Joe Hisaishi is top notch!

The GSE does do a bit of depth related adjustment when using HP mode, though it's subtle (intentionally)

You can yep! At headphones.com the first batch is sold through but second batch is ordered and on the way

1) Yep! As long as you can adjust gain on your sub this will work fine. 2) It's a cleaner signal path/method of doing it. Previously you either would need to use digital volume control, or go through the analog MUSES chips. The new circuit is a fixed value adjustment with fewer components and...

No new info atm, Ferrum has said it should be ready late this month, or possibly very early next month, so shouldn't be much longer!

Because significant R&D time and cost was put into the development of both the firmware and hardware changes. If there was no price change it wouldn't have been possible to do in the first place. The decision was made to merge the new hardware changes over to new units of the regular Wandla as...

I requested the measurements because you said Andrew and I were lying and that our findings were not based in reality. I stand by my findings, but until there is objective data available, it's unfair to state absolutely that Andrew or myself are "making stuff up". Additionally, headphones.com...

Nothing is being made up, we are just sharing our own findings. When we review a product we will also measure and show objective data as 'basis in reality' . There currently aren't any measurements of the Immanis available and neither of us have a review unit of the Immanis to measure...

The Wandla GSE is a dac....it has nothing to do with and is in no way competing with the Immanis (and on the point of 'unofficial' influencer endorsement vs MOT stuff, my direct involvement with that product is quite clear and transparent)

For those in the UK Hifonix has a unit in store to demo and available to order https://www.hifonix.co.uk/detail/ferrum-audio-wandla-golden-sound-edition

Just fwiw, you can literally do the same EQ for free

Ehh not necessarily, mitch's filters only correct upto about 7khz (also EQ is free :P)

Im just meaning the one I tried it on. Though fwiw my objections have been consistent across all setups I've heard it on

Hopefully someone will be able to measure one soon. I wasn't able to do any manual sweeps with what was available at the show, but my test tracks definitely had some oddities Also fwiw I've tried immanis multiple times, including using their own amps (and also an ifi phantom). At the Munich...

I didn't hate those either. I just felt the sound wasn't upto par with the price. I enjoyed them though

No I don't? I love 109 and Empy 2

Can finally talk about this now that it's announced :D I was able to try these for a short time at Munich High-End this year. I've always been a big fan of the original Susvara, with it being essentially my benchmark headphone (excluding the everest priced stuff like HE1/Aperio). The Susvara...

If wanting to bi amp best option would be to use an xlr splitter cable. Just make sure the amps are not unusually low input impedance and you're good to go

Pretty much all dacs will have 2x the voltage on balanced output unless they had quite an unorthodox dual output stage situation with different voltages. Wandla outputs 10V on XLR and 5V on RCA without any vol control. On the GSE it's about 9V XLR and 4.5V RCA. Though you can use the voltage...

It can't be disabled Yep, just make sure that the amps don't have an unusually low input impedance, also keep both amps ON when playing. Some amps load the inputs when turned off and this could cause additional distortion including to the 2nd amp

Unfortunately not. IMO they absolutely should, and most professional oriented products as well as many high end DACS (RME, Benchmark, Chord, Ferrum etc) all have appropriate digital headroom management. BUT, many manufacturers like Topping, SMSL, Gustard that market heavily based on their SINAD...

Because as said, if you pad the Msb, you end up attenuating everything by 48dB

This is an example of intersample overs. The green squares represent the PCM samples. The green line represents the actual waveform once reconstructed: You can see that despite all the samples themselves being at or below 0dBfs, the waveform goes above it. To make it clearer here's the same...

The bit depth doesn't matter. max value at 16 bit is still max value at 24, 32 or 64 bit. Otherwise when playing 24 bit content you'd suddenly find everything was about 48dB quieter than 16 bit The issue is that if the source material has content that when reconstructed exceeds 0dBfs, your DAC...

I've not had a chance to test the 501/502 at home so can't say. Though analog attenuation wouldn't address the issue. It's the DAC itself that is clipping and once it's clipped that's it