Chromecast Audio - Sonos for 1/10th the price?

[Mr_Loon]

Took the plunge and bought a Chromecast Audio today, £30 in the UK.

Works as expected and am pleased to report the DAC seems good, music is warm and clear, pretty similar to the sound of the Pandora to my ear which is of course no bad thing.

For me it works really well as a bedside audio solution.

 

[comradekingu]

Its an armada 1500 SoC in there, google didnt mention that at all, came out in a press release from marvell

 

[Chip]

iFixit did a teardown of both new chromecasts.  Nothing too surprising.  DAC is an AKM AK4430 - 192KHz, 24bit stereo.  I have no idea whether this is "world class" or not (probably depends on your personal standards), but it's more than good enough for the sort of streaming audio sources that will be feeding it 95% of the time.