Silly? Justified? Maybe worth it?
Good morning, I recently got a Denon receiver so I can have two things in my home office: a) surround sound and b) hdmi switching and pass-through. I have a receiver and two tower speakers hooked up right now, but I have bookshelf and center channel speakers just hanging around, and there's already a smart board/tv. So it seems like a reasonable thing, sort of. This means, for a house of 1 occupant, I'll have two surround sound setups. The downstairs one is driven by: a) chromecast (the new one, with the remote, which WON'T JOIN A SPEAKER GROUP BECAUSE GOOGLE LOST A SUIT TO SONOS). This seems kind of laggy/underpowered, compared with the xbox at least. b) chromecast, the old one, so I can still make a speaker group. Annoying. c) xbox (out of service until I get a new controller - I dropped mine and it won't stop scrolling now. Annoying). It is all sent to a pioneer receiver, which drives b&w speakers - two towers, a center, and two rear/bookshelf speakers