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[athegn]

48 minutes ago, bluesman said:

I agree that CCA is excellent through its optical out - I have them in several rooms at home.  But I thought the only possible network connection was WiFi.  How do you connect a CCA to an RJ45?

 

 

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[athegn]

Sorry I mean this:-

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01N1X28F1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[athegn]

Yes just plugged in and it worked. The reason I went for this adaptor is that this CCA drives my Sennheiser RS180 headphones which is positioned a long way from a WAP but near an Ethernet wall socket.

 

I also have an Onkyo TX8270 receiver with CCA in-built, to drive my speakers; the Onkyo is next to a network switch so that also has hard-wired ethernet.

 

My source for for both CCAs is my Andriod phone or tablet; normally an old 2.4Ghz tablet (I must admit that as this is so old I sometimes have to fiddle to get it to work e.g. power down the tablet then reboot, but most days it just works) but tonight my 5Ghz phone (phone always seems to work). Only the phone has an email client and I want to pass a YouTube live code to my browser and then to a CCA.

 

I just open up Google Home on the phone/tablet start the CCA and choose the media app. Media apps I use are BBC Sounds, PowerAmp, Qobuz and Chrome browser. I only use these so no idea how Roon, jRiver or others interact.