I've got a relatively large (single) space that has several "zones" in it: a television area, a desk/workstation area, etc. - each with a small speaker setup. I've recently bought a pair of gold phantoms to supply sound to the overall space, but I'm finding that if I'm stationary in a particular area, listening through the speakers local to that area usually sounds better than the phantoms, which may be all the way on the other side of the space. So now I'm thinking about how to integrate the phantoms as part of a global solution that lets me route audio to whatever speakers I choose at a given time. Two questions immediately come to mind:
1. Is it even possible to use the phantoms simultaneously with other speakers in the same space? The Dialog introduces some significant lag (I've tried it), and seems to be required in order to get stereo output from a pair of phantoms. The only workaround I've found is somehow getting two single-channel toslink outputs, and running one to each phantom directly... But another thread suggested that the phantoms themselves have internal DSP that introduces lag.
2. Assuming there's some workaround to #1, what's the best non-wired solution for delivering audio from a small set of sources to an arbitrary set of endpoints, that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, and doesn't tie me to some clunky-ass application (I'm looking at you, Spark). Chromecast Audio, Sonos, AirPlay (I don't own any Apple devices currently), some other thing? fyi - all of my sources are computers: a linux media server, a linux t.v. box, a windows workstation, a windows laptop.
1. Is it even possible to use the phantoms simultaneously with other speakers in the same space? The Dialog introduces some significant lag (I've tried it), and seems to be required in order to get stereo output from a pair of phantoms. The only workaround I've found is somehow getting two single-channel toslink outputs, and running one to each phantom directly... But another thread suggested that the phantoms themselves have internal DSP that introduces lag.
2. Assuming there's some workaround to #1, what's the best non-wired solution for delivering audio from a small set of sources to an arbitrary set of endpoints, that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, and doesn't tie me to some clunky-ass application (I'm looking at you, Spark). Chromecast Audio, Sonos, AirPlay (I don't own any Apple devices currently), some other thing? fyi - all of my sources are computers: a linux media server, a linux t.v. box, a windows workstation, a windows laptop.
