Has someone tried a better power supply with this unit ? That could be really interesting.īut for now, it's perfect for my bedroom/kitchen/office/casual listening and I would even recommend it for any budget highend system as well. This could mean offcoarse that the toslink out has pretty high jitter because the same overpronounced truncated treble (typical jitter related) sound signature was still there. I have compared it's internal dac to toslink out via a tda1543 nos dac and there is almost no difference whatsoever. The build in DAC is pretty decent and they even build in a digitally controlled analog volume control output driver, how neat is that.

Like all cheap devices it has some sibilance and an overpronounced truncated treble compared to more expensive dacs but on the other hand it does not sound an inch worse then a Sonos Connect of ten times the price, seriously. It does sound way more expensive then 39 euro's it costs over here in europe. Obviously it's not the best in the world but for this money it is outragious good. For hifi you have to turn the compressor of, or in other words, turn the HDR function on.Īs for sound quality. These small speakers get overloaded quite easily so a compressor helps a lot here. By default the Chromecast has a compressor on to protect al these small powered speakers that are so popular today. High Dynamic Range means turning the compressor off. If you are looking for a Foobar/Jriver streamer look elsewhere. Hey it's google, inventors of 'The Cloud' They strongly believe in this concept and will be heading in this direction even further. It was designed with Spotify/deezer/pandora whatever service in mind. That's what it is designed for and that's what it is doing very well. The chrome cast stream music directly from the net. Your phone/tablet/pc is only the remote control for this device, they don't stream music to it. What sets it apart from streamers like the well known airport express is that it makes contact with the music streaming service by itself. It is not designed as a streamer, although it can do that. Only use it with Deezer and an android phone wich works perfect. Got a Chromecast Audio since last weekend.

Jriver chromecast