Google Chromecast Audio Black – victor1701

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A beautiful, brilliant and simple gadget to your music from your phone, tablet, pc or smart tv through wi-fi to your speakers and stream. The sound is of excellent high quality.

Pros

  • Small, Compact
  • Simple to connect
  • Simple to set up on your phone
  • Good wi-fi reception all the protocols up to and including 5-GHz 802.11 AC supports
  • Not expensive at all
  • Excellent sound quality

Cons

  • no

Final conclusion

Score: 5Per criterion

Build quality

Score: 4

Introduction

I am since a few weeks playing with plex software. For the genes that don’t know what plex is. plex is a software package that allows your video and music and photos to your tablet or phone and even your smart tv can stream. As a test, I have plex on my desktop pc ge lwa installed. plex would be the best on a nas servertje should run. But first I wanted to gain experience before I have a nas, go to purchase. But yes how you now get your music on your desktop pc is well to your speakers that might be in your living room, bedroom and or bijkamers. Well the answer is chromecast audio of google.

Possibilities

A wonderful little gadget. In this small round disc is a wi-fi receiver and an audio chip. The wi-fi is responsible for receiving the sound. The audio chip converts the digital signals to signals that your speakers understand. Both the wi-fi as the audio chip or DAC mentioned are of high quality. The wi-fi recognizes all protocols 802.11/a/b/g/n on 2.4 Ghz and 802.11 ac on 5 GHz. The DAC chip is even so good that many audiophile digital music can enjoy, provided your speakers have a optical input. But I notice it with the regular RCA cable connection can’t. I had an extra cable in order for the supplied aux cable can’t on my speakers. So I have a aux to RCA cable ordered. With the latest software (firmware) update you can the same music to multiple speakers at the same time send also known under the name of Multicasting.
Also, there is support for super audio at 96KHz/24-bit. Provided your speakers support it. See article http://tweakers.net/nieuw…multi-room-streaming.html

Install

The device to install it went to my surprise very easy. on the inside of the package is a quick start guide. Here is indicated to the device on the power cord to connect to your speakers. Make sure that you have the correct audio cable. Not every speaker can the included aux cable to be used. On your pc or phone do you go in your browser to chromecast.com/setup this site refers you to the google play store, or unless you have an iphone, visit the apple app store and install the chromecast app.

After the startup of the app, follow the instructions. You must keep your wi-fi password at hand, otherwise you can chromecast unable to connect to your wi-fi network.

TIP After you configure allows you to chromecast just 10 min alone so that google quietly put the latest firmware on can remotely install. And then reboot the device via the app and then you are ready for it.

To obtain

At the time of writing this chromecast audio but in 2 shops. You can find him in the Media market pick up where I’ve ordered but also to redcoon.

Mediamarkt http://www.mediamarkt.nl/…mecast-audio-1409858.html
Redcoon http://www.redcoon.nl/B62…-Y6NkvdGm5ggyQaAhhk8P8HAQ

Specifications

Wi-fi 802.11/a/b/g/n 2.4 Ghz 802.11 ac 5 GHz
1x Connector Digital Optical (S/PDIF), Jack plug 3.5 mm
Supported operating systems:
– Android 4.1 and higher
– iOS 7.0 and higher
– Mac OS X 10.7 and higher
– Windows 7 or higher

Included

Chromecast audio
Power adapter with usb cable
3.5 mm jack plug cable

Used in combination with:

  • Motorola Nexus 6 64GB Blue
  • Edifier R2000DB
  • Plex Media Player

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