Hi all! New member here, who’ve benefitted much and really appreciate the sharing of knowledge and opinions within this forum in the few short years I’ve been in this hobby. As with many of us at different points of our journey, I need help with where I’m at now, that being adding multiroom capability and integration to my system, which drove me to finally join as a member and seek help.
As stated, I’m planning to add multiroom audio to my setup, which currently is a home theatre 5.1 possibly expanding with height speakers in the future. This is driven with an Arcam AVR10 AV receiver. Sources are an Android tv streaming box, cd/dvd player, with future plans to add music streamer & server, with files being served from a NAS.
The current plan is to have audio streamed to a maximum of two other locations/rooms, besides the main setup location.
Things that are a must have, or non-negotiables, are :
1) The device receiving and outputting the multiroom audio stream must be fully portable e.g. multiroom wireless speakers that are battery powered without needing any fixed power source or connected with any cables. Something relatively small would be sufficient, enough to fill a small room
2) The control/streaming app must be user friendly, easy to use by older folks
3) Must be able to stream different sources/different music to different rooms simultaneously
4) Must have the flexibility to connect to the different sources, especially streaming services and own music collection stored on NAS
Negotiables, or less important but good to have :
1) Excellent sound quality (good is good enough)
2) Future expandability
These are I guess fairly simple deciding factors. Looking forward to suggestions of devices and/or its accompanying speakers that best fulfils the requirements above, and how those devices fit in to the chain of equipment. Open to any brand, but would like to keep the cost to below $800 for everything. Thanks a bunch!