Airplay to "monoblock"?

[ChrisA]

I want to send music to a pair of passive speakers via Apple Airplay but the speakers can not by easily connected with wire. It would be far easier to put a mono amp near each speaker and then use wireless to each amp.

I know that Homepods can already do this. I'm looking for a few steps up in audio quality and power

 

[arw]

Obviously a single Airplay target would be preferrable but I can't think of a way to split the channels and wirelessly forward them to each of the two amps/speakers.
So at the top of my head, you are basically looking at a dual-room Airplay setup with each of the two "rooms" having only one channel wired to one amp/speaker?
I'm not sure if Airplay 2 can save that "room" setup or if you have to select both speakers/rooms everytime from scratch.
I bought two Airplay Express for cheap and can basically do what you seek if I select both Airports in iTunes (Airplay 1).
But I only use the Line-Out headphone jack. Do your amps have an optical input?
What will be the source? If it's a Mac, perhaps you can create a special Aggregate Device in Audio-MIDI-Setup.

 

[ChrisA]

Obviously a single Airplay target would be preferrable but I can't think of a way to split the channels and wirelessly forward them to each of the two amps/speakers.
So at the top of my head, you are basically looking at a dual-room Airplay setup with each of the two "rooms" having only one channel wired to one amp/speaker?
I'm not sure if Airplay 2 can save that "room" setup or if you have to select both speakers/rooms everytime from scratch.
I bought two Airplay Express for cheap and can basically do what you seek if I select both Airports in iTunes (Airplay 1).
But I only use the Line-Out headphone jack. Do your amps have an optical input?
What will be the source? If it's a Mac, perhaps you can create a special Aggregate Device in Audio-MIDI-Setup.

Thanks "Aggregate Device" looks like something I can Google.

But now I am thinking that the wireless "air gap" does not really need to be airplay. I can send the audio to any device that has line out then I need two singel channel radio links that feed two mono amps. I'm sure that people setting up a large home theator systerm have this issue too. It does not even need to be digital

 

[Ray2]

Pickup a couple of old Airplay 1 Airport Express units. Just use one side of the mini/optical out. My experience with whole house stereo is AirPlay 1 is way more stable than AirPlay 2.