I currently stream Tidal HiFi to a Chromecast Audio which is connected optically to my Schiit Yggy. I thought it sounded great, and love sitting on the couch and playing anything I want using my phone.
Last night I hooked a notebook up to the Yggy via USB and played my music from the Tidal windows app. It sounds better.
How do I achieve the same quality (or better) of streaming while not having to get my ass off the couch to change songs? Is there something like a CCA that has much better jitter?
@sboje What type of notebook are you using, PC? Mac?
There are various remote apps online, that you can download to your phone/tablet so you don't have to get up every time you want to change the track or album.
I have my iMac connected to my Wyred4Sound DAC, and I use Audirvana with remote app on my iPad. Works like a charm.
I stream Tidal using BlueOs application on my mobile device from anywhere in the house. But you need a Bluesound Node2 or another Bluesound gear to accomplish this. I've compared the Node2 with running Tidal application from my PC using asynchronous USB via a separate DAC and I honestly couldn't tell the difference, especially now that BluOs mobile application supports Tidal Masters with MQA. The Tidal integration with Bluesound is literally seamless.
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