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I have for some years taken the signal from a Connect and fed it through a Sony STR-DN1050 AV Receiver to my home theatre 7.1 speaker setup. I am considering replacing the front left and front right speakers with a pair of Play5s using Line-in from the AV receiver for TV/Bluray sound. The Connect would be removed and the Sonos speakers provide a stereo pair in the normal way for my music library and streaming services. Does this make sense?
A question.... so you don't use the multichannel surround sound for TV/BR currently? Or don't mind sacrificing it?
Thanks for your interest.

I do use the 7.1 surround sound and would wish to continue to do so, that is what prompted me to think that I might be able to use LineIn to Sonos and improve sound quality in the main L&R speakers. Switching away from LineIn when I wished to use Sonos for stereo music.
There is no way in which the Play:5s could act as true FR and FL. The sound wouldn't sync. Honestly, forget it.



Keeping the existing system for TV/BR and having a pair of P:5s for music would be much more reasonable if there is space.
Your other problem besides bad sync is how to get a signal out of the AV receiver to feed the Sonos speakers.



The STR-DN1050 doesn't have pre-outs (phono sockets for each of the speaker channels before the signal goes off to the power amps inside the receiver). The red & white phono sockets are inputs, not outputs. The Zone 2 connections are outputs, but not for the front L&R channels of the 5.1/7.1 set-up. The volume to those sockets won't alter when you change the main zone volume, and they're outside of surround decoder so won't be getting the discrete L&R channel signals.



You've already got a great solution with the Connect feeding a line input on the AV receiver. If the sound from the front L&R speakers isn't good then buy better conventional front L&R speakers. Don't try to fit a square peg in a round hole.
Thanks all, I seem to have my answer. It doesn't make sense.