Chromecast Audio setup tips

[WiWavelength (Andrew J Shepherd)]

@Erik_Reckase

After connecting them I was not terribly satisfied with the audio quality compared to the Squeezeboxes, so I dug around in the audio settings for the players in Google Home, and buried under the Audio device features is a ‘Full dynamic range’ switch that was OFF for every single player that I had connected. Flipping that switch is critical to getting these units to sound good.

Chromecast Audio Full dynamic range setting is not a dynamic range setting. It is an analog output level setting. Toggled on, Full dynamic range outputs CD standard maximum 2 V, which is expected for modern home audio equipment but which may present an unexpectedly high analog input level for many portables or other devices with stereo miniplug inputs. The setting has no effect on the mini TOSLINK digital output.

AJ