Having access to lossless music I'd purchased - and rips of CDs that I'd packed into cardboard boxes - on a decent set of speakers reminds me how much audio quality can impact your enjoyment of an album. Obviously, I could now listen to my Spotify playlists and Google Play library on my stereo, instead of my computer. (And one for my father, so he could stop relying on a crappy iPod dock plugged into his phone's headphone jack.) And frankly, few things have changed the way I listen to music quite as much. And the $349 Sonos Connect is a tough sell.īut at just $35, the Chromecast Audio was a tenth of the price. I didn't want to buy completely separate speakers just for streaming audio. See, I could never bring myself to splurge on a Sonos system. But For anything non-vinyl I still had to plug my phone into the receiver using a good old-fashioned aux cable.īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. Eventually I cleaned up a pair of floor speakers and we got a new turntable. For a couple of years literally the only way we had to listen to music was a computer and iTunes. And I ditched my aging Aiwa bookshelf system with its five-disc changer and dual cassette desks.
In addition to what we've amassed on our own, we inherited hundreds from her father who was a DJ in the '70s and '80s.īut during a move about eight years back we decided to put my CDs in storage. And I literally have no idea how many records my wife and I own. Before it went into storage, my CD collection neared 1,200. Playing Spotify or Google Play music through my stereo though, without having to physically plug my phone in, was huge for me.įirst let's set the stage: I am a huge music nerd with a pretty sizable collection of CDs and vinyl.
#Google chromecast audio tv#
Streaming YouTube to my TV wasn't exactly a game changer. I love my regular Chromecasts a lot, but I had been a Roku user for years. But the one that hurt me the most, was Chromecast Audio. Some of them are sorely missed ( Google Reader). Google has killed a lot of products over the years.
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