If I were a rich man...

I would certainly value ease-of-use over saving money and dicking about with setting up my own system which ends up with me having to use my laptop to control it.

In my eyes the ideal setup is speakers in each room and something like an iPad on the wall next to (or replacing) your light switches, with a central server hidden some place (or each pad clones data).

Does this already exist - using standard standalone speakers with a bluetooth/wifi connection and an iPhone app?