Multi-room music streaming has been mainstream for a while now, thanks to the likes of Sonos, but music streaming that’s affordable and marries up to your existing setup is only a recent thing – mainly because of Google’s dinky Chromecast Audio dongle and to an extent the Amazon Echo Dot.
The success of these devices has spurred many a company into making their own streaming add-on. The latest is the Yamaha WXAD-10, nicknamed the MusicCast ADD.
This streaming adapter is Yamaha’s way to get its MusicCast streaming service into your home and turn any ‘dumb’ wired speaker into a fully fit smart system.
It also has in its bag a fantastic, if quirky, USP: the MusicCast Add can turn Yamaha pianos into fully fledged streaming speakers.
So, if you just so happen to have a Yamaha Clavinova lying around in your two-bed semi, then simply attach MusicCast to the thing and you have a piano with some fantastic audio smarts.
Design and features
The Yamaha WXAD-10 is, for Yamaha, a mainstream device. It’s the company’s way of spreading out its MusicCast service to more devices – something it’s been trying hard to do since MusicCast’s launch in 2015.
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Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac