Customer Ratings & Reviews

Well done Google. Product is well built -- even though is plastic -- but it pairs nice with other audio gear. I left mine alongside with my guitar and other audio stuff, since they're at another room. So whenever I want to listen to Google Music -- Bang -- it is quite easy to launch it with my Galaxy phone. Installation was quite easy as well. My recommendation is planning in advance. This was an important piece for my gear collection.

We are music-lovin' fools and have been trying to create a cheep sonos for years. This is the ticket. Anything you own with an auxiliary input is in sync.

Optical output it's a very good and the connection with the Spotify is simple and fast.

So simple and does exactly what it describes. Very easy setup. (I did have to call my A/V receiver manufacturer 4 help W/their setup) Once connected & downloaded Google Cast App device went right to work. All my music Apps working seamlessly! Thanks Google.

it is a super fast way to add whole home audio to existing speakers and audio systems. The quality is decent enough that you can tell a difference depending upon the quality of your speakers.

Easy to setup and reliably streams music. I use my to feed tunes to an old tube RCA radio.

This product works great with Google Home and does well with streaming

Great design! Ready to use! Unmatched audio quality!

Great design! Ready to use! Unmatched audio quality!

The Chromecast Audio provides streaming capabilities to old hifi equipment/speakers that do not have Bluetooth capability. Sound quality with the bundled audio cable is ok. Would have been nice if they included the toslink cable or 3.5mm to RCA cable.

No issues. Works as expected. No more interruptions to music when you get a call

Forget Bluetooth. This is so much better. Uncompressed high quality sound that doesn't drop out. I downloaded Google's Play Now program on my PC, and it grabbed my entire iTunes library and loaded it up into Google's cloud. Now I've got access to all my music, plus tons of other music -- all at high bit-rate and uncompressed. Hookup and use are simple. My wife loves it (she never never used Bluetooth). When their multi-room software update comes out in a month or two, it's hard to see why anyone would choose a more expensive alternative. A true giant-killer product for 35 bucks.

Epic idea from Google and my favorite so far. Originally I thought these were bluetooth like all the other adapters out there and upon reviewing and seething that they were wifi, i bought 6 of them for $150 with the Black Friday Deal. I want to make this completely evident and clear for those of you out there who havent messed with wireless audio before, bluetooth audio aPTX or not, compresses and kills audio quality, There is no way around it 99% of the time and within reasonable budgets. Wifi speakers have essentially unlimited bandwidth and will not cut off your highs and lows. These little guys sound great and will stream all day without intervention from you. At the time I bought them they didnt have multiroom support, but that was fixed around Dec 15th. Setup/grouping of the speakers is incredibly easy, and it lets you adjust the audio delay of the individual CCAudios in the group to sync the music. Pros: 3.5mm or Optical Multiroom Price Saving old hifi recievers or speakers Stream from mobile/pc Doesnt kill your phones battery, your phone controls it, but after you start playing something you can turn your phone completely off to show it isnt using your phone (you dont have to). Wont blast your ringtone/text message tone over your speakers even if you don't have speakers already, you can get nice speakers for less than the price of a sonos play 1 or goto the thrift store and get some JBL/Altec Landsing speakers and pay 1/5 less overall! Guest mode to let people queue up music without you having to give your wifi password to everyone Cons: Doesnt like playing music stored on your phone, but can be fixed with a 3rd party app or by uploading your music to your google play library. up to 50,000 songs. No surround sound support yet (I wouldn't be surprised to see these pairing with your chromecasts in the future for wireless surround sound.)

I was wary of how useful the Chromecast Audio would be, considering how many other ways there are to transit music wirelessly in the home, but I am so pleased with this. What I really needed was a way to stream music through my beloved (but older) Marantz 2-channel receiver, which I use as my main audio system. I own a Roku 3, which only sends audio by HDMI, and I run a 1/8" jack from the TV to the receiver for movie sound. But if I want to listen to music, I need to keep the TV on, which is lame. I bought a Bluetooth speaker with an aux out, which I thought would be fine, except it requires a charger and Bluetooth audio is low quality and experiences annoying stuttering. The Chromecast solves all of my problems. It connects via wi-fi, offers high-quality sound, can be plugged into my receiver's switched outlet (only draws power when I turn the receiver on), and works so easily with the phone that it's by far the most convenient option. I've been streaming music from Spotify and Google Play, and it's so great. I'm really looking forward to getting a couple more and linking them for whole-house streaming. We've got lots of standalone speakers and small component systems that will now have new life because of Chromecast. Who needs a new home theater system with multi-zone speakers and all that junk?

The audio Chromecast is in a class by itself. I would give it 5 stars except for the fact it constantly consumes power if you don't go to the trouble to turn it off when not in use. One option--useful for some people but not all--is to plug the CC's USB power cable into a nearby device with a USB port that you can turn on when you want to use your CC. This is awkward at best. Otherwise you can plug it into a power strip with an on-off switch and use the switch. This is also a non-solution for many people. I'd guess that 99% of users leave their CC plugged in and consuming power most of the time. On the other hand there's a lot of good things I can say about the Google audio Chromecast: I have not yet used all the functions but what I have used has been without problems or need for a call to customer service. Works right out of the box, does what it says and does it well. Simple but useful for those who want their music portable and easily played through wifi. No wires to worry over (trip over). Especially for non-Bluetooth speakers this is a valuable tool. Using wifi, it makes BT unnecessary for making your audio truly portable around the house. With a bluetooth portable speaker you get much of the same functionality, but the big difference is that BT drains your phone/tablet battery faster than projecting the sound through your wifi network. Also there are no distance limits between source and receiver over wifi as there are with BT. You can be on the other end of the house in another room and control the Chromecast as easily as a BT which can only reach a little over 30 ft. Stereo is readily casted with CC but most BT speakers are strictly monaural. There are no doubt other advantages that audio CC offer but the above reasons are enough for me. These babies go on sale fairly often so wait until you can pick one up for $25, or if you're in a hurry the most you'll have to fork over is $35.

The Google Chromecast Audio device allows you to get high quality audio from your smartphone or tablet to any powered speaker or stereo system via built in wifi at a very reasonable price. Sound quality is much better than bluetooth, with a no brainer hookup procedure via the Chromecast App installed on your Android or iOS device. Highly recommended.

The Chromecast audio is easily the best device that has come out in years. Not only does it completely replace terrible bluetooth adaptors used to modernize old stereos, but a bunch of them can do Sonos's best trick for a tenth the price Sonos asks. I now have four of these devices all through my house. I can create a group on my phone via the app that includes all of them, and when I chose this group the music plays through them all at once in sync. The sound quality out of each (on everything from computer speakers to a nice AVR) is perfect, and if for some reason one isn't in sync you can adjust the delay. The end result is what millionaires pay people thousands of $ to wire their houses to do, or Sonos will sell you an overpriced speaker to do: whole home audio! There are a few quirks, and it doesn't work great with every app (I use it with Spotify), but for the price its the best device in years.

I use my Chromecast audio connected to a pair of speakers in my bathroom and they sound fantastic. Setting up is a breeze and is a great and convenient way to cast from my google nexus 6p and listen to music through spotify, Pandora, and Youtube. Highly recommended!

I've read a number of gadget blog whining that this may not be audiophile quality. I can't say, but I can say that it does what I need, which is play music on my home theater stereo without running the TV. I was a little surprised to find that it only plays music from streaming services and will not play files directly from your mobile device. To use Spotify you must be a paying subscriber. You can also use Google Music or Apple Music. I was pleased to discover this worked equally well with an iPhone as with an Android device.

I bought 2 of these for use with my current chromecast ver 1 to get audio streaming to 3 different audio systems on 3 different floors of my home. Now I can listen to the same audio on all 3 levels of my home or individually depending on my mood. Setup with the downloaded android app was simple and took only about 30 secs per device. Works and sounds great.