Hello--I have a home with a 10 year old wired ceiling speaker system with about 7 different zones. All those zones are connected in the basement to one integrator--all the speaker wires go into that device. A main screen exists on a 1st floor wall where you can select which source you want to play in any room. For example, I can select “kitchen” then “ipod” (OMG) or “back deck” and “FM radio”. There is an AUX based docking station mounted in the wall there for a 1st Gen Ipod. (I imagine this was very hot in 2010) Because this system isn’t current, we end up either using FM Radio on it; or just using one of our four Alexa devices to play the music from a source we like (Pandora, Amazon Music, etc).
Note: also wired into that integration system is a DVD player, a BlueRay player, and what looks like a Serius/XM receiver--all sources for different zones that have either TVs or just ceiling speakers.
How do I use this existing system of wired speaker zones, to upgrade to something that is “smart”? Should we replace the “integration box” in the basement with a Sonos product that can integrate all those zoned speakers?
Thanks for any help.