Has anyone successfully set up an AirLens for Wifi using a Verizon Fios router? I have tried a number of times. It works up through the quickly flashing green light on the back of the AL, but then the light turns red. Any help would be appreciated, as I must have Wifi for the system I want to use the AL in.
I use one of these with a BlueSound Pulse that lost the wifi.
A great little device.
Ditto. 
Thanks. Ordered one from Amazon and hope it does the trick!
Any news yet on upgrading the AL?
An official software type upgrade or the lps type upgrade? I thought Paul was going to look into the latter.
Not yet, now she is played in she work fine, first replacing power cables (AQ) one by one and added 2 Niagara 1200 (1 regenerated by P3 which is before and other conditioned through HC port) behind the power Plant P3 to prevent power cables act as antenna’s to pick RF back up, …
This is exactly the major weak point of power plants or conditioners, that they break RF optimized power distribution and open things up for RF/HF noise introduced back into the cabling circuit. And honestly once in and broken, it has happened to a degree and is not as fully to get rid of, as if it was if avoided everywhere from start.
Really…? This is the first I am reading about such downfalls.
I have certainly not noticed such a problem with my P10 regenerator.
What should I be listening for?
Is this an issue in general with all PSA regenerators or a matter of (the lack of) system synergy?
Thanks in advance.
Can you explain how this works? I don’t understand it.
If you plug a component into the wall, you get the benefit of whatever shielding is built into your power cord and whatever precautions against RF the designer of the component took. Now you plug it into a power conditioner or regenerator, and you still have those two levels of protection in effect; nothing has changed. Some power conditioners may have additional RF protection, which might help. The only way that I can see a power conditioner making things worse would be if it adds additional RF of its own. I don’t think this is typical (but I could be wrong)
I utilize the “ReGen” option for my low-power consumption components, including the Direct Stream DAC, Airlens, Moon LP310, and Rose 250 ADC and PSU for the Project X10 - Cadenza Black. I’ve noticed a significant improvement across the entire audio spectrum that even those new to audio would recognize. (DAC’s and Streamers)
When I added the AQ Storm Blizzard cable and Niagara 1200, I observed a subtle enhancement in HF detail. Interestingly, this difference became apparent only after a few weeks of operation, which is somewhat puzzling to me. ??? I cannot explain why ???
My power amps, the PSA Stellar (LF) with 2 x M700 and (HF) with 1 x S300, were initially connected through a High Current (HC) pass-through and performed quite well. Very recently, I added a second Niagara 1200 to the HC circuitry, accompanied by AQ Z3 power cable for interconnect.
Even with the standard power cords from the amps, connecting through the P3-HC fed Niagara 1200 had an immediate impact on the M700 (LF) monoblock. I noticed instantly a clearer distinction in the “muddy” frequencies, more so than before, without needing any measurements. Interestingly, the HF amp seemed to benefit less from this setup and even became a bit “harsher” on HF
I find it concerning that this time I can’t technically explain this improvement, yet in the meantime, I’m continuing to replace all cables with mainly AQ-Z3 and Storm Blizzard Power cables, as my budget permits month by month.
The airlens is playing fine <3, through I2S or Coax , difference is hardly noticeable
To you Scotte and @magister:
To clarify a possible misunderstanding…
IMO there is absolutely no problem or downfall in most any system with Powerplants and the weak point I described. Simply because there are hardly any systems which have implemented a systematic HF/RF protection of the equipment and cabling structure including protected power distribution.
So I don’t want to imply any “problem” with Powerplants in normal setups one could listen for.
Now to what I mean and what magister asked to understand (I have to say that I certainly don’t know technical details but try to roughly sketch how I understand it and experienced it):
I use a cabling system (I leave out the manufacturer here as I don’t want to do any marketing), which has active and passive HF/RF protection for the whole way including the central power distribution system, which also blocks all mutual noise which equipment and its power supplies push back into the power circuit to otherwise harm each other. By the way I also actively HF/RF noise protect the room and gear itself. The sound quality benefit of this among others mainly is an extreme amount of “air”, 3D, resolution, realism, it is very special.
In such a ”closed shop” from wall socket to equipment, each interruption of the protection, wherever this kind of noise can enter the circuit, causes a kind of smaller or bigger collapse of the sound quality effect it has. But one will certainly just notice it, if one previously experienced the positive effect.
So only in such a protected circuit, a PowerPlant, which has several positive effects but no effective HF/RF protection, opens up the power circuit for such noise entry. It’s the reason why in such an environment, if one doesn’t have explicit power supply problems, a PowerPlant (also in my experience) can limit the possible sound quality more than it lets it benefit.
That’s why I say, don’t bother unless you have taken that much care of HF/RF noise and EMI. Everywhere else (except maybe for the one or other big power amp), a PowerPlant will be mostly solely beneficial, I’m sure.
Regarding magister’s question:
Yes, in your example you then still have those two levels of protection in place, but they then just protect further noise entering those cables or components, but the noise that already entered the circuit elsewhere is in. It still helps to close as many gaps as possible, but the key is, to close the shop, at best with a continuous concept rather than a patchwork of several manufacturers‘ concepts (at best randomly building upon each other).
It needs decisions. Manufacturers concentrate on different things and leave out others. What’s the most important and efficient, can only be tried out or decided by everyone themselves. My experience is, this kind of protection level is more important for what we audiophiles call „,magic“ or „realism“ than any gear decision.
The additional power conditioners add impedance to the powerline and it is this rise in impedance that makes things much worse. Power Plants do the opposite by dramatically lowering impedance.
I have no idea what Jazznut is talking about.
AQ power cords, in my experience, take an a long time to break in (500 hours plus). So it is not unusual that you heard better sound a couple of weeks later.
can I interchange shielding with Protection in your writing? To me, protection implies an active circuit not passive like a shield.
No, not shielding as we know it. The cabling even avoids common shielding for other sound quality reasons. It’s a mixture of protection applied to the cabling or gear by methods I can’t explain and active elements plugged into interfaces to the cabling or sockets of equipment, as well as active devices based on radar technology, cancelling in room or around equipment. I don’t want to misuse the thread, you can PM me if further interested. Such things beyond the usual gear flipping and such people are usually rather found in the whatsbest forum 
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There’s a thread on using 3M AB7050 absorbent sheets on P15/20 to absorb RFI//EMI, and it made a noticeable improvement of my P15. @vmax had great inputs on how to use it.
My main problem with this manufacturer strategy is, that it’s often obvious, that there was partly really no care taken for testing. I think if they planned to fix such issues very soon, they would have waited a bit with release. Releasing quite buggy products (some seem to do it rather generally) imo is usually a sign of not being able to fix things or to intensively care for a while.
I think this is only possible for quite healthy companies. Those may not have to be aware so much, how much this would harm their reputation and business otherwise. I personally would risk such purchases for less expensive products, but I would never buy expensive gear from such companies. At least not, if really prompt support in such cases isn’t clearly visible … and unfortunately the workload by this strategy usually tends to prevent exactly this.