The AirLens will support DSD256 and PCM352 for sure.
To stream music you need 3 components:
A controller
A server
A renderer
The controller is the user interface that allows you to select what you want to listen to. It can be pretty stupid. You select a track and that information is then presented to the server. The server knows the file location of that track and its job is to connect that file to the renderer. Once connected, the server and controller sit idle.
The renderer (in this case the AirLens) accepts the digital file output and prepares it for delivery to the DAC.
If it matches or outperforms the discontinued dCS Network Bridge, which was pretty much universally praised for its basic functions, the AirLens will be a high value proposition at around $2,000.
Yes thanks, that’s exactly how I understood it, at least if „renderer“ is equivalent to „streamer“, which I thinking the case?
If so, the Airlens would be streamer and bridge. But why the term bridge is used at all if any streamer must have a network connection (and therefore acts as network bridge) to be able to stream, would be my last question then.
In my understanding only a streamer with just a USB cable connectivity would not simultaneously be a bridge, too.
From what i understand AirLens should be a streamer like Bridge II, like lumin u1 mini, like Auralic Aries G1 or 2.1, Bluesound Node etc. you can then use a NAS upstream, or Qobuz or Tidal etc. is what many in Italy call streaming player.
Hi @Paul, I’m also quite interested in what PS Audio and its dealers might offer to help all in one Directstream with Bridge owners to move across to the DS2 and AirLens. A package deal would be great.
I know there will certainly be a sweet trade-in deal for DS owners. What that is I haven’t a clue. My son Scott runs our sales department and he and the boys upstairs figure all that out.
