Details
Description
Bring your existing system right up to date with Formation Audio wireless audio streamer. Access 24-bit/96kHz hi-res audio on your hi-fi, include it in a multi-room set-up, even stream analog sources like turntables to Formation wireless speakers.
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.
Multiroom-enabled
The ultimate setup of a traditional Bowers & Wilkins sound system, for decades, has been the definition of high-fidelity sound. Now, the uncompromising Bowers & Wilkins audio heritage is married with 21st-century streaming convenience due to the new Formation Audio. It finally enables high-quality wireless streaming to your existing passive system or from existing passive components – CD player, turntable, or other pieces – to wireless Formation speakers, anywhere in the home. Our analog-to-digital converter ensures there are no lag or breaks in sound, even between rooms, while 96/24-bit streaming maintains legendary Bowers & Wilkins sound resolution. Just think – existing passive sound system quality, now synced to stream anywhere, wirelessly. It is why Formation by Bowers & Wilkins is the Highest Form of Sound™.
Formation Audio
- Transform your passive system into a multi-room system
- Connect analogue devices and stream to Formation speakers
- Stream in 96/24 bit high-resolution to your passive system
- Features Formation® Wireless Technology
- WiFi, Apple® AirPlay 2®, and Bluetooth compatible
- Sets up in moments
- Synchronisation in perfected harmony with other Formation products
Specifications
Specifications
Model
Formation Audio
Description
Wireless Audio Hub
Technical features
Apple® AirPlay 2® technology
Spotify® Connect
Roon Ready
Bluetooth In
High performance ananlogue-to-digital converter (ADC)
High performance digital-to-analogue converter (DAC)
Input voltage
100V – 240V – 50/60Hz
Power consumption
Below 6 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)
Weight: 1.0kg (2.2lb)
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 devices have multiple radios and therefore are compliant for the ERP requirements for a HiNA device
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Delivery & Returns
Delivery & Returns
We offer FREE delivery to the mainland UK (excluding Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Isle of White, Isles of Scilly, and some of the remote Scottish Isles).
For other areas please contact us for a quote. Select items can be delivered internationally by prior agreement. Again please contact us for a quote. We will always do our best to help.
Our aim is to dispatch goods within 2 working days of an order being placed. Please allow 5 working days from the time of your order to receipt of item. If an order is expected to take longer than this our order fulfillment department will contact you to inform you of this.
Where multiple items are ordered, we will dispatch them all in one package. If you have ordered any special or customized items, or items otherwise not immediately available, we will dispatch the order when all items are available. If you have any concerns regarding this, please contact us and we will do are very best to help you.