Hi. Looking to upgrade my music situation. I currently play music either on a record player (vinyl) with some old wireless unconnectable stereo (only 3.5 mm jack) which produces a suprisingly nice sound.

Or digital, phone scrolling jellyfin or playing internet radio and such playing on a basic portable bluetooth speaker (JBL Go 2) connected to the phone. It’s very mobile and i take it to whichever room i want to listen to music, but it’s also rather low sound quality compared to the stereo and i’m getting annoyed always having to plug it in to charge it.

I’m looking into more solid options like a Bose Soundtouch, a Sonos, an Ikea Symfonisk, etc. Better sound, still affordable price range (< 200 €). No google, no alexa. Rather no this-speakers-proprietary-app is needed to set it up either.

Things I want:

• higher sound quality (in stereo) (that shouldn’t be hard to find :)
• If with mic built in: relative certainty that no corp gets access (no sending data over the internet to their own servers) or physical kill switch for mic (i’m not planning on using voice activated home assist)
• plugs in to wall outlet, no recharging.
• can integrate with Home assistant (don’t run it yet, but want to experiment) and then mainly be able to go in low-power standby mode and be woken by home assistant

Things that would be fun, but not super-important

• also be permanently connected to the dumb TV (it has a 3.5 mm out)
• if i buy multiple: connect to each other, play on multiple speakers simultaniously

Which speakers do you suggest? What are the best price-quality-nodatagrabbing deals out there atm?