I have not personally listened to that speaker, so I can't speak to its quality, but in general, if you're in Canada, the cheapest / best audiophile setup you can usually get is one of dedicated speakers / amps hard wired together.
You would basically have a Bluetooth / Castable DAC, hooked up to an RCA splitter, then RCA wires running to each room, where a dedicated amp would be hooked up to speakers / subwoofers.
If you need wireless multiroom, then you might want to look at WiiMs as your streaming devices as they can sync together, either as part of a Chromecast audio group, or using their own sync system. They have models that have integrated amps, but the cheaper option is to buy a used yamaha amp off kijiji or a new fosi mini amp, and pair it with their streaming / Bluetooth only models.
From a speaker quality standpoint, Canada's National Research Council created one of the world's best audio labs / testing facilities in the 70s, which lead to the rise of numerous world class audiophile speaker companies: Paradigm, PSB, Energy, Mirage, Sound Dynamics, etc.
Energy, Mirage, and Sound Dynamics all eventually got bought by Klipsch and disappeared, but it means that our used speaker market is amazing. I got a pair of studio quality Energy speakers off Marketplace that blow everything else that I've ever listened to completely out of the water, for $400. They literally go down deeper then most subwoofers and were designed for CBC recording studios, and they cost less then my old soundbar. I would highly encourage you look on Kijiji / Marketplace for used Canadian-made Energy / PSB / Paradigm / Mirage speakers. A lot of audiophile grade speakers from the 90s and 00s can be found for next to nothing and still punch above $1k modern speakers.
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