Alexa wireless speakers throughout house

What about amazon echo?

Great. Now the NSA can pick you up wherever you are at home.

Surround sound or whole house audio? If whole house audio, you can set up different speaker groups to include certain echos and play music to those groups from the Alexa app.

I use it as a wired setup though. I have the echoes in my house in a couple places and connect them to the amp linked below with in ceiling speakers. I also have my tv audio run to it. Wiring between amp and echo/tv is over cat6 cable. The amp isn’t cheap but it has worked well so far. I’ve had it for a year and been really happy with it.

HTD Amp

I don't think you know what surround sound is.

Amazon echo already does this. My Yamaha sound bar has alexa also. I can cast to all of them or whichever I want.

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really is nice.

my best friend's daughter is getting married this year and asked to have the rehearsal dinner at our house and one of the questions was music. i told her all she has to do is built her playlist in her whatever app she uses (except YT music ) then when she arrives, just connect to my WiFi and voila, the entire house is filled with music. no logins, not bullshite app installs, no fumbling around with BT crap..it takes all of 2 seconds.

sonos is the easiest way to listen to music ever invented.

(obligatory "frick google" goes here)

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Not quite in the purview of this thread, but my father in law just moved and the house has “whole home” installed speakers in 6 or 7 rooms with wall volume controls in each room. It’s currently set up as a powered zone 2 from his receiver.
He’s not the best with tech, and I personally find most Zone 2 controls to sort of suck. He likes Appletv and uses them in his two or three tv watching areas around the house.
I have a Sonos Amp for my outdoors speakers and learned that an Appletv can stream to a Sonos amp. So I decided to see how a single amp would sound through the splitter and just let him use wall control.
Sound quality is not significantly different than through the powered zone 2. It’s plenty loud. And the ease of flipping between audio from stuff on the Sonos app to just having whatever is on TV streamed throughout the house is within comprehension for he and my mother in law.
Their cable provider now is purely streaming (no boxes)
So I was able to simplify his setup down to a receiver (5.1 in ceiling in the living room), an Appletv, and a Sonos amp. He actually wants me to put his Harmony remote back with this instead of just the Apple remote, but I am amazed how in the last ten years multi-zone a/v has changed and how well a Sonos Amp through an impedance-matching zone selector works for houses than have this setup.