Joenit Music at the heart of electronics
Joenit Chord Electronics Operated by Joenit

Chord Electronics

Huei

← Back to Huei

Entirely conceived, engineered and manufactured in Great Britain, Huei has been carefully designed to provide turntables with the same high standards of amplification that Chord Electronics has become known for over the past 30 years.

Benefitting from both Moving Magnet and Moving Coil functionality, Huei offers compatibility with a huge range of cartridges thanks to comprehensive gain and impedance-matching options; Huei's high- and low-gain switching settings are easily accessible via front-panel controls, introducing welcome flexibility.

Huei's advanced design offers (for the first time in a Chord Electronics phono preamp) ultra-low-noise microprocessor control of its main features, including a convenient memory function. With multiple options for impedance-matching, eight-stage switchable gain and a switchable rumble filter, Huei's design offers comprehensive compatibility.

Front of the black Huei: the four illuminated control spheres MM/MC, RUMBLE, GAIN and IMPEDANCE, the engraved Huei name and the viewing window in the top panel

Precision-machined from solid aircraft-grade aluminium billet, Huei has a similar form factor to the company's Qutest DAC and also offers a top-mounted viewing window into the illuminated electronics within. The design also shares the same polychromatic control spheres the company has become known for in its digital products. The illuminated front-panel spheres offer direct access to Huei's gain and impedance settings, selection for MM/MC cartridges and access to the on-board rumble filter.

Huei is a stylish, practical and high-performance solution for integrating turntables into Chord Electronics' (and other) systems and features both unbalanced (RCA) and balanced outputs (XLR) with RCA inputs. A high-quality 12V external power supply is also supplied.

More photographs

The Huei from directly above: the top-mounted window onto the electronics inside, the four control spheres and the gold RCA connections along the rear edge
The Huei in three-quarter view, showing the shallow machined chassis and the four lit spheres
Rear of the Huei: 12 V DC inlet and power switch, unbalanced RCA outputs and inputs for right and left, and the two balanced XLR outputs

The story on this page is Chord Electronics's own, reprinted by Joenit, its official distributor.