Tidal’s Masters setting outputs the proprietary MQA format, which, using a lossy compression algorithm, can pack high-resolution music files (e.g. When Tidal outputs in HiFi mode, the resulting files are streamed at 16-bit/44.1kHz resolutions. Depending mostly on the quality of the DAC in your receiver, this may be a better way to connect your Chromecast Audio. This allows your receiver’s DAC to convert the signal from digital to analog. If you purchase what’s called a mini-TosLink cable-which is a digital optical cable that has a 3.5mm connector on one end and a TosLink connector on the other-and connect that to the Chromecast Audio and the other end to the TosLink input on your receiver (all receivers have them), the Chromecast device will automatically bypass its own DAC and shoot out a digital signal to your receiver via the TosLink cable. When connected with an analog cable, the Chromecast uses its built-in digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to output an analog audio signal. Currently, you are connecting your Chromecast Audio to your receiver with an analog cable that has a 3.5mm connector on the Chromecast side and RCA connectors on the receiver side. What many people don’t realize is that the little Chromecast Audio jack outputs a digital or analog signal, depending on the type of cable you connect to it. I suppose the Masters setting on Tidal via Bluetooth is misleading since it gets compressed later on? So my question is whether Bluetooth or Chromecast Audio offer better quality from Tidal. However, when I use Tidal over Chromecast Audio it reverts to HiFi quality, as you mention in your answer to Kiran’s question. When I play Tidal over Bluetooth it uses the Masters setting, but I assume the quality is ultimately lowered due to the limitations of Bluetooth transmission (even with aptX). So, I am wondering how it can be used with TosLink. I have a Chromecast Audio but only ever used its 3.5mm output jack to connect to the RCA input of my AV receiver. What is the “partnering TosLink interconnect” you refer to in this sentence, and how are you using it with the Google Chromecast Audio streamer? You wrote: “I connected a Chromecast Audio wireless streamer ($35, discontinued), using its partnering TosLink interconnect ($10, discontinued), to one of the Billie’s TosLink inputs, so I could wirelessly stream uncompressed music from Tidal.” Thanks for reviewing the Heaven 11 Billie integrated amplifier-DAC. 2018-2019 EISA Awards Video Introduction.Please do move it if there is a better place for it. (Mods: I wasn't sure where to put this topic- I couldn't see a dedicated 'Audio' sub-forum so have put it in the 'Networking' one. Please do ask if my question doesn't make sense. (I know I can play music from one Ubuntu machine to another by configuring them as DLNA sinks but it's not possible to make them play without differing lag times between the machines, which makes them un-listenable.)Īll help welcomed, thank you. If I could make several Ubuntu laptops work as Chromecast Audios then I could play music in all the rooms in my house simultaneously. The reason I ask is that you can use two Chromecast Audio devices together to play music in sync, thus giving you effectively a multi-room audio system without needing to wire loads of sets of speakers in. Is there a way of configuring a Ubuntu machine to present itself to a network as a Chromecast Audio and play music that is cast to it? However I've wondered whether there is any way of setting up an Ubuntu machine as a Chromecast Audio and 'casting' music to it from my Android 'phone? i.e. I'm a big Android user and it's a great device. And mighty fine it is too - it allows me to play music from my Android 'phone to an amp and set of speakers wirelessly, with very good sound quality.
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