I have a spare black and spare silver PowerBase just waiting to support the AirLens, if it turns out to be all that and a bag of chips.
It would be great if the aesthetics were complimentary if not similar.
Heck, I would go for a full-size chassis to match the PerfectWave styling even if the box was half empty.
Time will tell (and maybe @Paul will take pity on us and share the final production box sooner rather than later)…
Regards.
You have the PSA power base? I wish you could still get those and I’m betting the AL is going to be really great and perfect companion with the PSA dacs. I’m all in, I’ve had an itchy trigger finger for a year now to purchase something else but I’m happy I waited. Not much longer now.
I have been buying them used from Audiogon and fellow forum denizens when they pop up at reasonable prices.
They make great isolation bases and I love the way they match up with the PerfectWave line of components:
Cheers.
Perfect!
What are the towels for?
Those are the soft covers the DMP and DSD were in (they are like pillowcases) when they shipped from the mothership.
I drape them over the top of the high-gloss tops of the kit to protect them from dust and scratches. (Also allows me to lay the occasional CD or whatever on top without worrying about marring the surface.)
I’m looking forward to being able to remove my PC/Element H card/X-SPDIF 2 and just have the AirLens connect to my NAS and then to the DAC
Since most of us have racking that’s typically not much more than 21" wide, I am hoping the AL is narrow in width and long in length. It would be nice to have room to put something else next to it on the same shelf.
Nuwave Phono converter was my ideal half size chassis.
I want mine outside my main rack but proximity to DS and cost of Dragon HDMI and audiophile ethernet cords in length is costly. May need to set mine vertical and hidden. I know air gap is supposed to reduce noise. My bet is so do the better digital cables.
I am certain that the variations of cables, cords, shielding, vibration control, fuses and sources will be endless. They will be documented, discussed, asked about repeatedly, re-documented, reasked, and reiterated.
It is the way.
Totally agree with you. Looking at the demo pic I’m not happy because this size is not practical IMO. You cannot have on the same shelf enough room on sides of AirLens and you loose space in front and behind it (cables especially).
I strongly recommend the NuWave shape.
If it’s not full sized, but still takes up an entire shelf, isn’t it full-sized? 
No. It leaves room for two of Paul‘s Nipper the RCA dog mini statuettes. One on each side for optimal stereo balance. Precious.
Well, i’m seriously interested in hearing how the AL is going to sound now.
A while back I picked up a minty used Matrix Mini-I-Pro 3 (roon-ready streamer and built-in DAC), and I was using it as a bedside roon endpoint and headphone amp. Well, as cute as it is, it was taking up too much room on my nightstand (and I don’t really need a dedicated headphone amp there), so I moved it to my living room system, to compare with my RoPieeeXL Pi + Pi2AES HAT + HQPlayer streamer.
Anyway I think I should probably just submit my resignation to the audiophile club, because it sounds just as good. I can’t tell the difference.
Tried native PCM, but for fun I’ve got roon upsampling to DSD128 (I think i can get to 512 if I use a Pi as the streamer via USB, but that takes away the one-box nature of the thing.)
If I care, I might have my kid help me do an A/B test, switching the inputs while I listen. But I don’t know how much I care!
So, it’ll be interesting to see if the AL sounds appreciably better, or if I can actually discern any difference.
Or better yet, you switch the inputs and have him/her listen! Don’t ask them which is better, just can they tell a difference. If yes, and you still cannot then start to panic haha jk
Exactly. I’m sure his 17-year-old ears will hear stuff my 57-year-old ears cannot.
Can kids nowadays listening to hip hop etc tell any difference? 
I feel so f$&@ing old. And only still a few years till my 60s.
my youngest is actually an audio guy. Not an audiophile, but a sound-recording-mixing-multitracking guy. Eclectic tastes. Yeah, some hip-hop and rap and death core, but also some interesting ambient and acoustic music.
So, I’m guessing he’ll hear stuff. 
My older kid (20) is happy with a little bluetooth speaker hanging from his belt.
Can’t win em all.
Well I’ll tell you one thing: my son, who just got his Masters in violin performance at Juilliard, is a fellow at Tanglewood this year, auditioning at orchestras etc and an all-around classical guy, gave me Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy winning hip hop album for Christmas last year. He said that it was transformative and ground-breaking and on and on.
Short story: I didn’t get it. As I said, too f$&@ing old.