[George Hincapie]

The hypsos isn't required. It comes with a 24V PSU stock but you can upgrade to the hypsos if desired (or use an alternative 24V PSU)

It is if you want the best sound surely? Or have I misunderstood our previous conversations?

 

[GoldenSound]

It is if you want the best sound surely? Or have I misunderstood our previous conversations?

The hypsos makes an improvement but it's not necessary unless it was comfortably within your budget.

There's always things to improve a chain

 

[l Like Music]

Any luck to try this little monster in CanJam Singapore next month?

 

[CanMad]

It is if you want the best sound surely? Or have I misunderstood our previous conversations?

In the Stereophile review, the only measured difference John found was a 6db higher noise floor with the Hypsos. Surely one of the main benefits of replacing a switch mode power supply with a linear one, should be a lower noise floor. @GoldenSound are you able to ask the FERRUM engineers about this? Was the Hypsos faulty or did John make a mistake? He usually mentions if a DAC can handle digital overs, but missed that issue in the Wandla review as well. Or maybe just assumed people would use the digital trim function.

 

[George Hincapie]

The hypsos makes an improvement but it's not necessary unless it was comfortably within your budget.

There's always things to improve a chain

I'm going to be (respectfully) blunt, because we seem to be talking in circles and I'm not getting the assurance I'd like.

Setting the issue of budget aside, because I'll grind what grist the mill requires in pursuit of SQ, I would like to understand how much of an improvement Hypsos creates. It's £1000, so what am I getting for that? Is it night and day? Horrible cliché, forgive me. Or is it subtle? Could one live without it and be happy? Or is it a must buy? If it's <5% improvement then I wouldn't bother. But if it's more impactful than that, then it's something worth considering.

 

[wagninger]

I'm going to be (respectfully) blunt, because we seem to be talking in circles and I'm not getting the assurance I'd like.

Setting the issue of budget aside, because I'll grind what grist the mill requires in pursuit of SQ, I would like to understand how much of an improvement Hypsos creates. It's £1000, so what am I getting for that? Is it night and day? Horrible cliché, forgive me. Or is it subtle? Could one live without it and be happy? Or is it a must buy? If it's <5% improvement then I wouldn't bother. But if it's more impactful than that, then it's something worth considering.

For the Wandla, it's a <5% improvement. It's more noticeable with the Oor, which also presents a more dynamic load.

 

[George Hincapie]

For the Wandla, it's a <5% improvement. It's more noticeable with the Oor, which also presents a more dynamic load.

Thank you.

 

[GoldenSound]

I'm going to be (respectfully) blunt, because we seem to be talking in circles and I'm not getting the assurance I'd like.

Setting the issue of budget aside, because I'll grind what grist the mill requires in pursuit of SQ, I would like to understand how much of an improvement Hypsos creates. It's £1000, so what am I getting for that? Is it night and day? Horrible cliché, forgive me. Or is it subtle? Could one live without it and be happy? Or is it a must buy? If it's <5% improvement then I wouldn't bother. But if it's more impactful than that, then it's something worth considering.

For the Wandla, it's a <5% improvement. It's more noticeable with the Oor, which also presents a more dynamic load.

This pretty much. I discussed it in the review I think and have spoken about it in chats a few times. The improvement is much more noticeable with the oor. Om the Wandla it's 5-10%. If you have an oor I'd definitely get the splitter so you can run the hypsos to the Wandla and oor. But for just the Wandla I'd probably leave it.

Only get the hypsos if that £1000 couldn't be better spent on headphones etc

 

[OhmsClaw]

@GoldenSound
Congrats on thecollaboration!

When will it go live and does it maintain the same filters in addition to your special features?

 

[GoldenSound]

@GoldenSound
Congrats on thecollaboration!

When will it go live and does it maintain the same filters in addition to your special features?

Yep! Filters are the same as the standard version, Jussi did some fantastic work with those

 

[GiBGUN]

I’m in Canada and bought my WANDLA from a local dealer. Will I have to go through headphones.ca to upgrade my existing unit?

 

[GoldenSound]

I’m in Canada and bought my WANDLA from a local dealer. Will I have to go through headphones.ca to upgrade my existing unit?

You'll need to go through headphones.ca to buy one new.
Conversions will be direct through Ferrum

 

[bodiebill2]

I see that the I2S pin layout expects a DSD flag on one of the pins 13-16. Will it be possible to play DSD over I2S from a DDC that does not send this flag? An example is Audio-GD's DI20HE or DI24HE.

 

[wagninger]

@GoldenSound will it be possible to maybe demo this software update? Maybe try it for a bit on a 1st gen Wandla and if I decide I don’t need those features, go back to the old SW?

 

[joseluishs]

@GoldenSound will it be possible to maybe demo this software update? Maybe try it for a bit on a 1st gen Wandla and if I decide I don’t need those features, go back to the old SW?

That would be nice