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Ferrum Wandla HP - High-End DAC, Preamp & Headphone Amplifier
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Reviews & Awards
"The Wandla is another hit from Polish company Ferrum Audio. Nicknamed "The Convertor", this innovative DAC/preamplifier goes one step further thanks to its combination of an ESS Sabre DAC chip, a custom DSP and bespoke analogue electronics. The performance is outstanding: music of any genre is reproduced with great detail, while the "Dynamic Digital Filtering" with filters from specialist software house Signalyst offers options for refining the listening experience.
Want to further improve the performance of the Wandla? Simply add the EISA Award-winning Hypsos as an external power supply for just under 1,200 euros to achieve an even more audiophile sound."
"The highest award we have right now is the Golden Award, but as we're slowly transitioning to Soundnews 2.0 (you probably saw by now all the new categories and additional features), we will be adding a higher tier in the near future, which I feel Ferrum's team fully deserved. A Gold Award will suffice for now for the hard work involved, and ultimately, for the performance you are getting in return. I think that's a bargain knowing how it performed in both a stereo and headphone setup."
Ferrum Audio WANDLA DAC Review – Thinking Outside the Box - Soundnews
"WANDLA is a DAC that is not only musically convincing across the board, but full of innovations with fantastic workmanship, an independent, compact and timeless design at a more than fair price from European development and production. What more could an audiophile heart want? The engineers at Ferrum have created their masterpiece with the WANDLA."
HIFI STATEMENT | netmagazine - Ferrum WANDLA
"The dominant thing is Wandla's gestalt of textural/tonal elegance coupled to darkness whose degree is adjustable with the Hypsos power supply. Cogito, ergo sum . This Roman proverb usually translates as “I think, therefore I am” . Today we might propose a new audiophile proverb: I think, therefore I Wandla!"
Ferrum Wandla + Hypsos review | Darko.Audio
A real eye-catcher
Ferrum introduces the newest member of the WANDLA family, WANDLA HP. Ferrum's journey up the HiFi chain has led them to HYPSOS, their revolutionary hybrid power system, OOR, their flagship headphone amplifier, ERCO, their entry-level DAC and WANDLA, their flagship DAC.
What these products have in common is their upgradability with HYPSOS. WANDLA HP is perfect for headphone enthusiasts and sits between the entry-level and super flagship level.
WANDLA HP is essentially WANDLA with a great sounding headphone amplifier. It will satisfy those who are looking for more than what ERCO has to offer, but are not yet ready for WANDLA combined with OOR, the super flagship.
Ferrum engineers have taken all the great options and specifications of WANDLA and integrated a powerful, fully balanced composite circuit headphone amplifier whose quality level is very close to that of OOR.
As with all Ferrum devices, you can reach for the stars by combining WANDLA HP with HYPSOS. It looks good, it's all about the music and it's a guaranteed eye-catcher.
WANDLA HP, including premium headphone amplifier
With WANDLA HP you get all WANDLA features:
• Tomorrow's high-end audio today
• Finely tuned DA conversion
• SERCE
• Dynamic digital filtering
• Optimized digital inputs
• Truly symmetrical operation
• And we've included a premium headphone amplifier!
Completely symmetrical
WANDLA HP features a fully balanced composite IC headphone amplifier design that is fine-tuned for WANDLA. Powerful - WANDLA HP's headphone amplifier can output a whopping 3.5 watts at 50 Ω (balanced). Dynamic - WANDLA HP's headphone amplifier has an impressive dynamic range of 122 dB.
Made for HYPSOS
WANDLA HP works perfectly out of the box, but you can increase its performance even further by combining it with HYPSOS. By using the proprietary Ferrum Power Link (FPL) connection with 4TSD voltage measurement, both components reach their absolute peak performance and unfold an unprecedented musicality
Technical data
headphone section
THD balanced: 0.00016% / -116 dB, 10 mW into 50 Ω; 0.00020% / -114 dB, 100 mW into 50 Ω
THD unbalanced: 0.00022% / -113 dB, 10 mW into 50 Ω; 0.00022% / -113 dB, 100 mW into 50 Ω
Outp. Pwr SE: 1 W into 50 Ω
Outp. Pwr Bal.: 3.5 W into 50 Ω
Dynamic range: 122 dB
HP Output imp.: 0.5 Ω unbalanced, 1 Ω balanced
Freq. response: 3 Hz - 900 kHz
Additional data
Operation: Fully balanced, proprietary IC line amp
DAC chip: ESS Sabre ES9038PRO
DAC resolution: 768k/32bit, DSD 256
Digital inputs:
- AES/EBU (up to 192 kHz/24bit, DoP 64)
- Optical S/PDIF (up to 96 kHz/24bit)
- Coaxial S/PDIF (up to 192 kHz/24bit, DoP 64)
- USB-C (up to 768 kHz/32bit, DSD 256)
- ARC (up to 192 kHz/24bit), TV input with CEC
- I2S (up to 768 kHz/32bit, DSD 256), PS Audio® compatible
MQA: decoder and renderer (on all digital inputs) with bypass mode
Analog inputs: RCA
Analog input Vmax: 9.5 V RMS (2 – 3.5 V RMS recommended)
Analogue input imp: 47 kΩ
Line outputs: balanced XLR; unbalanced RCA
Volume control: analogue with bypass option / digital for DAC operation only
Output level PRO: @0 dBFS, 1 kHz sine 10 V RMS balanced, 5 V RMS unbalanced
Output level REDbook: @0 dBFS, 1 kHz sine 4 V RMS balanced, 2 V RMS unbalanced
Frequency response: 10 Hz - 200 kHz +/- 0.1 dB analog inputs
DAC THD: -121dB (0.00009%); THD+N: -115 dB (unweighted)
Analog input THD: -123dB @ 2V RMS output level
Dyn.range analog: 127 dB (A-weighted)
Dyn. range digital: 122 dB (A-weighted)
Crosstalk: -120 dB for 1kHz, better than -100 dB for 20Hz -20kHz
Output impedance: 22 Ω unbalanced
Output impedance: 44 Ω balanced
Power consumption: 13 W idle (amp off) / 18 W idle (amp on) / 35 W max.
Power inputs: 5.5/2.5 mm DC connector center positive, Proprietary FPL 4-pin DC connector (FPL) 22-30 VDC
Power adapter: 100-240VAC to 24VDC
Dimensions: (WxDxH) 8.6 x 8.1 x 2.0 inch / 1.7 x 20.6 x 5 cm
Remote control: included
Weight: 1.9 kg / 4.19 lb
High-End Audio of Tomorrow Today
As modern DAC WANDLA points the way for the high end of tomorrow at today's price level, because WANDLA offers top audio quality at an unprecedented price.
Finely tuned DA conversion
WANDLA is the embodiment of Ferrum’s digital know-how and the in-house developed analog audio and electronic technology. The ESS Sabre ES9038PRO current-to-voltage (I/V) converter is finely tuned to achieve its maximum performance.
Optimized ARM chip
The optimized ARM chip offers the shortest possible signal path and eliminates the need for 5 chips. Includes MQA decoder/renderer and digital filter selection
Dynamic digital filtering
WANDLA offers seven ESS digital filters as standard and, as a world first, lets the audience World first the best of a total of eight WANDLA filters choose the from the renowned filter manufacturer HQ Player developed for Ferrum.
Optimized digital inputs
Specially programmed USB and tuned coaxial and optical S/PDIF, HDMI and I2S ports, optimized for audio.
Proprietary Amplification -Fully balanced modified IC preamplifier.
Truly symmetrical - the signal path remains truly symmetrical via the XLR inputs and becomes truly symmetrical via the RCA inputs.
user-friendliness
Newly developed high-resolution touchscreen with intuitive user interface.
Improved transparency
The entire design is geared towards a balanced and very transparent sound signature, so that Listener fatigue is a thing of the past.
Specially developed for HYPSOS
Although WANDLA performs very well right out of the box, it is designed to do even more when used with HYPSOS, when used together with HYPSOS. By using the proprietary Ferrum Power Link (FPL) connection, both components achieve their maximum performance.
and unleash an unimagined musicality.
