mbee wrote:

Look at all Airplay 2 presentation out there : when anyone speaks about stereo pairing, it's only concerning HomePods!

Sonos is talking about it.  Not sure if they will do it out-of-band "alongside" AirPlay or if the feature is built-in to Airplay 2.  They have the capability, certainly:  For example, that's how the Sonos sub works wirelessly: The main speaker, e.g. a PlayBase or (new version) Play:5 gets the feed using the Sonos mesh (or WiFi) over 2.4GHz, and the sub gets its signal via some proprietary protocol over the 5GHz band, from the main speaker.  The same thing *could* be done by telling AirPlay that one Play:5 is taking the stereo signal, but playing only half and sending the other channel via 5GHz to the other speaker directly.  Not sure how they will actually do it, but they are talking about it.

I am currently using airports to feed my Beomaster 3000-2, Beomaster 7000 and Beocenter 2300.

As far as I now understand Airplay 2 - this will not support airports. I testet it with 11.4 and correctly it does now work. But it will however support Apple TV4.

I am therefore thinking of replacing the 3 airports with Apple tv4s and some hdmi audio extractors.

Is there a better way to this?

Do any of you have experience with a good hdmi audio extractor?

Beold wrote:

As far as I now understand Airplay 2 - this will not support airports. I testet it with 11.4 and correctly it does now work. But it will however support Apple TV4.

Could you clarify?  Does "correctly does now work" mean (typo) "does not work correctly", or (vocabulary) "does still work correctly"?  Tnx.

Edit: Apple's support page implies that AirPlay 2 is an add-on to AirPlay, and that everything you can do now to old AirPlay speakers, you will continue to be able to do.  I.e, your updated devices are backward-compatible with AirPlay 1 devices.  Supposedly.  The only difference is that you won't see the option to pair multiple speakers if they're on AirPlay 1.  Supposedly.

     https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208728

Sorry trackbeo. What I should have said is that it is not working. And you are correct. They can still play with airplay 1 functionality, but you can not play more than 1 device at the same time.

I am thinking to upgrade the 3 airports to Apple tv4s + Hdmi to analog converters.

My current Apple tv4 is now updated and seem to work fine with airplay 2. I however only have 1 of these, so I will start with testing it with 1 more.

I am however not sure how the sound quality will be with an Apple tv4 + hdmi to analog converter. I will test and report back.

@Beold : a bit more expensive, but allowing to have full B&O NL multiroom (and airplay in September), the BS Core may be a better solution for a B&O setup...

Beold - Do any of you have experience with a good hdmi audio extractor?

Hallo Beold. - Click her.  

Thanks mbee and Peter, 

I will look into the core also.

/Mike

Beold wrote:

I am currently using airports to feed my Beomaster 3000-2, Beomaster 7000 and Beocenter 2300.

Hi Mike,

I understand that you want to stream music from iDevices, eventually in a multiroom configuration, to your classic B&O equipments. If you're listening to the radio via TuneIn, the music via Deezer or Spotify or a Synology NAS, then several Google Chromecast Audio network players (not available in white ;-) may be a way cheaper solution...

Hi CB,

I actually have 2 chromecast audios, but think that the interface is not as good as the airplay functions on the i-devices. The wife and children also got confused about the way you have to find the chromecast functions inside spotyiy in one way and inside tunein anothey way etc. Plus that chromecast audio does not work with youtube.

I like the way thay airplay just plays everything on the i-device in the same way. Simple and intuitive.

I have now purchesed another Apple tv4 and are placing and order for a hdmi converter.