The XSCACE Controller app is the iOS and Android companion for the Air Amp and Air Mini streaming amplifiers — the interface that turns a compact rack-free amplifier into a fully controllable system without a rack, a control processor, or a separate calibration microphone. Every feature in the app is built around one idea: professional-grade tuning shouldn't require professional installation. Here's what each part of the app actually does.
One-Tap Setup
The app's guided setup wizard connects an Air Amp or Air Mini to Wi-Fi in seconds — the amplifier is discovered automatically on the local network, and setup is handled through a step-by-step flow rather than a manual network configuration screen. This is the same discovery mechanism that powers device grouping later: every amplifier the app finds on the network becomes available for individual or grouped control immediately.
X-Sense AI Room Calibration
This is the app's flagship feature: play a calibrated frequency sweep through the connected amplifier, and X-Sense measures how the room actually responds using the phone's own microphone, then automatically applies corrective EQ to flatten the response at the listening position. No external measurement microphone, no separate calibration software, no specialist visit — the entire process runs from the phone that's already in your hand. It's the same class of room correction normally reserved for professionally commissioned systems, made accessible to a single-room streaming setup.
AirPlay 2 and Spotify Connect, Built In
The Air Amp and Air Mini work natively as AirPlay 2 and Spotify Connect targets — they appear directly in Apple's AirPlay device list and Spotify's Connect device list with no separate pairing step inside the XSCACE Controller app. The app's job here is control (volume, EQ, grouping), not the streaming handoff itself, which is exactly why source switching between an iPhone playing AirPlay and a laptop playing Spotify happens without touching the app at all.
EQ and Presets
Six built-in EQ presets — Flat, Harman, Warm, Bright, Jazz, and Cinema — cover the common tonal preferences without requiring a manual EQ session, alongside a parametric and tonal EQ view for anyone who wants to set curves by hand. Channel Select allows switching between stereo, left-only, or right-only output, useful both for testing during setup and for custom installs where a single amplifier feeds an asymmetric room.
Device Grouping for Multi-Room Control
Group multiple Air Amp and Air Mini units together and control them as a single system — adjust volume across every grouped room simultaneously, or manage each amplifier individually when a single room needs to be treated differently. This is what turns a collection of single-room streaming amplifiers into a coordinated whole-home system without adding a dedicated whole-home control platform.
XSCACE Controller at a Glance
- One-tap guided Wi-Fi setup with automatic device discovery
- X-Sense AI room calibration using the phone's built-in microphone
- Native AirPlay 2 and Spotify Connect targets
- Six EQ presets plus manual parametric and tonal EQ
- Stereo, left-only, or right-only channel selection
- Multi-room device grouping with synchronized volume control
XSCACE Controller vs. Network Controller: Which One Do You Need?
XSCACE makes two separate control apps because they solve two different problems. XSCACE Controller, covered here, is built for the Air Amp and Air Mini streaming amplifiers — single-room or lightly multi-room setups where the priority is fast setup and everyday volume, EQ, and streaming control from a phone. The separate XSCACE Network Controller is a Mac and Windows desktop application built for the Xylem DSP amplifier series, aimed at the commissioning stage of a multi-zone architectural install — per-channel routing, time alignment, and RT60-based room correction across an entire system, not a single amplifier.
If your system is one or two rooms of Air Amp or Air Mini, XSCACE Controller is the only app you need. If a project is being specified with the Xylem series for whole-home or commercial multi-zone audio, an integrator will be the one running Network Controller during commissioning — but the resulting system is still what gets controlled day to day, typically through a separate control platform like Control4 or Crestron once commissioning is complete.
XSCACE Controller is free to download on the App Store and Google Play for any owner of the Air Amp or Air Mini.