Both Google Home and Amazon Echo
offer multiroom audio functionality, including creating groups of speakers via your smartphone.
It only plays nice with iPhones, doesn't currently
offer multiroom audio support, and might stain your wood furniture (though, some say Sonos and Echo will too).
Not exact matches
The Sonos Play: 3 and Oppo Sonica both
offer much better
audio quality and
multiroom integration for the same cost (though with less volume capacity), and Klipsch
offers its well - regarded RW - 1 for $ 50 cheaper, which also supports Play - Fi
multiroom streaming to mix and match speakers from multiple brands.
Bang & Olufsen has announced its new BeoLink
Multiroom offering which aims to connect its products, for music that follows a user round the home.The idea behind the BeoLink
Multiroom is to turn older B&O products into a modern
audio solution akin to Sonos»... Read more
Other high - end
multiroom speakers worth considering include slightly more expensive options like the Bose Wave SoundTouch and the Bowers and Wilkins Zeppelin, both of which compete in terms of
audio quality and
offer flashier designs if that's your thing.
Not only does this mini
multiroom tower
offer room - filling stereophonic
audio and shockingly loud volume for its size, it also tacks on Bluetooth, splash - proofing, and an optional 20 - hour battery.
The idea behind the BeoLink
Multiroom is to turn older B&O products into a modern
audio solution akin to Sonos»
offerings.
Wi - Fi also
offers a superior
audio experience - for example, enabling
multiroom listening.