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Ferrum Wandla HP Headphone Amplifier DAC
Ferrum Wandla HP Headphone Amplifier DAC
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Description
The new Ferrum Audio WANDLA HP essentially is WANDLA with a great sounding headphone amplifier. It will satisfy those who are seeking more than ERCO has to offer but are not ready for WANDLA in combination with OOR, being the super flagship option. Incorporating all great options and specifications from WANDLA, Ferrum’s engineers integrated a powerful, and fully balanced composite IC headphone amplifier at the quality levels that come very close to those of OOR. As with all of Ferrum’s gear, you can reach for the stars by combining WANDLA HP with HYPSOS. It has the looks, it’s all about the music, and it’s a guaranteed head turner.
Features:
- Fully Balanced - WANDLA HP offers a fully balanced, composite IC headphone amplifier design, fine tuned for WANDLA.
- Powerful - WANDLA HP’s headphone amplifier can output a hefty 3.5 Watts at 50 Ω (balanced).
- Dynamic - WANDLA HP’ headphone amplifier has an impressive dynamic range of 122 dB.
- Proprietary optimized ARM chip offers the shortest signal path possible, making 5 chips redundant
- Four proprietary Signalyst filters
- Proprietary 4-pin Ferrum connector for HYPSOS
- Balanced XLR and unbalanced RCA line outputs
- Digital and Analogue volume control
- EES Sabre ES9038PRO with selected filter
- Remote control included
Specifications:
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
Output Power Single Ended: 1 W into 50 Ω
Output Power Balanced: 3.5 W into 50 Ω Dyn. Range: 122 dB
HP Output impedance: 0.5 Ω unbalanced
HP Output impedance: 1 Ω balanced
Other
Operation: Fully balanced, proprietary IC power amp
DAC chip: ESS Sabre ES9038PRO
DAC resolution: 768k/32bit, DSD 512
Digital inputs:
- AES/EBU (up to 196kHz/24bit, DoP 64)
- Optical S/PDIF (up to 96kHz/24bit)
- Coaxial S/PDIF (up to 192kHz/24bit, DoP 64)
- USB-C (up to 768kHz/32bit, DSD 512, DoP 256)
- ARC (up to 192kHz/24bit), TV input with CEC
- I2S (up to 768kHz/32bit, DSD 512, DoP 256), PS Audio® compatible
MQA: decoder and renderer (on all digital inputs)
Analog inputs: RCA
Analog input Vmax: 9,5V RMS (2 – 3.5V RMS recommended)
Analogue input imp: 47kΩ
Line outputs: balanced XLR; unbalanced RCA
Volume control: analogue with bypass option / digital for DAC operation only
Line Output level: @0 dBFS, 1kHz sine 10 V RMS balanced, 5 V RMS unbalanced
Line Output level (RED): @0 dBFS, 1kHz sine 4 V RMS balanced, 2 V RMS unbalanced
Frequency response on analog inputs: 10Hz – 200kHz +/- 0.1 dB
DAC THD: -121 dB (0,00009 %); THD+N: -115dB (unweighted)
Analog input THD: -123 dB @ 2V RMS output level
Dyn. range analog: 127 dB (A-weighted)
Dyn. range digital: 122 dB (A-weighted)
DAC Output Crosstalk: -120 dB for 1kHz, better than -100 dB for 20Hz – 20kHz
Line Output impedance: 22 Ω unbalanced
Line Output impedance: 44 Ω balanced
Power consumption:
- 13 W idle (with amp powered off)
- 18 W idle (with amp powered 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: 100-240 VAC to 24 VDC
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