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| Streamers with best apps? @Mazian, Yes Chromecast will work with Tidal on both Android and iPhones. If you have at least one castable device (like the TV you mentioned), you should see the cast icon in the top right corner for most of you streaming apps. In fact, if you se... | |
| Streamers with best apps? @ MazianI agree that Chromecast, in its basic implementation, is downmarket. But I would point out that the the Chromecast hardware and the Chromecast software are different things that share the same name. Cambridge says they now support the Chro... | |
| Streamers with best apps? Hey Mazian, ditch Tidal for the Idagio streaming service. It has the best indexing for classical music and is available in Australia. Idagio also supports Chromecast as does your CXN. You won't have to worry about any streamer software as you'll b... | |
| Streamers with best apps? Hi Mazian, I agree that the software side of streaming is incredibly important. Have you tried streaming via Chromecast with your Cambridge CXN? My understanding is that Cambridge incorporates Chromecast into their streaming hardware. Over Chromec... | |
| Any tweaks I'm missing? @ OP,you're like the typical skyrim modder with so many mods. I'd like to think that good mods can be additive. Mine have been so far. Plenty of people are happy playing vanilla skyrim, but vanilla is all they're going to get. For the tinkerers ou... | |
| What's a really great Streamer/DAC box for just streaming Tidal? @dtx I would like to push back as to how much streamers matter. Would you be willing to compare your Node against a Chromecast? And would you be willing willing to try to place a reclocker between your streamer and DAC, like the iFi SPDIF reclocker? | |
| What's a really great Streamer/DAC box for just streaming Tidal? @OP in addition to sound quality and aesthetic considerations, I find that a streamer’s software also plays an important role. The BluOS was one of the few day-one supporters for Amazon Music’s new high res streams. For that reason, I consider str... | |
| What's a really great Streamer/DAC box for just streaming Tidal? @larry5729(1) If you use optical out of a streamer, you will bypass that streamer’s DAC. You are only using one DAC. (2) I don’t exactly know which S2 DAC your have, but even if your S2 supports MQA, it may not be decoding MQA. For example the Pre... | |
| Best budget streamer on the market now? @tlee1, have you tried the bluesound with the iFi reclocker? I wonder about the value of the Nodes as merely streamers. | |
| Best budget streamer on the market now? Yes...Qobuz doesn’t have the resources to invest in user experience, design, library size, content curation, et al., to compete with Amazon Music. I don’t know how Qobuz will distinguish themselves going forward. Qobuz will start bleeding market s... | |
| Best budget streamer on the market now? @OP, you have to select a song to see the cast button. Try playing a song then looking in the top right. I use android too. It’s an unfortunate user experience issue to Qobuz.Google cast is the platform agnostic solution that small hardware manufa... | |
| Best budget streamer on the market now? @dtx, casting goes over WiFi but you get to use your phone as remote, just like the bluesound app. You just get to use the UI that the streaming service built.@OP, upon reading, I may have misunderstood you about casting. I have heard that Blueso... | |
| Best budget streamer on the market now? I recommend you try the Amazon Music service. It has a bigger music selection than Qobuz and also supports casting. Amazon just released a $200 streamer too. Darko reviewed it. Check it out too. Darko says it's the worst streamer he's heard but un... | |
| Best budget streamer on the market now? OP, I use a Chromecast with Qobuz. Ditch that app. You can cast directly to the Chromecast from the Qobuz app by "casting." Click on a song. In the top right corner is a rectangle. Click that and choose the Chromecast attached to you HiFi. Then pl... | |
| Ethernet Cable or Not? OP, My setup seems most similar to yours. I run a chromecast audio via optical into a peachtree decco65. I had a 50’ cat 7 cable, so I figured I’d buy $12 ethernet adapter and connect the cable to the chromecast. This tweak made the least differen... |