Whole home audio - wired or wireless?

I had a wired system many years ago with nice $1000 in ceiling speakers. Not surprisingly that is an awful place to put speakers unless you live horizontally a lot. I never put in a wired whole house audio again and used Sonos for a while.  Sonis which was a pretty big upgrade in terms of functionality and sound. But today there are tons of active speakers to choose from $30 to thousands. That’s what I do now where I want sound. I also learned I need good sound in many fewer rooms that is typical for whole house audio. A simple and cheap Bluetooth speaker fits many uses.

Be sure you like whatever interface your stuff uses. For just whole house audio type stuff that is IMO more important than the speaker fidelity. 

If you are considering Sonos be sure to read up the last few years of major mess ups and recent company layoffs. I moved away from them about 6 years ago when it was clear their software upgrades and expertise pretty underwhelming compared to other choices. They were great for a while on those fronts however. The whole S1 S2 fiasco was when I bailed but that was dwarfed but their mis-steps in the last 12 mos. Their software is very user friendly.