A company in the UK makes a product that claims to be the only option in the world, but they cost over $600 a pair. We are fairly entrenched in the Apple ecosystem at my house, and I wanted speakers that were AirPlay 2 compatible, so I could stream the same thing to multiple speakers throughout the house, or pick and choose.īased on my research, the options for ceiling speakers with AirPlay capability is quite limited. I took the credit on the purchase price and designed the system myself. Due to supply chain issues, he wasn't able to get the speakers he wanted, which turned out to be a good thing for me. In the upstairs, he also ran home-run wires to a closet for a more centralized system. He installed a power outlet with each pair, and ran high quality speaker wire between the openings. The builder did a fantastic job, and went so far as to wire nearly every room for ceiling speakers. Works great to AirPlay enable ceiling speakers! We recently moved into a newly constructed house. Wish some forward looking company would make something close to this product with a more accurate sound image. It has a lag between song switches due to a bit slow D/A converter but thats fine given the price level. Other than that it works like advertised, easy installation and then your iphone/spotify etc will find it. For the casual remote active loudspeakers user this does not matter, but if you expected something close to hifi (which airplay 2 is capable of) you'll be dissappointed. Not nerd level but appreciate when I can decide bass/loudness for myself. That destroys it a bit for me having capable equipment. I wish they had left at least the digital output more untouched. in this product meaning that sound output is like pressing any old-time loudness and increase base levels to (almost) max.

Wanted hifi product but destroyed by loudness war Airplay 2 comes with excellent audio capablities but unfortunately this device is infected by the loudness war, i.e.

Wifi to audio converter