I’ve not come across that system before. I’ll have a look!
I started a rebuild on 8 May 2021 and Zuma launched a week later. I was a bit of a beta tester and the Luminaire units were only available from January 2022, a few weeks after the last contractor had finished. I was primarily looking for a good lighting system, not sound. There is nothing else like it on the market and I understand it is being sold mainly through house builders, interior designers, that sort of thing, which is more how the CEDIA market works. I know a lot more than I can say, but with a 95mm hole cutter, you can take out a ceiling LED light, widen the hole, connect the transformer and put in the unit in a few minutes. Then just connect to your wifi.
I put in 26 Luminaire units, my electrician put in the transformers in a couple of hours and me and another chap got all the units installed in 90 minutes, most of which was unpacking. In a big instal like mine, with a total of 50 units on two floors, you do need good wifi with no lag. I put in four Ubiquiti wired access points, covers the house over 3 floors for £600.
You can spend a lot of money on home automation. My window guy has literally everything automated. I have an automated TV swivel from Future Automation in our bedroom that cost more than the TV. This Zuma system is very good value given it covers sound and light, and is likely to have other technologies like security built in over time. It also saved a lot on wiring and switches. I have 3 zones with 26 units on a single on/off switch, except the units stay powered up so I can tell them to play music without switching them on. So it gets a bit complicated!
A big problem with a single speaker is that it is a point source and you get uneven sound levels. Sonos is a point source and if you stand under or next to a unit you know about it. Devialet Phantom and Reactor have extremely good dispersion, but still can sound like a point source. These Zuma units, you can have your head 2 feet from it, looking at it, and have no idea where the sound is coming from. , but you can still get a stereo image. It's a bit weird, but brilliant as you get very even sound levels and can fill a room with sound without deafening anyone or getting bass problems in corners (as was the case with the otherwise fabulous Bose cubes). For ambient music at home, bars, restaurants etc., it's great.