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That's what we use for sending itunes to our stereo. We have sets of (wired) speakers in the kitchen and living room (small house, 70sm or so).
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I looked at it but (for me) it was more or less redundant as I already had a NAS set up. That meant I could support multiple DLNA clients both inside the house and also whilst on the move.
I imagine you could also look at upgrading your router - for under £100 you can have a wifi router with a USB 3.0 port that can share your files across the network.
Apple really f*cked it up removing the optical out on the ATV4; personally I'm pretty sick of their strategy of locking out the interesting hacks you can do with some of their kit for no reason other than to flog you an overpriced and under-specced consumer product. I'm looking at you, HomePod.
CCA's are good value if you want cheap multi-room audio.
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Why not a raspberry pi with an optical out hat? About £50 for that.
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Has anyone used an Airport Express to transport audio? It looks like a good solution as I can attach a hard drive and send audio to a dac by toslink for my secondary system. Trouble is its already discontinued but it has recently had a firmware update to enable Airplay 2. I think Apple TV would do the same and is current, but it doesn't allow for attaching an external SSD and neither does my router without a NAS device.