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AirLens

AirLens

The AirLens™ interface brings perfection to streaming
Streaming audio via Roon or other services like Qobuz Connect, Tidal, and Spotify offers millions of titles at the touch of a finger. Unfortunately, connecting your sensitive DAC to the noise generated by computers, routers, NAS, local networks, and modems via either WiFi or Ethernet cable is not a great-sounding solution to bringing high-performance audio into your listening environment. The PS Audio AirLens™ completely eliminates the problems of noise, jitter, and EMI influences through complete galvanic isolation and perfect reclocking of the digital audio signal. You’ve not yet heard how great streaming can sound until you experience audio through the AirLens.
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Updating the AirLens

Our step-by-step guide to updating firmware over-the-air for the AirLens Streamer. Please use DIP Switch 7 in the UP position to update the main firmware. Then power down the AirLens and move DIP Switch 7 into the DOWN position. You can then power up the unit and update the streamer firmware with the same process.
  • Design

    Whether you stream network music through Roon, Audirvana, JRiver, Tidal Direct, Spotify, your NAS, or any DLNA-compatible server, you will introduce unwanted noise into your sensitive DAC. A USB connection to the computer is by far the noisiest method, followed by a close second via Ethernet or WiFi. What is needed to completely remove this injurious noise is the elimination of any electrical connection between the computer, its network, and your DAC. The PS Audio AirLens has both an input stage and a galvanically isolated reclocking output stage. The two are connected only "through the air." By using separate power supplies, there are no physical ground or signal connections, ensuring 100% isolation and noise-free delivery of perfect digital audio signals.

  • Application

    Eliminating the noisy USB to-computer connection and instead placing the PS Audio AirLens between your home network via Ethernet or WiFi will change forever the performance of streaming music. Once connected to any DAC, the AirLens interface will bring exceptional transparency, resolution, timbral realism, and wide dynamics to any D to A converter. Noise from any number of sources including your computer, long runs of Ethernet cable, EMI interference through WiFi, the system modem and router, all contribute to increased jitter and a general reduction of fidelity in the system. Connecting your DAC via its coax or I2S inputs completely removes the haze and congestion caused by these noise sources.

Technology

Galvanic isolation means the complete elimination of any physical electrical connection between input and output. Typically, a common power supply provides ground and power to both inputs and outputs. Once a non-galvanically isolated device is connected to a noise source at its input, its shared ground passes the noise through a common ground to the output stage where the DAC is connected. The challenge with the AirLens was to design two fully isolated stages: input and output, and connect the digital audio signal between the two without any loss. To do this we incorporated a low-noise galvanically isolated DC-to-DC converter to feed power to the AirLens' output stage. We then deliver the received digital audio data to that clean output stage using only air as the interface. The results are nothing short of amazing. Finally, streaming music with all the noise and jitter-induced haze and congestion gone.

  • NETWORK INTERFACE FOR STREAMING MUSIC
  • PCM UP TO 352.8kHz
  • DSD TO 256(4X)
  • DOP OR NATIVE
  • GALVANICALLY ISOLATED INPUT TO OUTPUT
  • LOW JITTER RECLOCKER
  • DIGITAL LENS OUTPUT
  • ELIMINATION OF DIGITAL NOISE AND HASH
  • RCA COAX OUTPUT
  • I²S OUTPUT
  • ROON READY
  • DLNA READY
  • IMPROVES SOUND QUALITY
  • ELIMINATES NETWORK AND WIFI NOISE
  • TIDAL CONNECT
  • QOBUZ CONNECT
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Specifications - AirLens

General

Unit Weight 4.8 lbs [2.2 kg]
Unit Dimensions 10” x 7” x 1.5” [ 25.4cm x 17.8cm x 3.8cm]
Shipping Weight 6.8 lbs [3.1 kg]
Shipping Dimensions 5.8” x 13.6” x 11.6” [14.6 cm x 34.6 cm x 29.4 cm]
Color Options Black, Silver
Voltage Options Universal
Mains Power Input 100-240VAC 50-60Hz
Power Consumption 5W Typical/10W max
Accessories Included Power cord
Input 10/100/1000 Ethernet or 2.4 & 5GHz WIFI
Audio Outputs 12s, S/PDIF Coax

Features

Audio Interface • PCM: Up to 352.8kHz/32
• Native DSD up to DSD256 (I2S output)
• DoP (DSD over PCM) up to DSD128 (Coax output)
Network Support • WiFi: IEEE 802.11 b/g/n/ac (2.4 & 5GHz dual band)
• 10/100/1000 Ethernet
WiFi Setup • WPS
Connectivity • DLNA 1.5 & UPnP AV 1.0 Digital Media Renderer
• Spotify Connect
• Roon Ready
• TIDAL Connect
• Qobuz Connect
• Dropbox (through Roon)
• MQA
  • HiFi News

    The AirLens is a 'network bridge' between your choice of Roon, Audirvana, JRiver, Tidal Direct, Spotify, your NAS or any DLNA-compatible server, and PS Audio's top-end DACs.

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  • Jay's Iyagi (YouTube)

    PS Audio AirLens HiFi Music Streamer is Too Good To Be True for Under 000

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  • Future Audiophile

    In use, the PS Audio AirLens was flawless in respect to glitches and ease of connectivity. The PS Audio AirLens looks great…The fit and finish are luxurious and conform with PS Audio design cues

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  • Jim Clements, Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity

    The sound I got from the PS Audio AirLens was almost a surprise, it was so good. The sound was “organic”, tending to the performance level of an analog source

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  • The Sound Advocate

    The PS Audio AirLens is a great-sounding unit that just worked. …it is the perfect streamer to own

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  • Constantine Soo's Dagogo

    I wish for my audio system to thrill me, not lull me to sleep. I become excited about a product that moves my listening sessions into uncharted territory of performance, and the AirLens with the Mk2 were leading me onto new listening ground.

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  • Mr. Underhill, Maverick Hi-Fi Forum

    The soundstage was a that bit deeper, vocals were a tad clearer, effects easier to differentiate, and issues within recordings were better handled

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