All I wanted was affordable multiroom audio. Instead, I got an ordeal. | Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge
About a year or so ago, I decided to network all my speakers together to be able to do multiroom audio. I gave myself a set of simple parameters. Namely:
- It must be able to work with my own speakers.
- It must be able to work synchronized in multiple rooms.
- It should be relatively affordable.
- It should be easy for house guests to understand.
- It should not lock me exclusively into a proprietary system.
- It should allow me to listen to a podcast or music in m...
