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I hope you aren’t saying when you bought your home, the previous homeowner took the in wall/ceiling speakers out and left you with holes where they had been installed.

On to the question. If you’ve already got it wired, why not just go for it? You don’t need super high end components to get far superior sound to a few shitty Alexas around the house.

I really enjoy listening to music throughout the house and outside by the pool. When I renovated a few years back I opted to go wired and use 2 Yamaha receivers with MusicCast to customize my listening zones. I like Sonos, but the wired option gave me more bang for the buck. I find my wired set up quite flexible, and would go wired again if I had it to do over tomorrow.

If I could change one thing, I’d have moved the zone 2 and subwoofer amps into a media closet on a trigger from the living room receiver. I probably will do it at some point; it just hasn’t bothered me enough to do it yet.

You can have a cleaner built-in look vs the little Alexas all over the place. With an appropriate system you could incorporate TV audio as surround sound or all over the house.

Another vote for Sonos. I just took all the junk the previous owner installed and went up to the 8” Sonos speakers and it’s been great.

Agree with what jennyjones said above.

The cost to patch up and repaint the holes where the speakers were located is greater than the cost to buy and install new speakers.

Forget about being a snob, because you clearly aren't one, and go ahead and buy high quality speakers in a price range you are comfortable with, then connect it to a good receiver with multi-zones and alexa-compatibility.

Then you control it easily with an app on your phone.