As far as I can tell Mojo’s approach isn’t about exotic topologies, or unusual tubes or innovative filters or anything. It’s just about a tried and true design using the best components, the most over engineered everything, including…a bulletproof case.
Add all that up and it sounds like it equals amazing!
Update on this, raising the timeout between tracks when there’s a format change to 1 second completely gets rid of the problem. Not a deal breaker obviously but just stuff to keep in mind when committing to older tech.
That’s interesting, I haven’t had to do this with the Mystique V3, which I would assume is even older. I did have some syncing problems when plugging USB straight into my laptop (this eventually fixed itself with an isolator), but when using a streamer, it was pretty smooth sailing for me. (Note that I’m using a DDC these days, so I haven’t tested this in a while.)
P.S. Also super-excited for you and I’m glad you’re loving the sound so far! 
The problem may be more in the dCS bridge than the Mojo, but I can only change it on Mojo two digital devices separated by a couple of decades talking to one another. 
It’s a miracle they communicate at all. Remember when Mac and Windows were completely different universes?
Congrats on the solution!
More listening observations on the Mojo EVO 21 B4B+
It’s weird having to describe the Mojo as a signature. I’ve struggled to come up with what I’m hearing different here and it’s difficult. It’s always hard to listen to a system and know what’s responsible for what in the final product but here in my own system, where I’m intimately familiar with the “what’s what” I’m struggling to put my finger on it.
This DAC does two things, one it wants to play every song in your collection, it’s like it wants to prove to you that it can. I’d gotten so accustomed to hitting the fast forward button on some tracks because they were too much, either too harsh or too poorly recorded or the source material was too low a quality. This thing is able to play it all, it’s antithetic to the common wisdom in the hobby.
The other thing this DAC does is suck you in. I’ve found myself missing some of the timbre and some of the organic ability of the Weiss and saying to myself that sound was reproduced so convincingly real. The DAC however has a way of sucking you into the music, as if you were watching a performance of the music you’re playing. It’s not just a stereo image, it’s a presence and a feeling of BEING in a space with the music as opposed to having a great rendition of that space. It’s a sensory mind fuck and it’s like nothing I’ve experienced before.
It will only do this with the great recordings, but I find myself time and time again getting sucked into the environment it creates for you and more often than not, instead of trying to analyze the why at that point in time, I just let it go and enjoy the experience.
I’d already accepted the no one speaker does it all mantra. I think that same mantra applies to DACs. If I had a fat wallet I’d keep another high end DAC ($10K plus) in my quiver but since I don’t, and my desire is to listen to music, I can’t ask for anything more from this Mojo than what it already provides me. Really just sublime listening sessions time and time again.
Sounds awesome thanks for sharing. Is the timbre and organicness something you think the higher end Mojos will improve or it’s just the signature?
This is the high end of the Mojo line technically, the PRO has a more expensiver power core and more robust RF and EMI shilding but by all accounts it’s not much of a difference. I’ve also spoken to folks that have tried the XSE and described it as putting a little hot sauce on the gourmet home cooking that is the EVO line. 
I think the signature is just not that. That’s why you NEED multiple very expensive DACs. lol
@dB_Cooper You’ve really nailed the Mojo sound. When I got my Mystique X SE, I couldn’t put what I was hearing into “audiophile language”. I’d discovered that the results of getting the DAC was that not only was I listening to more music, I was listening to more types of music and in particular, I was listening to more on my speakers, but I had no idea how to articulate why. I didn’t know how to translate what I was hearing into highs, lows and mids, timbre, holographic blah blah blah.
I’ve thrown every genre I own at the DAC (rock, indie, punk, modern pop, 40’s & 50’s pop, acoustic jazz, electric jazz, chamber music, orchestral etc etc) and it all sounds great. But saying that all music sounds even more great than with my Yggy (which I had loved) just seemed lame. For me, the thing that stands out about the Mojo is that it gets the timing right, so rhythm just flows in a very natural way.
I’m not sure what the official definition of “organic” is, but I’d say that the Mojo Mystique X SE, which is the current top model, sounds very organic to me.
BTW, when I bought mine, I talked to the owner, Ben, and asked if I should buy the Mystique X or a demo EVO (and I think it was the TOTL EVO) that he was selling for the same price and he said that the Mystique X sounded better than the EVO. He used a lot of hyperbole about the Mystique X being more musical, more coherent, more of a snapshot into the music. I discounted all that as him being a salesman, but bought the Mystique X because of the 45 day return policy and found that it is musical, coherent and a snapshot of the music, so maybe his hyperbole was correct.
The Mystique X SE seems to have been a happy little accident and yeah it’s clearly the top of the line and not by design! I’m happy that I have a path forward with the Mojo line should I ever want more. Maybe Ben will revisit the EVO line as that’s what he’d stated originally. For now I feel as what I have is all level appropriate and it’s probably my speakers that are the bottle neck.
I agree, the Mystique X was mean to be his “budget” line but he discovered that it sounded better, or at least as good as the EVO. It actually speaks to Ben’s character that he decided not to throttle the performance of the X so that he could have 2 lines.
I do seem to be following a similar path to you, as I’ve found that Mojo and LTA are a marriage made in heaven for musicality. Like you, I’m headed down the Omega speaker path. LOL my Emotiva speakers are currently a bottleneck, so the Omegas should be a nice upgrade for me.
Maybe we’ll both be ready for an upgrade at the same time. Talk to me then. lol
Part of me wants to go the DeVore Super Nines route because they paired exceptionally well with the LTA UL+ but I’ve been smitten by the single source full range high efficiency driver and I’ve completely bought into their stage presence and imaging and so a Voxativ would be a big lure as well. I know I’m getting all of what the Omegas are capable of at the moment and I’m shocked as to how well they’ve scaled. As well as benefiting from improved footing of the granite plinth and anti resonant feet.
LTA, Omega, DeVore… I need to stop reading this thread lol
Definitely avoid products from the Audio Group Denmark then, lol. Borresen, Ansuz, and Aavik products will make you cry 
Someone I know is getting married soon, they’ll probably put some of their shit up for sale once the wedding bills start coming in. 
Said as I booked a $600 flight for a friends wedding. I may need to put things up soon too…
another listening session this evening;
Thinking about your comment here and you’re right. Organic is not the right word because by definition organic; relating or derived from living mater, and the DAC is plenty of that it’s one of the reasons it presents sound the way it does. My meaning was more about the realism of a sound that would come from something organic that would be a known quantity. The vibrations of a reed in a woodwind instrument or the vibration of a drumhead. The realization that real doesn’t mean musical. It’s fun as hell to hear something that just sounds as if it was generated right there for the first time, not from a recorded piece. The Mojo doesn’t have the same sense of realism but what it does is magical in the way it presents sound, you get an enjoyment from that presentation and your brain doesn’t process that sound as real but it does process the sounds as right in space and time in the area of music that sits in the same space you’re sitting in. It’s just words at this point cause I don’t know what else really to say. This higher end Mojo sound is a different sound and it’s all its own.
Youre really making me want to grab on of the two EVOs that are listed used right now.
Yeah, that’s the problem.
I’ll have to find a way to test Mojo with my system. Same with Lampizator. Would love to compare to my Rockna.