in native 44.1 kHz/16-bit resolution, so there's no upsampling, and in turn this allows a simple digital filter option. Hegel's proprietary SoundEngine 'real-time distortion detector/ eliminator circuit' for amplifiers has also found an application in the Mohican, where it's used to 'clean up' the drive for the DAC's master clock. It's claimed that this pushes phase noise down below that seen in the HD30 outboard DAC.