Hi - I'm interested in setting up a flexible (e.g. least amount of vendor tie-in), voice controlled (pref Google), high-end (separate amp, quality speakers) multi-room streaming setup to support say, 6-8 rooms. It seems to me the criteria are:
Quality Speakers - pick your own, to taste, I'm looking at KEF R3s in a couple rooms, standard in-wall speakers in others
Quality Amp - very few interesting high-end distribution amps, Rotel, NAD & the multichannel-focused Russound, Niles, Sonance, Dayton, etc.
Quality DAC - I cannot seem to find any multi-input multi-output devices, essentially 6-8 DACs in a 1u box, etc.
Streaming endpoints - either a whole bag of old Chromecast Audios s or Airport Expresses or a bunch of single-channel streamers w/built-in DACs
I'm less interested in some of the more typical options for the following reasons:
Sonos - dac/amp/endpoint tie in, wonky Google voice support
Bluesound - dac seems low end, really wonky Google voice support
HEOS - meh
Roon - PC required, lack of mainstream music (e.g. Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Google) service integration
Am I thinking about this setup all wrong?
Quality Speakers - pick your own, to taste, I'm looking at KEF R3s in a couple rooms, standard in-wall speakers in others
Quality Amp - very few interesting high-end distribution amps, Rotel, NAD & the multichannel-focused Russound, Niles, Sonance, Dayton, etc.
Quality DAC - I cannot seem to find any multi-input multi-output devices, essentially 6-8 DACs in a 1u box, etc.
Streaming endpoints - either a whole bag of old Chromecast Audios s or Airport Expresses or a bunch of single-channel streamers w/built-in DACs
I'm less interested in some of the more typical options for the following reasons:
Sonos - dac/amp/endpoint tie in, wonky Google voice support
Bluesound - dac seems low end, really wonky Google voice support
HEOS - meh
Roon - PC required, lack of mainstream music (e.g. Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Google) service integration
Am I thinking about this setup all wrong?
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