It's supported by plenty of heavyweight hi-fi brands so you've no shortage of options including the Libratone Zipp 2, Audio Pro Addon C10 and Naim Mu-so Qb 2nd Generation. Instead, you now have to look to the excellent HomePod Mini.Īlternatively, you could consider a mix-and-match approach using AirPlay 2 speakers. And now that it has been discontinued, it's harder to find. A multi-room system built out of the Apple HomePod or HomePod Mini smart speakers is the obvious Sonos alternative here: it's easily the best-sounding speaker at its price (surpassing the Sonos One in audio performance) and Siri works with Apple Music beautifully.īut it's also expensive, and the HomePod doesn't natively support any music service - not even BBC radio stations - apart from Apple Music. Just don't expect as slick an app experience as found on Sonos.ĪirPlay 2 - Apple's proprietary streaming protocol - finally brought multi-room capability to its products.
Looking for another mix-and-match option? DTS Play-Fi is a third-party app that lets you link selected products from manufacturers such as Arcam, Klipsch, Martin Logan, McIntosh, Pioneer, Onkyo and Polk for multi-room streaming.
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Then simply press play on your iOS or Android device to 'cast' music to your connected products.
It means you don't need to stick to one brand to go multi-room you just need to have the compatible products (such as a Sony or Philips TV, Harman Kardon Citation Tower, LG WK7 or Sony STR-DN1080 amplifier) and make sure they're connected to the same network. But the real beauty of Chromecast is that it is also built-in to a vast range of other products, including Android devices, TVs, soundbars, AV receivers and wireless speakers, from a variety of manufacturers. Google has its own smart speakers, such as the Google Nest Audio and Nest Mini, which support multi-room music just like Sonos.