Chord Poly Hi-Fi Music Streamer now in PH, unveiled by Chord Electronics & Beyond Innovations

Enjoy hi-fidelity sound with Chord's latest product to give the ultimate music experience on the go with Chord Electronics' Poly. An Advanced streamer that combines with Mojo to wirelessly stream music from a range of devices, with smartphone control.

Chord Electronic and Beyond Innovations introduced Chord Poly, a streamer that turns your smartphone to a hi-fi quality music player. During the Poly launch(9th of Nov), attended by different audiophile groups in PH, dealers and selected member of Press/Media, Chord Electronics wiz and creator of Poly shared to us how he came up with the idea on how he can bring the Hi-Fi music listening experience to the next level.

With the launch of Poly in PH, Beyond Innovations made sure that our audiophiles our up-to-date with the latest audio gear to keep their music listening beyond par, since their partnership started back in 2015

CHORD Mojo + Poly

Poly when partnered with the Mojo DAC, enables music streamed from a range of wirelessly connected devices(even NAS HDDs) to be enjoyed in the best possible sound quality, whether at home or on the go. It's is a ground-breaking portable music streamer, and the first of its kind in the world.

Poly supports unlimited-capacity Micro SD card slot can house huge libraries and liberate storage on smart devices. You can put in the latest high-capacity microSD out there and Poly can stream music from it.

POLY supports the latest studio-quality files; PCM data up to 768kHz resolution and DSD64 to DSD256 (Quad-DSD). Supported file types include ACC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, OGG VORBIS, ALAC, WMA and MP3.

Like Mojo, Poly proudly uses British design and technology and is also proudly made in Britain. It’s precision CNC-machined from solid aluminium billet with black anodisation and laser-ablated logos. A high-quality Mojo/Poly protective leather case is available separately.

Features and specifications:

• Materials: Precision-machined aluminium casing with black anodisation, opaque black wireless signal window and silicone feet (protective leather case available)
• Battery: Rechargeable LiPo (Lithium Polymer) 2200mAh; play time: 9+ hours
• Charging: Sub-four hours, 2-amp Micro USB input. Both Mojo and Poly can be simultaneously charged via Poly’s fast-charging Micro USB circuit
• Connectivity types: Bluetooth 4.1 and Wi-Fi 2.4GHz (for optimum stability)
• Storage: Micro SD unlimited maximum capacity, playback using MPD/DLNA apps plus SD playback over Bluetooth if Wi-Fi is absent
• Playback support: DNLA, AirPlay and Bluetooth 4.1
• Files supported: all major file types including ACC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, OGG VORBIS, ALAC, WMA and MP3
• PCM sample rates: 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88.2kHz, 96kHz, 176.4kHz, 192kHz, 358.8kHz, 384kHz,717.6kHz and 768kHz
• DSD via DoP sample rates: DSD64 – DSD256 (Quad-DSD); DSD from SD card
• Devices supported: iPhone, iPad, Android phones/tablets, Windows and Mac OS X computers and DAPs (Astell & Kern etc)
• Dimensions: 50mm (L) x 62mm (W) x 22mm (H)
• Over-the-air software updates
• Hotspot mode: Poly can create its own hotspot where networks/devices/countries don’t support tethering
• Integrated Access Point: allows configuration of connected networks (up to 32)
• Bit-perfect audio
• DLNA server and renderer (SD card); SMB Server (SD card); MPD player (SD Card)

You can get your own Poly in the Philippines for Php 34,990, starting November 9th, 2017. Chord  Mojo is currently priced at  Php 27,990. CHORD Electronics It'll will be available through A. Refinery, Beyond Innovations, and its dealers.  You can also get a Poly/Mojo leather case for PHP 4,995