It has a rich, balanced sound that’s super-enjoyable with decent levels of detail. I was relieved (and not really surprised) to find that the Panda impressed in the sound department straight out of the box. I didn’t manage to give the Panda a proper endurance test with regards to the claimed 30-hour battery life, however, I did manage to go for a few two and three-day stretches with moderate use throughout the day, and didn’t experience a flat battery once. This is great to know for potential compatibility and use-cases down the track. When I plugged them into my Macbook simply to charge them, I noticed that Roon discovered the Panda as a digital output, and I was able to play bit-perfect music directly to them, however, I could only manage volume via the software volume control. One last form of connectivity I discovered (quite by accident) is that the Panda will also function as a ‘USB DAC’. And with an impedance of 26 ohms and a sensitivity of 100dB, you won’t need much juice to get them singing. Working the Panda in ‘passive’ mode is no different to any pair of non-active headphones – plug them in, fire-up your source, and off you go. The Panda is designed first and foremost as a wireless pair of headphones, but they’re also designed to work extremely well in passive mode with an external amplification source. But, this is a nice problem to have in the scheme of things. Thankfully, there is no such noise evident on the Panda, and I did find myself having to turn it off and on again from time to time because I wasn’t sure if it was on or not (there is no LED or power indicator on the Panda). Many Bluetooth headphones will let you know they’re powered-on courtesy of a constant background hiss or noise-floor. Pairing to Android via Bluetooth proved pretty simple.
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