Streaming music using Google Chromecast Audio
Posted by: Joshua Huang on 09 January 2017
Recently I bought a Google Chromecast audio out of curiosity while it was on sale, but as soon as I tried it with my headphone (AKG Q701, Sennheiser HD598, Senneiheiser Amperior...) using Google play music streaming, I can't believe how good the sound quality and how much power it has! I know part of the reason is the music is directly streaming from Google play music sever without going to my smart phone (Sony Xperia Z3) first, but the quality of the streaming music is just too good to believe, so smooth and so much details. I am surprised by the power of the Chromecast audio as well, to be honest, it sounds it has much more power than my trusted FIIO E12 and even sounds better, especially when push my AKG Q701, it really makes this headphones sing out loud! So I decided to buy a second Chromecast audio just for my Naim SuperNait for listening to the streaming music, wow! almost feels like listening to a CD! I first tried connect to the SuperNait's AUX input, sound really good, then tried connect to the DIN input 1 using a 3.5mm/DIN cable from Chord, even better! the last I tried is using a toslink cable manufactured by DH Labs, also good as well. I haven't tried more expensive streaming device like SONOX connect or the streamers from Naim, and wondering how Google Chromecast Audio can compare to them? Anyone has tried?