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is there one?
just wondering if there is a budget option to run a pair of speakers in my kitchen from my stereo in my living room the other side of the (granite) house.
i'm not looking for audiophile sound, 'ok' is ok, but anything is better than turning up my ditton 44 and listening to records through three doorways and two halls.
i had though of pulling up floorboards and doing a cheap and long speaker cable run but thats a bit drastic, as is spending millions on sonos or somesuch.
also a stereo in the kitchen is out as the wife does not want one, which is totally unreasonable i think but there you go!
Pretty sure there are "casting" boxes that send over standard network so just one of those and some powerline ethernet plugs.
How distant?
New wife.
Could be tricky depending on what your wife classes as a 'stereo'.
Do you get WiFi in the kitchen?
Have you got a location near a power socket?
Sounds like you are looking to link the stereo rather than a stand alone unit?
If you have WiFi (or could fit something like a powerline extender), some active speaker(s) to suit the space/limitations and a Chromecast Audio could do the trick.
Add another Chromecast Audio to your other stereo and you have multiroom, similar to Sonos, for £60.
It's slightly convoluted though and could mean 3 plugs (speakers, Chromecast, powerline), which might start to make a simple all in 1 streamer appealing?
RaspberryPi running Kodi and the Pi AMP?
Couldn't steam from your record player though, would have to be a networked source.
Actually, I think the Pi can run some open source multi-room software based on the Logitech stuff which would be a bit simpler. Still not sure how you would capture the record player output though.