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Guys,
First post, be gentle
Iāve been a devoted Sonos advocate for a very long time. With the latest debacle and their plans to be completely cloud integrate (functionality not music services)ā¦..they can get funkt!
I currently have around a dozen Sonos speakers, in various configurations, but am keen to ditch the lot in favour of a multi room solution that stays on my LAN.
Having had a dig around, it seems WiiM is the answer
Would really appreciate some advice. I have an extensive local library on my Plex server. Iāve read Plex is very close to integration and if Iām honest would like a setup that stays local, is not dependant on āthe cloudā, and will allow me to completely configure the platform on my LAN without internet interaction. Am I correct that the WiiM products do that??
If they do, Iām looking for recommendations for a multi room setup, purely music, not connected to TVās or anything (soundbars can take care of that).
I would like the ability to stream my local music in 3 or 4 rooms and group together should I need to. Would prefer the rooms to sonically match and am guessing that will be speaker dependant as opposed to the WiiM product suite. WiFi is strong throughput the house but each room has structured cabling and if I have the option for an Ethernet connection, Iād much prefer to take that approach over WIFI.
If starting from scratch, which I am effectively doing, would I go a WiiM amp with passive speakers or one of the other products with powered speakers??
Whatās the general consensus? I do want to keep to a budget, if I can get away with Ā£600(ish) per room, that would be great. Part of me is hoping I only need one component as a hub and the cheaper products as spokes. Is that correct or am I way off???
Iāve been reading as much as possible on these forums (have been lurking
) but now I want to pull the trigger.
Apologies for a crazy long post but wanted to give some background in the hope you can give me your experiences and recommendations.
Thanks in advance
First post, be gentle

Iāve been a devoted Sonos advocate for a very long time. With the latest debacle and their plans to be completely cloud integrate (functionality not music services)ā¦..they can get funkt!
I currently have around a dozen Sonos speakers, in various configurations, but am keen to ditch the lot in favour of a multi room solution that stays on my LAN.
Having had a dig around, it seems WiiM is the answer

Would really appreciate some advice. I have an extensive local library on my Plex server. Iāve read Plex is very close to integration and if Iām honest would like a setup that stays local, is not dependant on āthe cloudā, and will allow me to completely configure the platform on my LAN without internet interaction. Am I correct that the WiiM products do that??
If they do, Iām looking for recommendations for a multi room setup, purely music, not connected to TVās or anything (soundbars can take care of that).
I would like the ability to stream my local music in 3 or 4 rooms and group together should I need to. Would prefer the rooms to sonically match and am guessing that will be speaker dependant as opposed to the WiiM product suite. WiFi is strong throughput the house but each room has structured cabling and if I have the option for an Ethernet connection, Iād much prefer to take that approach over WIFI.
If starting from scratch, which I am effectively doing, would I go a WiiM amp with passive speakers or one of the other products with powered speakers??
Whatās the general consensus? I do want to keep to a budget, if I can get away with Ā£600(ish) per room, that would be great. Part of me is hoping I only need one component as a hub and the cheaper products as spokes. Is that correct or am I way off???
Iāve been reading as much as possible on these forums (have been lurking

Apologies for a crazy long post but wanted to give some background in the hope you can give me your experiences and recommendations.
Thanks in advance
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