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18. Nov 2017
Zip broke
Eb*y doesn't like it when you're negative about something. Look at the picture I took
This is what happened when I opened the package to inspect it. Make up your own mind.
I wouldn't recommend the product.
28. Jun 2017
It's a SONOS killer, read the review
2 von 2 finden das hilfreich SO, set it up as per instructions, but first download Google Home which leads you to Google Play Music.
Get the companion app for your music server/source PC and upload your audio mp3/FLAC/WAV to Google for free. The APP is Called GOOGLE MUSIC MANAGER.
Google Play is a subscription service but also gives you the ability to upload ans store up to 50 thousand tracks of any length, online/cloud for free. It does the soft sell on its subscription service like TIDAL or SPOTIFY but goes one better, it still lets you archive and use your own music and benefit from the full functionality of the Chromecast Audio when you want to.
Google will 'fingerprint' your music and then let you effectively store and use the music anywhere, home or away, CHromecast or just listening via the App. It's awesome.
I won't go into the functionality of the device, or the capabilities of the software across the iOS or Android plaforrms, but it works well to cast to your own amplifier via home network, without too much hassle at all.
The big thing is here: It's a SONOS killer.
You need to have an amplifier and speakers in each room. Go buy them at a charity shop or on this very site. Get secondhand stuff and do your homework.
Time to fully exploit this hardware!
Right, are you ready? Get a cheapo DAC "Digital to Audio Analog Optical Coax Coaxial Toslink RCA R/L Converter Adapter"
Get a TOSLINK to Mini TOSLINK fibre optic cable
This means you get top quality audio, and the fibre means it will be clean and without interference when it goes into the amp.
You next want to skip the WIFI connection and the laggy horridness and go straight to wired networking. You'll need to get a nice CAT5 ethernet cable, maybe 10M long, check where you want to put the Chromecast Audio.
The Chromecast Audio supports having ethernet through its power cable, and they sell an accessory, if you can find one. If you can, get it.
If you can't, you'll need an adapter to join the USB-mains power adapter into the network ethernet cable. You'll also need a USB-ethernet/CAT5 dongle.
These work:
eBay item number: 272287853295
eBay item number: 162019978040
Y-cable: eBay item number: 272287853295
Plug all that badness in, you can't really go wrong, it's geeky but you'll get it if you got this far!
USB power is provided from the Chromecast mains adapter, which then powers the Chromecast, the Ethernet-USB adapter and wires through that Y cable.
Why?: Because, if you go into the App settings and select HiDef audio, or something like, you'll get the full 192kHz quality, without the buzz from direct wire with that yellow horrid wire, without the lag of wifi.
The audio-out of the Chromecast Audio puck supports NOT ONLY 3.5mm line-level audio BUT ALSO fibre-optic light. Same hole! SAME HOLE. It's got its own DAC but if there's a buzz on the system, it gets carried over. Best avoided.
This system optically decouples any sources of ground-loop interference or mains buzz to your amplifier and speakers.
The five-quid cheapo DAC is superb. DOn't believe the twonks who deny it's any good. I've had two, both working.
I use FLAC (from my home server) and Chromecast Audio AND CD through the same amplifier, and I can report, without doubt, that this setup really kicks the spots off any SONOS or similar system. It kills BT audio, it KILLS AptX, you can control it, you don't have to buy any more crappy subscriptions if you already have the music you like. You have the music at home or away, anywhere you have 3G/4GLTE/WIFI
It's through any Android or iOS device.
Your ears will be bathed in warm honey.
12. Sep 2024
Great lock. Look up the Lockpicking Lawy...
Great lock. Look up the Lockpicking Lawyer and his review, then do your homework and buy this lock in the right size and with thumbturn, or key. That's it.