I need to eat my words about the CCA. I have now powered it off a USB port from my Anker battery pack that also powers my Beresford Caiman 2 DAC that the CCA is optically connected to. I'm gobsmacked at this arrangement. Folks, if you have a CCA, try feeding it off a suitable USB battery pack.
Rana,
I'm considering a Caiman SEG and would like to use with a CCA. How do you rate the CCA compared to other sources with the Caiman?
And with what accuracy could you pick out the right one? What source material did you use? Honestly interested, because successfully telling 256k AAC from lossless is pretty rare except with a few pathological tracks. There are supposedly some people who do have reduced hearing at some frequencies that does prevent the perceptual masking from working, but that seems pretty rare.
Yes. And even better, you could switch your iPhone off, and Google would continue to stream your music directly from the cloud to your Chromecast Audio. That is, the music does not stream from or through your iPhone, as with AirPlay, but streams directly to the Chromecast, missing out your iPhone. Your iPhone becomes "just" a remote control.I use the free google play music app which allows me to upload 50,000 songs for free.
If I buy one of these can I stream my music from the app on my iPhone to it?
Yes. And even better, you could switch your iPhone off, and Google would continue to stream your music directly from the cloud to your Chromecast Audio. That is, the music does not stream from or through your iPhone, as with AirPlay, but streams directly to the Chromecast, missing out your iPhone. Your iPhone becomes "just" a remote control.
It can stream from a NAS drive, yes. I haven't yet made mine do this, or take the music fom my lappy, but I believe it's possible.Sweet! Thanks Mark.
Would It also be able to stream music from something like a WD mycloud wireless NAS drive?
Cheers
Curtis
Rana
What are you using as a battery supply?
I'm sure it would. How long it lasts is anyone's guess, but it's going to be a few hours. If the CCA draws 500mA (say?) then you'll get 13 hours. Even at 1A it will run for 6 hours, and I doubt the CCA can draw 1A. It has no heatsink so I suspect 1A would melt it in a very short time.
So natara's device will only run 20 hours or so between charges. Sounds good enough, I'm sure he sleeps for more than 4 hours in order to get it charged.The CCA draws about 300mA - I measured mine.