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<blockquote data-quote="IvanLasston" data-source="post: 1483465" data-attributes="member: 145676"><p>I have Apple Airport Expresses and Apple TVs peppered around my house. I have sent music to multiple speakers - but they are in different rooms. They sounded more or less in sync - but I am not sure why you are asking the question - unless you had multiple Airplay devices in the same room - why would it matter? I don't understand how rooms 1 and 2 would affect each other in your example?</p><p></p><p>That being said - your example does not work. iOS AFAIK cannot do the multi-stream you are talking about. iTunes on a computer can output to multiple outputs - but the same song for 1 computer. </p><p>FTA</p><p></p><p></p><p>But if you had 4 iOS devices - you could stream 4 different audio from each iOS device. Or as stated - from iTunes on your computer - you could stream - so for your senario where you have 4 rooms with 2 playing the same song - you would need 2 computers.</p><p></p><p>The output of the Airport Express is either analog or digital - so you could hook it to an amp, or powered speakers directly. My 3 Apple TVs connect to 3 home theatre systems. My Expresses hook to an old bookshelf type system through analog, a powered mini speaker, and powered outdoor speakers - so only one Express hooks into an amp.</p><p></p><p>My current opinion - is if you are looking to distribute media throughout your house the better purchase is an Apple TV. If you need analog audio - or are only looking for audio distribution or don't have a TV where your speakers are - then the Express is a good option - it just doesn't have anything for media other than audio - but the Apple TV doesn't have Analog Audio out.</p><p></p><p>I am quite happy with the Apple kit - but it ties me into the whole ecosystem - which may not be what people want. Especially if you don't have a lot of Apple products. It seems to me Sonos has more options such as Android apps so it is something to think about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IvanLasston, post: 1483465, member: 145676"] I have Apple Airport Expresses and Apple TVs peppered around my house. I have sent music to multiple speakers - but they are in different rooms. They sounded more or less in sync - but I am not sure why you are asking the question - unless you had multiple Airplay devices in the same room - why would it matter? I don't understand how rooms 1 and 2 would affect each other in your example? That being said - your example does not work. iOS AFAIK cannot do the multi-stream you are talking about. iTunes on a computer can output to multiple outputs - but the same song for 1 computer. FTA But if you had 4 iOS devices - you could stream 4 different audio from each iOS device. Or as stated - from iTunes on your computer - you could stream - so for your senario where you have 4 rooms with 2 playing the same song - you would need 2 computers. The output of the Airport Express is either analog or digital - so you could hook it to an amp, or powered speakers directly. My 3 Apple TVs connect to 3 home theatre systems. My Expresses hook to an old bookshelf type system through analog, a powered mini speaker, and powered outdoor speakers - so only one Express hooks into an amp. My current opinion - is if you are looking to distribute media throughout your house the better purchase is an Apple TV. If you need analog audio - or are only looking for audio distribution or don't have a TV where your speakers are - then the Express is a good option - it just doesn't have anything for media other than audio - but the Apple TV doesn't have Analog Audio out. I am quite happy with the Apple kit - but it ties me into the whole ecosystem - which may not be what people want. Especially if you don't have a lot of Apple products. It seems to me Sonos has more options such as Android apps so it is something to think about. [/QUOTE]
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