It definitely sounds good, but it cost twice the price of everything else put together so I’m not sure I’d buy it again. – Canton Musicbox Air – an expensive piece of kit I bought on a bit of a whim. Airfoil itself won’t run on Snow Leopard so this wasn’t an option for the server, but the Airfoil speaker app works fine. – A really old mac mini (which can only manage Snow Loepard) in the lounge is connected to my other stereo using the free Airfoil speakers app on OSX. – My main hifi (study) is plugged directly into the Macbook server through the audio jack. – The server runs Airfoil (I tried a number of others including Porthole for a while but Airfoil appears to be the most stable and functional). Wiring the server to the router had a big affect on the stability of the system. This is pretty important as it effectively halves your dependence on wireless which is inevitably flakey, particularly if you live in a built up area or use you microwave much. – The server is connected to the router via a homeplug. I use an old 2007 macbook pro, configured with NoSleep and power-saving disabled, so it keeps running when the lid’s closed. – Like Sonos, you need a media server to coordinate everything and it really needs to be physically wired to your router.
#AIRFOIL FOR MAC AIRPLAY SPEAKER CUTS IN AND OUT 2017 HOW TO#
The below describes the setup and how to get it all to play nicely: Two in the lounge and one in the kitchen, bathroom, study, wardrobe. I live in a flat (~150sqm) and have installed 6 linked speakers over five rooms. This actually took quite a bit of fiddling around to get right so this post covers where I’ve got to so far. This was largely because I wanted sound integrated sound in five rooms, wanted to reuse some of the kit I already had, didn’t want to fork out Sonos prices (Sonos quote was pushing £2k and I ended up spending about £100 on the core setup) and because I kinda liked the idea of building something rather than buying it in. I chose not to go down the Sonos route for the audio in my flat. Using Airplay as an alternative to Sonos for multi-room home audio
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