audiomagnate
Addicted Member
Coincident with the well-promoted multi-room hi-rez update for the recently introduced Chromecast Audio, Google quietly "broke" 24 bit FLAC and WAV streaming capabilities of the current Chromcast and Chromecast 1st gen. Those devices passed bit-perfect streams of up to 24/192 resolution with little or no processing into HDMI capable DACs until the update. Now 24 bit WAV files play as static and FLAC files are choppy and unlistenable. The Chromecast Audio has a built in DAC, but it transcodes everything to 48K internally, and is limited to 96K input. It was nice while it lasted (two years!), REALLY nice. Untill I figure out a way to hack and freeze a rollback of the Chromecast firmware my Kromecaster is now limited to 16/44.1 playback. I don't think I've sold any to AKers, but if I have PM me and I will work with you.
