Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

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Velocio

I just discovered the long discontinued ChromeCast Audio has a toslink out!

How did I not know this?

Anyhow... hooked it up to a Windows machine and it's a little jittery, so hooked it up to an AudioEngine DAC and then to the Windows machine and it's clean... the anti-jitter of a good DAC and the cheap as chips ChromeCast Audio actually shines.

This is now my setup.

Do I hear the difference? Nope, of course not. It was good enough before and is still good enough, but still... optical to a good DAC now rather than the ChromeCast Audio DAC.

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kkg337 in reply to @Velocio

with this in mind - sense check. If I have an audiolab 6000A amp, which puportedly uses the same DAC as the 6000N streamer - and am using chromecast -> optical in, then 6000N streamer is going to be largely redundant in terms of sound quality, if I don't need any of the actual streaming features?

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Velocio in reply to @kkg337

In theory yes.

And if you're using something like PlexAmp or Roon to do the casting then you'll be matching the 6000N capabilities anyway.

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