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    Feeling bored this morning, had read good things about the CCA.

    Took a trip to Currys.

    So first impressions are very favorable, how can anything for £30 sound this good straight from the box?

    Using some 3.5mm to RCA leads that I had lying around I played some familiar tunes. Tight, punchy and detailed, so musical.

    Playing through my Audio Analogue Puccini SE amp to Ruark Templar 1 speakers, I'm impressed!

    Waiting for Toslink lead to connect to my Jolida Glass FX Tube DAC to see any differences.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stryder5 View Post
    Waiting for Toslink lead to connect to my Jolida Glass FX Tube DAC to see any differences.
    Oh you will, or at least you should. For a while I ran my CCA through a Jolida Glass FX DAC and it was a very pleasing sound.

    Damn, I loved that Jolida DAC...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Getgaff View Post
    Oh you will, or at least you should. For a while I ran my CCA through a Jolida Glass FX DAC and it was a very pleasing sound.

    Damn, I loved that Jolida DAC...
    I am pleased with the DAC, it will be interesting.

    Which valves did you use?

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    I used these babies:

    https://theartofsound.net/forum/show...aytheon+jolida

    I have a spare lightly-used pair of the Reliability Controlled tubes if you’re interested

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    Will PM you

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    I tried Chromecast Audio a couple of weeks back.
    Optical in to my DSP DACs / X/O unit.
    With a linear 5v supply it is very good. With a Ethernet to usb converter and removing the switching PSU and giving it linear power it's insanely good!

    With either Spotify or Tidal it has the better of my laptop / Jriver / WaveIO I2S input route.

    Spotify is very sensitive to nice clean power and good streaming signal it seems, as until Ethernet / linear it was clearly inferior to Tidal. Now it's a level playing field.
    How or why that is / can be I cannot explain.

    I'm going to give my router a linear power supply next..

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    Connecting via DAC did indeed sound better all round, including soundstage.

    Will look at power supply, as suggested above.

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    A PSU will help, something like the iFi iPower or perhaps a Chinese LPSU from eBay.

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    Have started a new thread, but dumb question, what does the Chromecast offer to someone that doesn't stream, I want to "cast" my hard drive based music files round the house using my Rpi as source/transmitter?

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    Well I took Gary's advice and got a Chromecast Audio yesterday and must say it's bloody impressive.
    All I was using before was an old Galaxy S6 plugged into my amp via a headphone to RCA lead, the difference in sound is incredible.
    Thanks for the recommendation
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