There is no Qobuz Connect and won’t be for quite some time. You need another app like Mconnect to use Qobuz just like with the Bridge II. It can’t be the same version of Mconnect you use with the Bridge II though it has to be the paid version. Like Al and others have been saying for months it works like a Rendu.
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Paul, please be clearer. A smartphone is computer-like… Will the AirLens work with Tidal Connect using just a smartphone? How about the prototypes you might have in the shop already? It would be very nice to see the AirLens on the following website, no? Supported Devices | TIDAL
Will Qobuz work with Airlens ? If it will not that will make we wonder why I would need this new unit. I use Qobuz exclusively for my streaming pleasure.
There is no Qobuz connect for direct connection to the endpoint (like Tidal and Spotify have), and the Airlens does not support Airplay nor Chromecast. So your choices to stream Qobuz to the Airlens, are UPnP (using BubbleUPnP, MConnect, etc.); and Roon.
Edit: I do not know if the Airlens supports Bluetooth but if it does that would be another option to stream Qobuz to it.
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Thanks for your information. It sounds like the AirLens will be rather limited. I will probably need to look to other manufacturers who clearly offer a lot more features. I know the PS has had their very legitimate struggles developing this product but I think they may be a day late and a dollar short.
I have Tidal Hifi plus and Qobuz now so I should be covered. Will be interesting to see how Mqa files sound through Airlens via I2S vs hi rez files through blue sound node with Qobuz via coax.
Yes, still no news on whether the AirLens supports Bluetooth. I think bluetooth would be a good addition if airplay is out of the picture.
The AirLens is a step up from the Bridge 2. Bluetooth has no place in it.
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Al
Didn’t Sonore make and discontinue a product like this because of a lack of market?
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Any reports on the trial. The Referenz is a night and day difference for me for the better. But my system has no ethernet fiber optic isolation devices. Curious what you are hearing. They also work great for HT steaming directly connected to router better than WiFI.
Hi Vmax, hope you are fine.
I moved my comments on the thread Innuos ZENith MK 3, anyhow I’m burning in the streamer and the new PhoenixNET I bought meanwhile. It seems that the switch in particular is going back and forth, providing different results to SQ hour by hour. Too many upgrades together need a few days to become familiar with the new sound and evaluate the units added to the chain.
So the Inakustik CAT 7 (finally arrived home) is my next step as soon as I will be able to focus on its characteristics in my new environment. I guess 2 o 3 days. Sorry for the delay.
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There’s lots to be said for going slow burn in is best when out of the way when making judgment on cables. There is likely some run in needed on the Inakustik also. There digital cords are like a shot of steroids in the Referenz line. Suddenly you hear everything.
The new knee joint is coming along. My follow up the doctor told me most people are re still using wakers and cain. He said i was walking like someone 5 or 6 weeks post surgery at 6 days.
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Sonore makes many products similar to this, but not exactly. The Rendu line consists of many models that, as endpoints, Roon and other services can stream to. They output USB only. One very nice thing about the Rendu products is they come in various levels and prices. They can be addressed and configured via a web browser. They are excellent products and are not likely going away any time soon.
The AirLens is very simply a way for streamers to talk via Ethernet (and possibly Wireless Ethernet) to accept music data and send it out via I2S to the PS Audio DSD MKII.
It is an update to the Bridge 2, plain and simple. It is a tad expensive for what it is but I’d buy one in a heartbeat if I had a DSD MKII.
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Are you saying that it is best used with the upcoming DSD MK2 ?
Yes sir. It can also be used with the MK1 instead of the Bridge 2 card.
At one time PS Audio was developing their own Roon-like service to be called “Octave” . It would have been a Server / Streamer and Endpoint. They were developing the hardware and software for it. But they stopped development of “Octave” and designed the AirLens as a device to do the same job the Bridge 2 card does in the MK1. If a person were to purchase a MK2 DAC they would likely want one of these.
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I think it works best with the PS Audio line up of DAC’s. The current DSD Dac, the discontinued DSD Jr., and the upcoming DSD MkII. All three have I2S inputs which will be the Airlens strength and the DAC sounds best with the I2S input.
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I have the MK1 so I suppose it will work. Still I am a bit perplexed given the fact that for a few hundred dollars I can purchase, for example, an Innuos Zen MK3 and get a lot more. Not sure I fully comprehend what/ where AirLens will fit in for an audiophile. IMHO the Innuos app is very good. The AirLens is a lot of $$ to get the benefit of I2S.
Some will believe as you do, others will welcome it. It is not for everybody, but then what is?
The very first post in this thread should have a picture of it and a description of what it will be and why one should consider it.
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I believe the Innuos Zen Mk II is almost $1k more than the Airlens rumored price. But the Innuos can be used as a core, server, and CD ripper
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Philosophical differences aside I still don’t get it. Is PS Audio unable or unwilling to invest in creating their own app ?