New wireless options
Love your system? Bring it up to date. Formation Audio allows you to stream 24-bit/96kHz hi-res audio to it, easily.
Analogue streaming
Let analogue sources join in your wireless experience. Audio can stream any format you like to Formation speakers.
Perfect conversion
Formation Audio flawlessly converts analog to digital, and digital to analog – so your music always sounds its best.
Formation Audio will enable you to
– Listen to audio from streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music and Roon via
conventional audio devices such as amplifiers or active speaker systems.
– Listen to network stored audio files.
– Listen to audio over Bluetooth from appropriately enabled Bluetooth
source devices.
– Listen to audio from locally connected devices such as turntables (via a phono
preamp) and CD players.
– Listen to audio, such as Internet Radio, from Airplay or Bluetooth compatible
services and apps.
– Listen to audio playing anywhere in your home on any Formation device
connected to your home network.
Specifications
Description: Wireless Audio Hub
Technical features: Apple® AirPlay 2® technology, Spotify® Connect, Roon Ready, Bluetooth In, High performance analogue-to-digital converter (ADC),
High performance digital-to-analogue converter (DAC)
Input voltage: 100V – 240V – 50/60Hz
Power consumption: Below 6.8 Watts (Sleep)*
Connections Digital: audio in (Toslink), Analogue audio in (2 x RCA), Digital audio out (1 x RCA), Analogue audio out (2 x RCA), Network (RJ45 Ethernet or WiFi), USB – service only
Bluetooth: Bluetooth® v4.1, Class 2, aptX HD, AAC, SBC
Dimensions: Height: 44mm (1.7 in), Width: 215mm (8.5 in), Depth: 263mm (10.4 in)
Neto weight: 1.0kg
AirPlay 2 compatibility: iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch with iOS 11.4 or later, Apple, TV 4K or Apple TV (4th Generation) with tv OS 11.4 or later, Mac or PC with iTunes 12.8 or later.
*Formation products create a mesh network. Each product in this network dynamically chooses the optimal path to route audio-data between products, in order to ensure a robust streaming experience. We have therefore certified
Formation products for High Network Availability (HiNA) and conform to the appropriate power requirements set out in the ERP directive.
Package Contents: Formation Audio, Mains power cable set, Manual.