Help for New Entertainment Room

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BibisF

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Hi, I’m sorry if this is dumb or I am posting in the wrong place, but I am trying to set up a home audio system and don’t know where to start.

For a new entertainment room, we have:
*TV (Samsung Smart TV) with
*A sound bar with bass (Bose Soundtouch 300 and Acoustimass 300)
*4 speakers (Bose Virtually Invisible 791)
*2 speakers for the patio outside (Bose 251)
*A wireless router
Everything is brand new.

We want:
*To be able to watch TV and hear it through the sound bar, but sometimes also hear it through the speakers.
*Be able to listen to Spotify, anyone's iPhone, or any other music service we want.
*Control everything wirelessly, preferably through wifi and an app.
*Have the option to connect things through bluetooth
*Be able to select speakers (2 in bar area, 2 in living area and 2 outside on patio). Sometimes listen to the 4 inside, sometimes all 6 and sometimes only 2.

I have no idea what kind of amplifier to get (Audio or A/V). Basically I would like something that is as easy as a SONOS system, but don’t want to have to buy the sonos speakers since everything I just bought is brand new.

We also want to hook up a satellite system (DirecTV), a gaming console and maybe a computer. But I figure I can connect all those to the TV, which has many HDMI ports.

We have a similar setup in our living room, but we made the mistake of hooking it up to a Denon AVR-1912, which is great, but as it is a home theater receiver, we had a lot of trouble listening to music from TV (or any other source) on all speakers. It is somehow made for surround sound and we had to spend a lot of money on having someone come and set it up the way we wanted. There is still no way to select speakers.

I hope I explained myself correctly and that there exists an amplifier that does everything I need.
Thank you in advance for your help.
 
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The TV, video sources, and soundbar sub connect to each other.
For audio to get full control the best option is to use a Heos Amp for each pair of speakers. If you put one of the Heos amps near the TV and split the audio output of the TV you can feed it to the Heos too.
Sonos ConnectAmps would work too but dont have digital inputs so you would need a converter to get audio from the TV.
These offer easier set up and more developed apps than trying to put something together.
You can check out other options on parts-express.com
The TV, video sources, and soundbar sub connect to each other.
For audio to get full control the best option is to use a Heos Amp for each pair of speakers. If you put one of the Heos amps near the TV and split the audio output of the TV you can feed it to the Heos too.
Sonos ConnectAmps would work too but dont have digital inputs so you would need a converter to get audio from the TV.
These offer easier set up and more developed apps than trying to put something together.
You can check out other options on parts-express.com
 
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BibisF

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Thank you so much for answering. So there is no way to use only one amp for all this?
 
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