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Alexa wireless speakers throughout house
Posted on 1/20/21 at 4:47 pm
Posted on 1/20/21 at 4:47 pm
Anyone have any recommendations on wireless speakers that will give me surroundsound in my house that works with Alexa. I would like for all speakers to play the same music at the same time in sync
Posted on 1/20/21 at 5:45 pm to Remedy83
Great. Now the NSA can pick you up wherever you are at home.
Posted on 1/20/21 at 6:02 pm to Remedy83
I have a few echo dots, an echo studio and an echo show that can all play the same music throughout the house with Alexa. This cheap/dirty way works just fine.
I posed this question in a different thread last week. Is there an A/V receiver that will utilize those echo devices to play music? Sort of what HEOS does for Denon wireless speakers.
I posed this question in a different thread last week. Is there an A/V receiver that will utilize those echo devices to play music? Sort of what HEOS does for Denon wireless speakers.
Posted on 1/20/21 at 6:20 pm to Remedy83
Surround sound or whole house audio? If whole house audio, you can set up different speaker groups to include certain echos and play music to those groups from the Alexa app.
I use it as a wired setup though. I have the echoes in my house in a couple places and connect them to the amp linked below with in ceiling speakers. I also have my tv audio run to it. Wiring between amp and echo/tv is over cat6 cable. The amp isn’t cheap but it has worked well so far. I’ve had it for a year and been really happy with it.
HTD Amp
I use it as a wired setup though. I have the echoes in my house in a couple places and connect them to the amp linked below with in ceiling speakers. I also have my tv audio run to it. Wiring between amp and echo/tv is over cat6 cable. The amp isn’t cheap but it has worked well so far. I’ve had it for a year and been really happy with it.
HTD Amp
Posted on 1/20/21 at 8:02 pm to Remedy83
I don't think you know what surround sound is.
Posted on 1/20/21 at 8:18 pm to TigerWise
Proceed with caution, nothing compares to sonos.....
For the tv playbar $700, sub $700....
Play 1's for surround & music through the house & theyre elexa enabled....
Or step up to play 5's!
Costly but worth it!
Sonos set-up app has settings & your tv speaker will sync with your various other speakers through the house when you play music so your tv sonos speakers are part of your stereo / music player....
Ive spent lots of money on hi-end a/v surround sound gear, receivers, speakers, subs.
Will never go back & a huge added bonus is to never deal with spaghetti again....
Sound performance will blow away any "echo dot" that was mentioned.
Go play with them at your local bestbuy..
Look for openbox deals, ebay, etc...
Sometimes costco has a deal.
For the tv playbar $700, sub $700....
Play 1's for surround & music through the house & theyre elexa enabled....
Or step up to play 5's!
Costly but worth it!
Sonos set-up app has settings & your tv speaker will sync with your various other speakers through the house when you play music so your tv sonos speakers are part of your stereo / music player....
Ive spent lots of money on hi-end a/v surround sound gear, receivers, speakers, subs.
Will never go back & a huge added bonus is to never deal with spaghetti again....
Sound performance will blow away any "echo dot" that was mentioned.
Go play with them at your local bestbuy..
Look for openbox deals, ebay, etc...
Sometimes costco has a deal.
This post was edited on 1/20/21 at 8:25 pm
Posted on 1/20/21 at 8:58 pm to Remedy83
Amazon echo already does this. My Yamaha sound bar has alexa also. I can cast to all of them or whichever I want.
Posted on 1/21/21 at 10:22 am to slater
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Ive spent lots of money on hi-end a/v surround sound gear, receivers, speakers, subs.
Will never go back & a huge added bonus is to never deal with spaghetti again....
Sound performance will blow away any "echo dot" that was mentioned.
really is nice.
my best friend's daughter is getting married this year and asked to have the rehearsal dinner at our house and one of the questions was music. i told her all she has to do is built her playlist in her whatever app she uses (except YT music

sonos is the easiest way to listen to music ever invented.
(obligatory "frick google" goes here)
This post was edited on 1/21/21 at 10:25 am
Posted on 1/21/21 at 11:54 am to Remedy83
Sonos is way better.
I just got rid of all my Echos. Privacy as well, but Sonos quality is far superior.
I just got rid of all my Echos. Privacy as well, but Sonos quality is far superior.
Posted on 1/21/21 at 12:38 pm to CAD703X
quote:
really is nice.
my best friend's daughter is getting married this year and asked to have the rehearsal dinner at our house and one of the questions was music. i told her all she has to do is built her playlist in her whatever app she uses (except YT music ) then when she arrives, just connect to my WiFi and voila, the entire house is filled with music. no logins, not bullshite app installs, no fumbling around with BT crap..it takes all of 2 seconds.
sonos is the easiest way to listen to music ever invented.
(obligatory "frick google" goes here)
Not quite in the purview of this thread, but my father in law just moved and the house has “whole home” installed speakers in 6 or 7 rooms with wall volume controls in each room. It’s currently set up as a powered zone 2 from his receiver.
He’s not the best with tech, and I personally find most Zone 2 controls to sort of suck. He likes Appletv and uses them in his two or three tv watching areas around the house.
I have a Sonos Amp for my outdoors speakers and learned that an Appletv can stream to a Sonos amp. So I decided to see how a single amp would sound through the splitter and just let him use wall control.
Sound quality is not significantly different than through the powered zone 2. It’s plenty loud. And the ease of flipping between audio from stuff on the Sonos app to just having whatever is on TV streamed throughout the house is within comprehension for he and my mother in law.
Their cable provider now is purely streaming (no boxes)
So I was able to simplify his setup down to a receiver (5.1 in ceiling in the living room), an Appletv, and a Sonos amp. He actually wants me to put his Harmony remote back with this instead of just the Apple remote, but I am amazed how in the last ten years multi-zone a/v has changed and how well a Sonos Amp through an impedance-matching zone selector works for houses than have this setup.
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