Ferrum has never been shy about chasing audiophile purity, and the BROEN network transport is the company’s latest attempt to strip digital audio down to its cleanest possible signal path. The pitch is characteristically bold — Ferrum describes it as delivering “uncompromising” digital audio — and the design leans heavily on pairing with the brand’s own Wandla range of DACs.
The interesting bit is how BROEN handles connectivity. Rather than defaulting to a wired socket, it ships with an SFP socket and wireless (WiFi) as standard, with optional electrical (RJ45 ethernet) and optical (SFP) connections available on top. That flexibility means you can run it fiber-fed, hardwired, or off the network entirely — a rare degree of choice for a device this focused.
For listeners who prefer local files over streaming, there’s an internal M.2 NVMe SSD slot, so your library can live inside the box itself. Format support is broad: MP3, WMA, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, APE, WAV and DSD are all on the menu, covering everything from a casual playlist to a serious high-resolution collection.
At the heart of BROEN sits Ferrum’s SERCE digital-to-digital converter module, which manages the conversion and routing of the digital signal. The output roster is where the transport really shows its ambitions:
- AES/EBU
- Coaxial S/PDIF
- Optical S/PDIF
- I2S over HDMI
- USB DAC Type-A and Type-C
Ferrum also fits ultra-low jitter audio clocks on the synchronous outputs — Coaxial, Optical, AES and I2S — a detail that matters enormously in this corner of the hobby, where timing errors are the enemy of clean reproduction. That clocking is exactly the sort of engineering that justifies the “uncompromising” language.
Physically, BROEN keeps things compact. It measures 21.7 x 20.6 x 5 cm and weighs just 1.9 kg, so it slots neatly into a rack or sits comfortably alongside a Wandla DAC without dominating the shelf. The low profile suggests Ferrum intends it as a modular building block rather than a statement-piece monolith.
The natural home for BROEN is clearly the Wandla ecosystem, where the transport can hand off a jitter-controlled digital stream to a matching converter. Feed it from an NVMe SSD, over WiFi, or through fiber, and let the DAC handle the analogue side — that’s the architecture Ferrum is selling here.
BROEN was slated for release in the first or second quarter of 2026, and Ferrum has continued to list it as “coming soon.” Pricing has yet to be confirmed. For anyone already invested in Ferrum’s converters, though, this is shaping up to be the transport the range has been waiting for.
