There are but two dials on the ONE Cast with which to control the unit one for source selection the other for volume.
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Worse are the manual controls on the front of the Cyrus, which are just terrible. The presence of Google Home or Amazon Alexa makes it possible to control some of the ONE Cast features with your voice, however if you’re not a Google or Alexa user, you’ll have to rely on the Cyrus’ remote or your smartphone, both of which are not ideal here. Without this access a lot of the ONE Cast’s performance and ease of use will be lost. The Cyrus ONE Cast relies heavily on the end user being a Google Home or Amazon Alexa user. While streaming to the Cyrus is easy enough through the aforementioned services, using the Cyrus both manually and with its remote is a real chore. However, it is in the streaming and the Cyrus’ overall usability where I think the designers expected the ONE Cast to shine, but came up short.
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Streaming music with the Cyrus ONE Cast via Bluetooth or AirPlay was simple, effective and given the right recording, virtually indistinguishable, sound-wise, from physical media. SHOP OUR RECOMMENDED SPEAKERS TO PAIR WITH THE CYRUS ONE CAST While I liked is bass and midrange performance, its high frequency rendering was a bit grainy through my Andover Audio PM-50 planar headphones. The headphone performance on the Cyrus was a little bit of a mixed bag. The internal DAC was also nice, though not as good as some we’ve had recently, but still a welcomed addition. It’s built-in MM phono stage is a nice addition and on par with many of our budget to mid-level phono preamps we had in house. Still, and on a whole, the ONE Cast is incredibly balanced top to bottom and for such a compact integrated amplifier design, it’s incredibly resolute and a capable performer. The midrange performance of the Cyrus is, again, natural and uncolored whereas its high frequency performance can come off as a little dry by comparison.
Bass is taut and firm, with great control throughout, even at lower volumes. It’s not a true window to the source, but it’s close enough that in most cases I doubt anyone would notice or claim the ONE Cast to be anything but neutral. The Cyrus’ sound is one that favors neutrality rather than personality or color. For our review, we tested the Cyrus with the Q Acoustics Concept 500 tower speakers, the Elac Debut Reference monitors and finally our reference Klipsch Heresy IV loudspeakers. In fact, every loudspeaker we paired with the ONE Cast sounded near to, if not its very best. In truth, getting the best sound from your speakers is an easy task for the ONE Cast. While some may have criticisms about its power or power output, rest assured the ONE Cast can deliver all the necessary power to drive even the most demanding tower loudspeakers. It’s a 100 Watt per channel hybrid Class D amplifier design is fantastic and among the best found in today’s growing crop of integrated amplifiers. In terms of sound the ONE Cast is excellent. GETTING THE BEST SOUND FROM YOUR SPEAKERS
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