Comments on: Audioengine A5+ Wireless Powered Loudspeakers https://positive-feedback.com/reviews/hardware-reviews/audioengine-a5-loudspeakers-2/ A Creative Forum for the Audio Arts Sat, 06 Aug 2022 17:47:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Fiio Q5 https://positive-feedback.com/reviews/hardware-reviews/audioengine-a5-loudspeakers-2/#comment-881 Tue, 14 Aug 2018 01:09:55 +0000 http://positive-feedback.com/?p=27823#comment-881 […] connecting it to a pair of Audioengine A5+ Wireless powered loudspeakers (you can read that review HERE). I raved about the sound quality of the A5+ in my review, and anything played with a connection […]

]]> By: Alvester Garnett https://positive-feedback.com/reviews/hardware-reviews/audioengine-a5-loudspeakers-2/#comment-2307 Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:29:00 +0000 http://positive-feedback.com/?p=27823#comment-2307 If you'd like, you can take these speakers a step higher in terms of networked convenience and audio performance by adding in a Chromecast Audio dongle via the 3.5mm input. I did this with both a pair of A2+s in my home office and A2s sitting on my piano in our music room. This way I can sync these speakers for simultaneous playback with other Chromecast Audio devices throughout our home.

Chromecast Audio playback also allows higher resolution lossless playback (24/192) than AptxHD. Ultimately AptxHD, as great as it sounds, is still a lossy playback codec. Also by skipping Bluetooth and going with the network WiFi playback of Chromecast Audio you don't have to worry about your phone being in the 30 foot limitation of Bluetooth nor any notification sounds/phone calls from your phone or device interrupting your music

Audioengine's speakers that feature both RCA and 3.5mm inputs keep those inputs alive all the time so you also don't haveh to switch between inputs. If you'd like ou can actually playback through both inputs simultaneously and hear both sources.

On my office A2+ I have a NuPrime uDac handling my desktop PC's audio connected via RCA and the Chromecast Audio dongle is connected via 3.5mm. This makes the A2+ massively more convenient to use as if don't feel like it I don't have to turn on my computer just to listen to music in my home office. I have the option of just streaming to the Chromecast Audio instead. (I run BubbleUPnP Server on local machine that runs basically 24/7 as well as have a Google Play Music subscription which facilitates this.)

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