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Chord Electronics has a proven track record for world leading digital and analog technology delivering brilliant sound in eye-catching components with a high-tech industrial aesthetic.

The unifying concept across all products from British company Chord Electronics is to preserve transients, energy and dynamics in reproduced sound. These properties capture the essence of musical expression central to the art of performing artists, and this is why Chord Electronics is used in professional recording studios and commercial venues. Removing these properties either in recording or playback leaves reproduced music sounding ho-hum lacking in excitement, drama and engagement. The new Quartet Upscaler from Chord Electonics removes another constraining factor of digital music that will delight recording professionals and music lovers alike.

Starting with the source Chord Electronics has low noise analog phono stages and a range of ultra precision DACs (particularly known for) that don't use typical off-the-shelf chips. When the timing of digital signals is preserved, sound quality improves with more timbral, texture, transient and spatial information differentiation.

Chord Electronics was one of the first companies to FPGA chips (progammable chip architecture) in their DACs delivering measureable performance advantages over off-the-shelf DAC chips. The new "Quartet upscaler" makes further use of this approach on a massive scale which when used in conjunction with the Dave DAC delivers extremely close to perfect analog waveforms.

To drive loudspeakers, recording studios use Chord Electronics amplifiers because the energy they can deliver retains the dynamics of the input signal and they are designed to handle large voltage swings without loosing their composure. They are also very reliable. Advanced switch mode power supplies, with self-compensating virtual gyroscopic-like balanced positive and negative voltage rails, comfortably handle sudden transient demands. It's about keeping the contrasts rather than just making everything loud.

Proprietary dual-die MOSFET transistors and dual feed-forward error correction used in the Ultima products reduces distortion over a wider bandwidth giving very clean high frequency treble, a life-like transparent midrange, and a tuneful, articulate, on-the-beat bass.

Chord Electronics is also know for it's variety of package formats in which many of the technologies used in the larger components are trickled down into portable, tranportable, desktop and compact sized systems for all uses and environments. In 2025 Chord Electronics introduced a radically different interlocking component system, 'SUZI' that is both powerful and compact with multiple configuration options.

Pride of ownership is enhanced by distinctive visually interesting industrial designs using very durable materials and color coded control operation taking the products out of the ordinary.