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Instead, they require a receiver or amplifier to pull electricity from your wall and power them.Īctive speakers can plug directly into the Chromecast (or any other sound source, like your iPhone or a CD player) and they will amplify the sound. If your speakers only have speaker wire terminals on the back, they are likely passive, which means they don’t have an internal power source. What makes a speaker proper for our purposes? Speakers can be broadly classified into two categories, active and passive, based on a simple distinction. If your speakers have their own power source (be it from wall current or batteries), they are active speakers. This guide generally assumes you already have some speakers lying around (since speaker recommendations would be a whole article unto itself), but there are a few things to keep in mind as you prepare them for the Chromecast. This guide may be about the Chromecast, but without proper speakers hooked up to it, you’ve got nothing. If you go into the experience with the same level of knowledge and preparation, you too can roll out your audio system in a matter of minutes. Putting aside how easy the Chromecast system is to use, the reason we could so easily set up the system was because we knew exactly what we needed and we could easily plug the Chromecast Audio in and get rolling in a matter of seconds at each speaker location. Even pausing to take screenshots along the way, the total time was under five minutes.

When writing this tutorial, we timed how long it took us to go from no-house audio to whole-house audio. Let’s take a look at exactly what you need and then we’ll turn our attention to setting up the actual Chromecast Audio and creating a whole-house network. For $35 a pop (and often on sale for $30), you can quickly outfit your home, top to bottom, with a system that’s as dead simple to use as Google’s popular Chromecast streaming video solution. But for people who are a little more cost conscious, don’t need the extra features, and have plenty of speakers on hand they can use for the task, there’s a much cheaper and easier solution: the Google Chromecast Audio. Sonos has its own line of high quality wireless speakers.

Apple’s AirPort has other features, like network extension, for example. That’s great if you can afford it and the solution offers something you want.