Ultimate guide to multi-room speakers

Multi-room speakers can take your home sound system to a whole new level. Whether you are looking to create studio audio in your office or cinema-like surround sound in your living room, multi-room speakers have you covered. These speakers are bound to elevate your household auditory experience to a whole new level. With help from the speaker experts over at Upbeat Geek, we’ve created an ultimate guide to multi-room speakers.

What are Multi-Room Speakers?

Multi-room speakers are pretty self-explanatory. There are numerous speakers which sync up into one sound system. You can blast tunes in more than one location around the house. Whether you’re having a gathering with friends or just dancing around the house alone (we won’t judge), they can accommodate all sorts of crowds!

How do Multi-Room Speakers Work?

They are usually operated using an app. When in control of the speakers, you can tweak settings, play completely different things simultaneously or adjust other speakers accordingly. 

All the best multi-room speakers use wifi which means that they will work efficiently in most households. They make use of recent technology - ‘decentralised controls’. Users can control devices from afar as long as they are connected to the same wifi. This type of control makes listening to music and using the speakers easy.

How do you set up Multi-Room Speakers?

The beauty of Multi-room speakers is their versatility; hook them up around the house for different Spotify listening sessions or use them all in one room to create perfect surround sound in your living room for the latest action blockbuster. 

When it comes to films and TV speakers, speakers vs soundbars has been a long-term debate, but with some multi-room speaker systems nowadays, you can combine them both to get the best of both worlds. 

Setting up multi-room speakers is easy:

1. Place speakers where you want them.
2. Download the app that goes with your system.
3. Open the app and follow the simple instructions on how to connect.
4. Bingo, you’re done in no time. 

Benefits of Multi-Room Speakers?

After rocketing in popularity, Multi-room speakers have made their way into loads of households across the world, but just what are their benefits?

Quick Setup and Easy to Control

It’s as simple as following instructions on the app! Simple to set up and even more straightforward to control. The app does it all for you, from choosing the music to picking which speaker to play from.

Completely Customisable

Not only can you choose different music on different speakers. You can also completely change the bass, treble and balance on each speaker for a unique experience in your house. Multi-room speakers don’t just link up to other speakers. They can link with TVs, phones, laptops, subwoofers and anything else that you can connect to your wifi. Super-versatile.

Things to consider before buying

Whilst these speakers are versatile, it also means you need to know what you are after before you buy. With loads of different types of features, including portability, voice activation and size, you will need to do your research of the market before choosing which speaker you are after.

It’s an upgrade, trust us.

These technological masterpieces have made speaker systems easy and revolutionised home surround sound systems. They can change your movie watching experiences or allow Fleetwood Mac to blast in one room and Bonobo in the following - ideal!