Chromecast Audio

[Leeken]

Tried a mobile battery,really wanted to hear a difference,couldn’t so back to thinking about a linear ps and a Ethernet,just don’t want to shed money out to not hear a difference!

[Bourneendboy]

I'm still keen to know what a CCA is like up against a Pi into a decent DAC- what are your views fellas?

[struth]

My digi one Into dac is way better than my cca's

[Silent]

I'm still keen to know what a CCA is like up against a Pi into a decent DAC- what are your views fellas?

CCA falls behind the Pi but it is cheaper

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[Silent]

Rabbit hole Nick....let us know your impressions.

I would be interested on your impressions of power bank v lead acid on the CCA.

Might get the band back together and run my CCA and Innous zen via battery....

It's fun to try different components so as much as I think new interconnects are the final piece of the puzzle I'm just kidding myself lol

I'll get my head around it soon. I'm really hoping it's better than the power bank but I don't think the internals of the powerbank are making a huge difference so I'm not sure the battery will improve on it.

Is your Zen currently battery powered?!



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[eisenach]

My Chromecast Audio arrived today. Via it's optical out to the MM30 DAC board in my Primare preamp, it sounds very good indeed. I'm very impressed by the whole thing. It may even get me into internet streaming. Qobuz CD quality at £9.99/month anyone?

[Stryder5]

I'm still keen to know what a CCA is like up against a Pi into a decent DAC- what are your views fellas?

It would be good to have this comparison, with the proviso that it's like for like where possible. Both have to be fed into the same DAC with an equivalent optical lead, ensuring that the software is set to optimum.

The supply should be of similar quality.

The costs of both should be declared to help define cost benefits.

Any ancillary equipment that is required to make them work should be stated.

For the non tech of us a brief outline of initial setup procedures.

Of course this will always be subjective.

Gary

[Silent]

It would be good to have this comparison, with the proviso that it's like for like where possible. Both have to be fed into the same DAC with an equivalent optical lead, ensuring that the software is set to optimum.

The supply should be of similar quality.

The costs of both should be declared to help define cost benefits.

Any ancillary equipment that is required to make them work should be stated.

For the non tech of us a brief outline of initial setup procedures.

Of course this will always be subjective.

Gary

I tried Spotify via the CCA and the Pi. Fed to the same DAC, same optical, same headphones. Pi used volumio to stream Spotify.

Pi: quite bright for my ears but plenty of sound stage and separation.

CCA: far more neutral, preferred this. Separation and sound stage was good but a few points short of the pi.

Detail was the same via both.

The comparison I didn't like was between my MBP and the Pi. Using the same hard drive to feed the FLAC files. Not sure if it's because I'm used to my Mpb and I like the way it sounds as a feed that I couldn't get used to FLAC on the Pi. Pi wasn't worse as far as I could tell just different and I didn't really like it.

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[mikeyb]

Already been a couple of replies staying that the CCA is ok for the money but not as good as a Pi with add on DAC such as the Piano/Kali combo or the Digione.

I also mentioned it wasn't as good as my SoTm streamer, both CCA and SoTm into the same DAC albeit with different connections as one is optical and the other USB. CCA was a good bit behind in overall sound quality, soundstage less, bass less, not as detailed, treble had a slight harshness to it.

The CCA wasn't as good as my Amazon Fire TV using Spotify to my system via optical

Don't get me wrong, at under £30 the CCA is a great buy and would do well in most lower budget systems and is simple to set up and use. But in my system it couldn't compete.

As for like for like comparison with same setup, ain't gonna be easy, no easy way to get linear PSU AND Ethernet connection into the CCA ( I don't think off the shelf anyway ) and only a few of Pi DAC Hats use optical and those that do aren't as good as the Allo dacs.

So it would need someone with a bit of cash and the know how to bodge a linear/ethernet doohicky, simpler just stick to your budget and buy whichever one suits that.

[Stryder5]

@Silent.

Thanks for your quick reply, interesting, have you tried through your speaker system, if so were your observations the same?

Gary