Through which device to send 5.1 sound to active speakers?

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I have a multiroom in different rooms made on active speakers and I send music to them through Room Ready. I want to put 5.1 sound in the TV room, but so that I can use active speakers and an active subwoofer. What equipment is suitable for sending 5.1 sound to active speakers (without a wire), provided that it supports the stereo mode of Room Ready

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Welcome to the forum!

Do not quite understand your goal. Do you have 5.1 music files in your library which you want to play on a 5.1 surround sound system? Or which other surround source are you referring to?

Or you are planning to play 2 channel material using some kind of blowup routine?

Roon is capable of handling surround sound (5.1 or 7.1), but the number of hardware to do that wirelessly is not high.

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Not exactly.
I am installing a large house and making a multiroom on active speakers. When I approached the TV room, I thought while installing the active speakers, could they be used as a 5.1 cinema sound output? But I did not find any equipment that could feed them 5.1 sound over the air.

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That is surely possible, but I do not quite understand what the source is in this case. The TV (with HDMI-ARC output)?

Which active speakers do you use?

5

1.For now, none - I will buy. I need advice on what to buy.
2. ZUMA

6

1.At this point, nothing - I will buy. I need advice on what to buy.
2. ZUMA

7

Someone advises to use Apple TV, but it only works with AirPods and does not support third-party speakers, producing pseudo-stereophony

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From how I understand the specs, these are WiFi speakers not supporting any protocol which is allowing 5.1 sound or grouping single speakers to a 5.1 setup.

Even if they would, the key question is where the 5.1 source would be coming from. Roon does support 5.1 streaming from local storage (for example a NAS), but no hardware known to me offers HDMI-ARC input nor does the standard ´roon ready´ certification ensures 5.1 compatibility.

Most wireless protocols allowing 5.1 sound rely on compatible speakers, such as WISA.

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Yes, I was leaning towards VISA, but I had hope that I wouldn’t need to buy additional acoustics. I wanted to do with ZUMA.

So, there is no hope of finding anything that could deliver 5.1 sound to native speakers.

Thank you for saving me from a long search.