Bowers & Wilkins Formation Audio [4/65] Using your formation audio

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3. Using Your Formation Audio

The Basics

You can use your Formation Audio to play audio

from conventional sources, from streaming services

such as Spotify, Apple Music, and Tidal, from the

Roon music library service and from internet radio

via an appropriate iRadio app. If you have further

Formation devices connected to your network,

Formation Duo speakers for example, conventional

audio sources connected to your Formation Audio

will also be available through the speakers.

Spaces

Spaces are a core concept of the Formation product

family. A Formation “space” is a room or a specic

area in your home in which you listen to music.

Each space can include different combinations of

Formation products. The possible congurations are

displayed in Diagram 2.

Playing Audio

The Bowers & Wilkins Home app enables you to

select and play any available audio source or stream.

However, in much the same way that conventional

audio source playback requires initiation through

a play command, Formation streams must be rst

initiated through their own gateway app: the Spotify

app for example, or a music library app such as

Roon. Each gateway or library app will list your

Formation Audio space as an available playback

device using Airplay, Bluetooth or in the case of

Spotify, Spotify Connect.

Once audio streams are playing on the Formation

network they can be selected via the Bowers &

Wilkins Home app or via the Formation Audio

front panel Form touch button

. Touching the

Form button will cycle though the available streams

and sources.

Formation Audio Front Panel Controls

and Illumination

Your Formation Audio has touch buttons on its

front panel that provide play/pause control, volume

adjustment and source/stream selection.

• Touching the Play/Pause

will alternately stop

and restart audio playback.

Note: Play/pause will only operate if the stream

source has play and pause functions that can

be accessed through Bluetooth or network

connections.

• Touching volume up

or down will adjust

the local volume of any network stream or local

source. Pressing and holding the

and

buttons will continuously increase or decrease

volume.

• Touching the Form button

will cycle through

and play the active streams and sources available

to the Formation Audio.

Form Button illumination

The Formation Audio Form button illumination

changes to indicate a variety of operational states.

The illuminations are displayed in Diagram 3.

Diagram 2

Space congurations

TV Space congurations

Music Space congurations

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