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. 

I use BlueSound devices and really like the setup.  My outdoor speakers are wired but driven by Nodes.  Living area is a pair of Puse 2i’s set up as stereo and the remainder are Pulse M’s in various rooms as well as the garages. 

I’m not likely to be drawn back to Sonos.  Seems like I had a similar experience to @jbs - constantly frustrated by glitches, lost/unfound devices, robo responses from Sonos "help," etc.  If I do pure wireless, it’ll be Bluesound.

I could have been a bit clearer about my intentions.  I have a dedicated hi-fi listening room and my MBR has a nice two-channel system as well.  Whole house audio for us would be mainly for background music during entertaining. 

@fastfreight thank you for the heads up about too many endpoints for Roon.  It kinda makes me think I want a hybrid system - same as I have in my other home.  I have an HTD MCA66, which powers six pair of in ceiling speakers, with a Bluesound Node as the primary input source.  I then have three other Nodes on traditional stereo setups and a pair of Pulse Flexes.  For entertaining, I just move between the HTD app (to control the six wired speaker zones) and the Bluesound or Roon app (to select the streaming content, and add other zones). 

So, for my purposes, Sonance 8" ceiling speakers (or possibly Klipsch) would do the job nicely.  I’m just kinda hoping I can avoid a guy (or myself) crawling into the attic and cutting holes in the drywall.