I’ve got speakers wired around the house to 8 stereo zones, and all speaker cables come out into the lounge.
I want to use Roon to have independent playback in each zone. And, to group 3-4 zones in party mode every now and again for synced playback.
I was originally considering a Sonos Connect Amp per zone and stacking them on top of each other in the control cupboard. But seems a bit expensive and Sonos playback doesn’t seem to slick with Roon.
Does anyone have any suggestions for RoonReady multi-room wired hardware?
You can use Raspberry Pi’s with Allo.comBoss DAC + Volt AMP HATS’s.
It will set you back about $125 per zone + power supplies.
Use RoPieee for maintenance free operation.
I seem to recall that someone in these forums built a multi-RPi+Amp HAT into an enclosure for just this purpose - powering multiple passive stereo speakers from a central point. A DIY job, but it looked very professional from the photos. Can’t find that thread at the moment - it was some time ago…