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Posted 21 November 2016
GOOGLE Chromecast Audio Was £30 Now £15 @ Currys
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Easily cast music to your speakers
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sorted byHow much customer service so you really need for a £15 item though? You can spend that on lunch.
Price match with John Lewis for 2 year warranty :-)
So true, but maybe it's principle of supporting such a business
Remember the words of Mark Twain - 'Never argue with a Currys salesman. He'll drag you down to their level, and beat you with experience''.
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I've just picked up two CC audios from Currys and they both kill my router.
Connect these to an amp (Lepy 2024a+) circa £20 and some ceiling speakers....
Nice find OP - heat added.
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BT has a range of 10m I think? and with BT you are streaming directly from your phone, using batt and data if not on Wi-Fi. With this you stream (Wi-Fi required) from say Google Play Music straight to the Chromecast, your phone or another device acts as a remote control, so you could leave the house and music will still be playing.
Hiya. Some main things.
Much better sound quality - device has 192KHz.24bit DAC and offers digital optical output, and WiFi is much higher bandwidth than Bluetooth.
Your phone/tablet does not need to be on when streaming (no battery drain).
Better range over WiFi.
The ability to setup zones/groups and have all devices within zones play same music.
etc.
Bluetooth's current use of sbc encoding via the a2dp profile can compress an mp3/acc stream even further (it shouldn't but it can)
Also the range is limited via the bluetooth class (both need to be the same class) so a 10m/100m may apply.
Also with bluetooth you get the notifications sent thru to the speakers
Also you can't use your phone for other this.
None of the above apply to chrome cast audio .. - you can use your device thats chrome casting for other things. - ie multitasking ..
You'll want the £20 regular Chromecast in Argos for that - this is audio only
Yes, for most people I am sure it would be fine, but 50,000 is not enough for me
also I have the original chromecast, and use localcast to stream my movies from my "unlimited" Google Drive.
Your idea is sound though and in most use cases would be good enough, thanks!
1) I would say it's as good as a wired connection because the CC Audio is actually playing the music direct from the internet to your speakers. Even if you are streaming local content the sound quality is also good but the quality can vary from app to app.
2) You can play local content, Google Chrome browser allows you to cast your laptops audio. There are also other 3rd party pieces of free software that can do the same thing.
1) THE DAC is pretty damned good for the price and size so unless you are comparing it to a decent CD player or hifi streamer, I would say yes. I have a few of these in a multi-room set-up, two straight into low cost amps and two more through decent external DACs and Hifi amps. All sound excellent and synchronise perfectly out of the box - have no idea how they do it!
2) You can stream any content you like. Online is great because the Chromecast takes over the streaming itself, so your phone just becomes a remote, things like Iplayer Radio are flawlessly integrated. I tend to stream from my local network where I have all my music stored as FLACs on a NAS drive which works well with BubbleUPNP (and again the Chromecast manages this connection, not your phone). It will also stream straight from your phone/tablet if necessary.
Hope that helps.
You might find this frequent asked questions page useful:
support.google.com/chr…-GB
Any objective difference in quality is likely to be totally overshadowed by your own subjective listening preferences. Try both, optical cables are cheap. I run one through the DAC of a Cambridge Stream Magic into a Cambridge amp and prefer it to going direct to the amp but I tend to be a big fan of the Cambridge "sound".
Given that iTunes is Apple and this is Google, I would be surprised. Your best bet would probably be to use Google Music and import your stuff from iTunes.
Yes it can. It can also Sync with the New Google Home assistant speakers
Nope . Much much much much (etc.) better than that. It connects directly the 'net to stream music from a variety of sources. It's got an audiophile digital audio converter. It can be used on groups/zones to send music to areas of your home. It uses WiFi so its range is much further than any Bluetooth device.
If you're going to compare it to anything it's a Sonos connect, but at less than 1/17th of the price.
It's £15, so buy one and have a play (they are selling on ebay for more, so you can always get your money back!).
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You devil, you.
Can anyone recommend ...
1. A decent mains powered single speaker with a USB port and phono on the back to power the Chromecast pls.. After something to go in the kitchen but dont want to keep recharging and dont want wires everywhere (ie want the chromecast secreted at the back) Circa £100
2. A hifi quality amp that again has usb and phono on the back. Circa £200-300
Thanks
Not really. It's 10,000x better than Bluetooth. See other posts.
Cool. Now read all the posts that explain why this is 10,000x better than Bluetooth... 8). Start with #40
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do i need premium services for it work?
thanks
Trumpville (_;)
What? You mean you're still buying lunch from Greggs when this beauty is available?
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Yup - £5 more than a Chromecast Audio!
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Yep (support.google.com/chr…416?hl=en-GB)
Do you have to be a paid subscriber for that? Everywhere I've looked suggests you do. Would love it to be free of course.
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Yes although it sounds mad this has just happened to me. I called BT who told me there was a fault on the line - but I wasn't convinced - I thought the router had died. But eventually found it was actually caused by a chromecast audio, it had been working fine for 6 months and must have just got an OTA update today. How this has slipped through google QA i have no idea. Please be aware of this, so you don't waste an entire evening trying to figure it out - like I just have.
Actually it does, just google and you'll see it's a serious issue that is effecting hundreds if not thousands of chrome-cast owners.
As I've already stated my audio cast caused my BT Homehub5 to continually crash/reboot which results in the router performing a self hard reset (ALL custom settings wiped :-( )
only if you have old equipment. it only affects people signed to preview programme that got early chromecast models
Probably either stereo or 2.1. I'll try gumtree, maybe ebay too as I'm not in the most populated of areas. Cheers.