IFI AUDIO INTRODUCES THE ALL-NEW ZEN AIR BLUE BLUETOOTH STREAMER AND DAC

iFi Audio presents the ZEN Air Blue based on the award-winning ZEN Series. The ZEN Air range makes high-performance audio more accessible than ever before. The iFi Audio ZEN Air Blue is a Bluetooth receiver and DAC with iFi Audio's next-generation HD Bluetooth engine built-in. The ZEN Air Blue comes with support for Bluetooth 5.1 connectivity and offers playback for a variety of high-quality codecs like LDAC, LHDC/HWA, aptX LL and aptX HD. This latest addition to iFi Audio’s lineup is well thought out and allows you to enjoy your music at the highest quality.

EXPERIENCE SEAMLESS BLUETOOTH CONNECTIVITY AND ENJOY HD QUALITY STREAMING

The team at iFi Audio have embedded the ZEN Air Blue with the latest Bluetooth technology to enable a stable and seamless connectivity experience. The iFi Audio ZEN Air Blue has iFi's next-generation HD Bluetooth engine built-in and this implementation avoids the typical 40% quality drop found with standard Bluetooth. The ZEN Air Blue is Bluetooth v5.2 compliant and this enables excellent wireless range, superior stability and smooth performance without any audio degradation. The ZEN Air Blue supports all the latest hi-res codecs like aptX, aptX HD, aptX Adaptive, aptX LL, LDAC, HWA, AAC and SBC and upgrades the sound quality of any speaker or system that uses older Bluetooth technology and enables audio streaming from smartphones, tablets and more. Any jitter is eliminated using GMT Femto-precision clock system to deliver Bluetooth® that is a cut above.

EMBEDDED WITH HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPONENTS TO DELIVER SUPERIOR AUDIO QUALITY

The iFi Audio ZEN Air Blue is engineered to offer performance that is pristine and to enable this, the team at iFi Audio have embedded it with high-quality components. The ZEN Air Blue’s high-performance circuitry delivers smooth, detailed and dynamic sound. The ZEN Air Blue features an ESS Sabre Hypertstream DAC chip with time-domain jitter eliminator, discrete oscillator and 112dB dynamic range working in conjunction with the Qualcomm QCC5100 chip for high-quality audio. An advantage of the ESS Sabre DAC chip is its Hyperstream architecture with integrated Time Domain Jitter Eliminator, which delivers vanishingly low distortion and a high dynamic range. Adding to this, the ZEN Air Blue embeds TDK COG capacitors, Gold Plated RCA sockets, low jitter clock and DC 5V Texas Instruments precision low-noise power supply - all adding to the superior performance of the device.

EASY TO PAIR AND OFFERS ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONALITY FOR EFFORTLESS OPERATION

iFi Audio ZEN Air Blue is designed to offer easy connectivity with an effortless pairing process. To enable this, the ZEN Air Blue blinks after powering on as it searches for a previously paired device. When a stored device is not found, it automatically enters pairing mode with the LED blinking blue and red. You can also enter pairing mode manually by pressing and holding the pairing button on the front panel until the LED blinks. ZEN Air Blue can store up to 8 previously paired Bluetooth devices. ZEN Air Blue also offers a Voice announcement feature that can be turned on or off easily.

EXPERTLY BUILT WITH INDICATIVE LED LIGHT AND SINGLE-ENDED RCA FOR OUTPUT

iFi Audio ZEN Air Blue comes equipped with a powerful LED that lights up the iFi logo on the front panel. This LED light is RGB enabled and doubles as an indicator light to display the file format of the played file. The specific colour of the LED are as follows - SBC Off, AAC Yellow, aptX Blue, aptX HD Magenta, aptX Adaptive Green, aptX LL Red, LDAC Cyan and LHDC/HWA White. Along with the format LED light, you also get a Sample Rate LED that lights up Blue when 44/48 kHz are being played and lights up White when 88/96 kHz sample rate is played. Lastly, for connecting your devices to the ZEN Air Blue - it comes with Single-Ended RCA output on the rear panel.