Ferrum Audio WANDLA

Ferrum Audio WANDLA

High-end DAC

Ferrum WANDLA is a divinely great-sounding DAC for the money WANDLA is undoubtedly Ferrum Audio's statement product. Not because it costs an arm and a leg (like many of its performance competitors do), but because of the way it delivers the music! It is not just neutral, uncolored, and superbly high-resolution – it is also deceptively musical in a fluid and natural way that not many competitors come close to at this price point.

The digital section is built around an ESS9038PRO chip, but anyone can solder a chip to a print – the hard part is making it sound good. Here, Ferrum Audio has vast experience with DAC topology and circuitry, and in the WANDLA, they have chosen some of the best components on the market and created a circuit that is balanced from start to finish. Period. This results in an incredibly noise-free reproduction of the music, where every detail simply emerges naturally and the dynamics are staggeringly good. At the same time, they have shortened the digital signal path considerably by cutting out four chips and replacing them with their own ARM chip, which handles the job far more elegantly. Among other things, it operates at a super-high 64-bit precision, almost eliminating the digital rounding errors that always occur during digital processing.

If you still desire even more performance, the HYPSOS power supply is an obvious choice with its incredibly stable voltage delivery, completely free of ripples or noise. With it paired to the WANDLA, you get even more controlled dynamics, deeper bass, and a more airy reproduction of the music within a larger and more well-defined space.