Lounge Audio (Cinema/Music)

[jimmybell]

I'm an audio-idiot and wondering if i can get some general advice, i have a typical London Victorian terraced house with lounge in the front room.

My TV sits in the alcove to the right of the fireplace, with Sofas placed in the only place they can be - opposite the TV, and in the bay window.

Currently i have some chunky 80s B&O panel speakers (shown at 1 and 2) wired to a Denon power amp sat in the floating TV cabinet upon which the TV sits.

I have a few problems i'd like to solve:

• Hooking up the lounge with SONOS control as i have a SONOS Play:3 in the kitchen and would like to expand this. I think the options are either use Sonos speakers, or use a Connect in ~whatever system i get.
• Currently sound is sourced from the speakers only in (1) and (2), as tv speakers and amp are out of sync, so cant have both without an echo (and TV is tinny anyway.
• TV remote seems to not control volume to any of the TV's audio outputs (optical/component/3.5mm), and the amp doesn't have a remote.. so you wanna change volume? You have to walk to the tv cabinet.
• The shape of the room makes obvious front/rear locations difficult, as such i currently have neither front, nor rear... just .. sides! This sucks. Any system i install id prefer to have wireless rear/sides to avoid wires running around a wooden floor.

I expect the solution involves buying some sort of amp/pvr device, a sonos connect, and some sort of soundbar/wireless speakers. Based on the price of Sonos kit, i suspect by going for a Sonos Connect and non-sonos speakers i can get much more flexibility and VFM.

Hopefully this pic explains some of it:



any thoughts, comments or suggestions welcomed!