Recent content by Vim Fuego

Didn't actually tell me anything technical about MQA at all, or why I would want this over established DSD format (which may DAC accepts natively), or steaming FLAC 24/96 PCM. It appears MQA is just yet another way of compressing hd audio, and it's worse than FLAC, as MQA appears to be lossy in...

That's the point. Spotify is always standard resolution, and at best standard bitrate, regardless of how you stream it. Chromecast supports flac 24/96 streaming which other services do stream. I think the way I worded it might have been a tad confusing. It was the other services that did HD...

I would say that isn't the best advice to give, you don't even back up that statement with any evidence. Spotify Connect is low bit rate compressed service. So when a chromecast dongle (or better still built in Chromecast, which some units have) does Spotify onboarding along with everything...

I guess if I'd spent over a grand on Sonos kit and found out a £20 dongle could do the same, and I didn't need to get rid of all my existing kit, then I wouldn't really want to admit I might have been stung... :-)

Indeed, those £20 Chromecast Audio dongles truly are the jack of all trades, master of all trades... I picked up a bunch of them when they were being discontinued by Google, got 6 of them around the house, plugged into various devices, and it makes a very inexpensive, but very decent and very...

The technical term for this is onboarding . It's telling the receiver what to stream, rather than streaming it from your device. It's how Chromecast, Spotfy Connect, Sonos, AllPlay, AirPlay HEOS and many other devices work. Personally, I wouldn't look for Spotify Connect, it's Spotify only...

I don't consider myself an audio snob, but Spotify Connect isn't a quality based music source, it's only marginally better than the connecting via Bluetooth (the work of the devil himself). It's great to have the features for convenience, but if you are spending upwards of a few hundred quid...

I suspect you are missing something. Chromecast Audio and Chromecast are different products. Chromecast Audio dongles run any "dumb" hifi into a smart multiroom system. You can cast from apps like Spotify, use Internet radio, it even support full HD audio (24/96 flac), something even the...

Thumbs up for the CEOL-N10 here. Picked one up with a pair of Q Acoustics 3020i for less than £500 from Richer Sounds, and I'm liking it ALOT. I can stream very high bitrate DSF files from SACD and it sounds superb. Even low bitrate Spotify and Internet radio sound great. I got a chromecast...

Only 4 years too late to the party, and even then, not real HD. Weren't Qualcomm doing 24/96 flac multiroom with much lower latency like 4 years ago with Allplay? Chromecast Audio dongles do 24/96 flac multiroom with much lower latency, optical output and can be picked up for £15 to turn...