Marshall Heddon Hub Adds Multi‑Room Audio to Existing Speakers with Auracast

Marshall plans to add seamless multi-room audio to its Bluetooth speakers via a newly announced music streaming hub called Heddon. The $300 hub makes it possible to connect and synchronize multiple older Marshall speakers together, not unlike Sonos’ audio devices.

Rather than use Wi-Fi to get multiple speakers playing the same audio, though, the Marshall heddon uses Auracast.The hub connects to services like Spotify Connect or Tidal over Wi-Fi, or other devices through Google Cast and airplay, and then shares that audio over Auracast to the