I'm not a big fan of the fidelity of wireless speakers either. For our setup, I have Squeezebox Duets that handle the tunes wirelessly. I have two Squeezebox receivers, one that handles sound inside and one for outside (in the pool house). This comes with a remote that can control both inside and outside receivers, and they can sync up, which is nice. With this setup, I can listen to my iTunes library (my computer needs to be on to do this), or listen to internet radio like Pandora. I think similar things can be done with the Apple TV box.
For set up, the Squeezebox receiver connects wirelessly to our home WiFi. The Squeezebox feeds audio into a separate stereo receiver in the pool house, and we have two sets of speakers in the back yard, one set near the house and one set hanging off the eaves of the pool house. Overall, the system works quite well, but was a little pricey to implement. If I were to do this on a budget, I would probably get either a roku box or the Apple TV box and use a separate stereo receiver (I seem to have plenty of these since upgrading the one in our home theater setup to 7.1 channel!), and then power the speakers this way.
The cheapest way to do this, but most time consuming, is running speaker level output from a main entertainment system to outside. It is doable, but it lacks control over volume and content. It is possible to add stereo level controls (see outdoorspeakerdepot.com for more details), but this will not give control over what is being played.
For set up, the Squeezebox receiver connects wirelessly to our home WiFi. The Squeezebox feeds audio into a separate stereo receiver in the pool house, and we have two sets of speakers in the back yard, one set near the house and one set hanging off the eaves of the pool house. Overall, the system works quite well, but was a little pricey to implement. If I were to do this on a budget, I would probably get either a roku box or the Apple TV box and use a separate stereo receiver (I seem to have plenty of these since upgrading the one in our home theater setup to 7.1 channel!), and then power the speakers this way.
The cheapest way to do this, but most time consuming, is running speaker level output from a main entertainment system to outside. It is doable, but it lacks control over volume and content. It is possible to add stereo level controls (see outdoorspeakerdepot.com for more details), but this will not give control over what is being played.
