Chromecast requires you to navigate via your phone, tablet or laptop and then output to the TV, while Fire TV does it all on the television via a remote control.īut if that doesn’t sound user friendly enough, Google has a more advanced option: Chromecast with Google TV.
Well, worry not, because it’s actually very different. The only problem now, might be finding one on sale.On the surface, that makes Chromecast a bit like Fire TV. In a world increasingly defined by the latest products, it is great to see something that rewards you for holding on to your existing equipment. We are big fans of the original Google Chromecast, and we're hugely excited to see that bag of streaming tricks being used for music. Google has definitely achieved that particular objective. The Chromecast Audio is a simple and slick device with one goal in mind: to bring wireless music streaming to systems that may be in need of updating, without having to replace all your existing kit. That means Spotify, for example, has a maximum quality of 320kbps. Google has been tight-lipped about the technical specifics, but we do know the bitrates are dictated by what individual apps can do. The Chromecast Audio also saves you battery power, as your smartphone doesn’t actually handle any data. Connecting over wi-fi also means your music doesn’t get interrupted by the sound of text messages and alerts, as it does when using Bluetooth. The performance certainly reflects that assertion: the Chromecast Audio’s wi-fi sound offered noticeably greater detail and dynamism than we got over Bluetooth. That is somewhat redundant given the speaker’s built-in wireless capabilities, but Google is keen to stress that wi-fi has a huge advantage over Bluetooth, namely less compression. Next we tried the Chromecast Audio with a B&W T7 Bluetooth speaker.
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