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Advice/recommendations on wireless speaker system for 2 rooms, with cd functionality

  • 19-11-2021 2:20pm
    #1
    podgeandrodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,916 ✭✭✭


    Hi all

    Appreciate any advice on getting some wireless speakers for an elderly relative. But she has a cd player/hifi currently and would prefer to still be able to play those cd's (as well as access the likes of Spotify).

    I'm guessing that she could probably use her current rudimentary mini hi-fi for cd playing by hooking up to a wireless speaker with AUX 3.5mm in? But wouldn't want complicated changes of input if she just wanted to use Spotify at other times. Am also assuming, perhaps wrongly, that if she lined in to a wireless speaker like a Sonos or Bose, that the speaker could include that input and transmit to other wireless speakers on the network. (Bluetooth/Wifi - probably prefer wifi myself).

    It's 2 small rooms that aren't separated by a door, so it's just that she wants decent surround sound type quality music, rather than crappy sound out of a mini hifi.


    Any advice appreciated on solutions here - I was thinking perhaps 2 speakers in each room to have stereo, or to cover the room from 2 angles etc. Other question is that I am assuming a bluetooth enabled hi-fi, if I got one, is only to receive content from a phone etc., and won't transmit to wireless speakers.


    Thanks.



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  • #2
    reboot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭reboot


    I don't like Bluetooth, for a variety of reasons, and although not very fashionable anymore, I would suggest you consider wireless speakers and headphones that are RF, ( Radio Frequency)

    I find the range vastly superior, they are not expensive and for elderly folk they have tone adjustments.



  • #3
    podgeandrodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,916 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    I'm sorta settling on getting a few Sonos One's. In one room, on stands, a stereo pair of 2 speakers behind sofa, complemented by a single speaker facing the person on the couch - so one stereo set and one mono - from what I gather that might need 2 "rooms" set up, but having 2 stereo pairs in the one room would seem excessive.


    Then in the other room, used less, 1 stereo pair.

    So 5 Sonos One's altogether.


    Any thoughts appreciated on a set up like this. (Ignore original post, binning the hifi system, she can listen to spotify for her cd's).



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