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I was thinking similar, re: speakers - having a satellite speaker with separate amp seems cheaper & better than having powered monitor speakers, particularly given that the difficult bit will be the power supply for either.
NotThamesWater-
Yep. I have my whole house wired up with speaker wires which terminates in the loft. Each room currently has a cheap pair of satellite speakers (around £30), and in the loft there is an amp (£20) and chrome cast (£20) per room, I have thrown a google home mini in each room to control the system, so full multi room for around £100 a room
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I've gone from internally amped monitor speakers with lots of ChromeCast Audios... to just having 1 stereo setup in the front room and then using Google Home Hub or Google Minis throughout that house.
They are far lower power in standby, and I noticed that I was either in the living room listening to music or really all I wanted was background music as I pottered around.
So I've opted for synchronised background music across the whole home which is adequate, and then really good speakers on the ChromeCast Audio in the living room.
It feels far more discreet as a system as the standalone monitors were quite visible everywhere.
Sam_w
Velocio
Sorry missed this... I am currently using Lepy 2024a, not the most powerful, but for running cheap speakers for music to have on whilst doing over things they are perfect. Chrome cast are powered separately as I am using Ethernet adapters as the chromecasts didn’t play nicely with my Wi-fi.