![]() It definitely sounds good, but it cost twice the price of everything else put together so I’m not sure I’d buy it again.– Two bargain basement, heavily reduced airplay units. The killer feature of doing it yourself is that airplay speakers are a few years old now and there are quite a few decent ones out there for around £50. IPhone into AirPlay speaker and listen to music that played on Mac, Airfoil from.I chose not to go down the Sonos route for the audio in my flat.I use a Philips Fidelio AD7000W which is nice and thin (it sits in a kitchen cupboard), has impressive sound for its size and only cost £40 on amazon marketplace (a second). This was largely because I wanted sound integrated sound in five rooms, wanted to reuse some of the kit I already had, didn’t want to fork out Sonos prices (Sonos quote was pushing £2k and I ended up spending about £100 on the core setup) and because I kinda liked the idea of building something rather than buying it in.This actually took quite a bit of fiddling around to get right so this post covers where I’ve got to so far.I live in a flat (~150sqm) and have installed 6 linked speakers over five rooms. ![]() Two in the lounge and one in the kitchen, bathroom, study, wardrobe.The below describes the setup and how to get it all to play nicely:– Like Sonos, you need a media server to coordinate everything and it really needs to be physically wired to your router. ![]() I use an old 2007 macbook pro, configured with NoSleep and power-saving disabled, so it keeps running when the lid’s closed.– The server is connected to the router via a homeplug. ![]() This is pretty important as it effectively halves your dependence on wireless which is inevitably flakey, particularly if you live in a built up area or use you microwave much. ![]()
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