Hello!
I’ve moved into a house where there are speakers in ceilings in every room (8 rooms) going back to one control which is currently a CD player. I’d like to upgrade to a Sonos to control each room separately. What would be the best way to do this?
If you want to control each room separately using Sonos, you’d need a Sonos Amp for each room, assuming these are passive speakers.
Is the mentioned CD Player linked to an Amp and does the setup currently allow the audio to play to each/all of the zones separately/together? If that is the case, you could likely add a Sonos Port to the same Amp as another line-in audio source …and then use the music services available via Sonos and play all to your speakers, but it depends on how the setup is currently configured / type of hardware you may have already.
If that’s the case, note that the Sonos Port, just like the CD player, is a single audio source, and does not supply 8 different audio streams simultaneously.
Is the current system functional? If so, replacing the CD player with a PORT would get you going. How does the current system control Volume in the rooms? Are there any in-wall or central Volume controls? If you want eight truly independent SONOS Rooms, as stated above, you would need eight AMP’s.
If there are in-wall Volume controls, it may not be necessary to have eight truly independent SONOS Rooms. For example, a bedroom-bathroom-closet suite may not need independent feeds in each area and could be attached to a single AMP, however, you would want the ability to balance the Volume in each area, ideally with local in-wall Volume controls.
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