Best Wireless Multiroom Speakers of 2024

Installing a multiroom audio system in your home used to be a daunting prospect. You’d have to spend thousands on speakers, amps, and keypads. And thousands more to hire technicians to snake wires through the walls, make the connections, and adjust the settings to get all of the gear working the way it should. But things have changed for the better.

Today you can buy a wireless multiroom speaker system with great performance and unprecedented flexibility—and no wires to snake—for surprisingly little money. Even better, you can set up the whole thing yourself in a matter of minutes, right from your smartphone.

Sonos has led the way when it comes to easy-to-install multiroom systems, but other companies have joined in, giving music lovers a variety of options. And if you own a smart speaker from one of the major brands—Amazon Echo, Apple HomePod, or Google Nest—you can add other models from that company’s line to form a multiroom system that can send voice-controlled music throughout your home.

The top-rated multiroom speakers in this roundup offer not only solid sound but also impressive flexibility. If your aim is to execute an epic Rickroll and play “Never Gonna Give You Up” perfectly synced through 16 speakers on four different levels of your house, your system is ready. If your goals are more modest—streaming the 99% Invisible podcast quietly in the kitchen while the kids crank “Encanto” in the family room, all controlled by your smartphone—that’s an easy option.

The following are some of the best multiroom speakers in CR’s ratings. Like everything we rate, from printers to pickup trucks, CR buys speakers anonymously through regular retail channels. Our trained testers put each model through a battery of lab tests for ease of use, versatility, and especially sound quality, which earns extra weight in our ratings. Note that the ratings system is slightly different for wireless speakers and smart speakers, so you can’t directly compare the scores.