Please make a sonos multi zone amp!
I really like my sonos equipment. However, my whole house was wired for speakers in every room (ceiling, walls, patio) with the wiring centralized in a wiring closet/built in audio rack. Instead of purchasing a separate zone amp for every room/speaker pair, I would much rather buy one or two multi zone amps from Sonos. Any chance there is a multi zone amp on the horizon? Please, please, please!!!!
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I think I've found what I'm looking for, Control4. It will do everything I want to do and I don't have to buy all the individual Sonos amps. Plus it works with all the other media, lights, security, and internet of things.
Just need their 8 zone amp and controller, interfaces with Sonos as well
https://www.control4.com
Just need their 8 zone amp and controller, interfaces with Sonos as well
https://www.control4.com
Be careful. There are some problems with the Control4 and the new Sonos home integration API.
https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/control4-integration-with-sonos-70-6762342
https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/control4-integration-with-sonos-70-6762342
https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/control4-integration-with-sonos-70-6762342
https://www.control4.com/press_releases/2016/08/30/control4-partners-with-sonos-in-their-first-ever-endorsed-partner-integration-program
i suspect it will get worked out. Control4 is an endorsed partner
Is the former not a function of the control application and not of the nature of the speakers? If so, play units are fully capable of delivering on a connected home strategy?
Is the former not a function of the control application and not of the nature of the speakers? If so, play units are fully capable of delivering on a connected home strategy?
In a word no. There is more to connected home integration than simple interoperability through an API as the current fail with Control4 is demonstrating. Most advanced integrations using Sonos depend heavily on the Connect and Connect Amp to utilize I/O ports, special speaker situations and so on. There aren't many truly connected homes that are at the same time so simplistic that a few powered speakers are all they need for sound.
If the Sonos definition of "connected home" is simply to let some third party hardware or software provide basic transport control and start playback from a limited list of favorites (as apparently Control4 integration has been reduced to) then I'm afraid they don't really understand what consumers are looking for in this space.
So... We are all looking for a Sonos version of the HEOS Drive. Why is this not a thing yet?
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Seems a redundant device and more expensive then individual units.
The bottom of this page has a great summary of why the Drive would be used instead of multiple Amps:
http://www.audioholics.com/amplifier-reviews/denon-heos-drive-preview
http://www.audioholics.com/amplifier-reviews/denon-heos-drive-preview
So, $2499 for 4 zones instead of $2000 for 4 zones? Kind of goes against the theme in this thread about not wanting to pay for individual Connect:Amps when combining them would be less expensive.
I wish I had heard of this Denon unit before I started buying Sonos amps. 😞
Why, so that you can pay $125 extra per zone?
To have everything in one unit and be able to play in multiple zones at once (and possibly play Spotify without a subscription)? Heck yeah!
Don't much care about single unit vs. discrete amps but the summing mono and 12V triggers would be super handy.
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If you use a multi zone amp you will typically lose the ability to play different music in each zone. This issue has been discussed on the SONOS forum numeous times. I have not heard of SONOS developing a SONOS multi zone amp and I have been a user of their system sicne 2008.
I thought that if you had multiple Sonos Zone Amps, you could play different music on each of the amps or zones? What I'm looking for is basically Sonos to put 4 or 5 of the zp120's in one enclosure. So it would be integrated from physical standpoint, but not from a single source to multiple zone standpoint. I just don't want to buy a bunch of individual zone players? Make sense???
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You are correct, I was thinking about a SONOS connected to a multi zone external amp. Typically these were used in centralized music distribution systems. The issue of a SONOS Multi Amp solution has compe up on the forum numerous times since I started using the system in 2008.
I ended up buying a bunch of ZP120's. Annoying to have so many boxes, but they are in a closet and if something dies I only need to replace one box. More expensive to buy, looks untidy in the closet, but cheaper to replace if any faults.
Yes, please make this!
Yes! I am a home automation contractor and I use Sonos products in almost every home audio install--either as a source to another brand multi-zone amp--or using one or more Connect:Amps. Customers love the Sonos controller app and they love to be able to control their whole-house music from the Sonos app--even when they have a whole-house automation system that can control the Sonos. I would love to see Sonos release a line of multi-zone amps--like a 4-zone, 6-zone, and 8-zone. It would be great if you could bring the cost-per-zone down into the $300 (retail) range--and still retain the ability to stream different sources to each zone. I would install these in every multi-zone project!
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Mark - if running 2 rooms off one connect:Amp and want to be able to turn off one or the other you could do a volume control on wall of each room that the speaker wire runs through.
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such as https://www.google.com/shopping/product/13931552994009212502?q=volume+control+in+wall&safe=activ...
There are also some a little more expensive onces that have impedence matching where you could actually run 4 speakers off the volume switch with the line coming from Connect:Amp (in that case you could actually run 2 rooms of 4 speakers each off one Connect:Amp).
There are also some a little more expensive onces that have impedence matching where you could actually run 4 speakers off the volume switch with the line coming from Connect:Amp (in that case you could actually run 2 rooms of 4 speakers each off one Connect:Amp).
I built a home with hardwired speakers in many rooms. All are 8 ohm speakers, so each amp I have can drive 2 pair.
I understand the issue of not being able to have different music sources on each zone/amp. But it would be nice to be able to connect 2 pair of speakers to each amp, and only drive one pair if I want to shut off the music in another room.
Not a very timely response for you Mark; however, in case anyone else is looking to do this, you might check out this speaker selector line (2, 4, or 6 room) with what Aton calls "Dynamic Level Adjustment". They claim that it doesn't just do impedance matching--but rather, it monitors how many rooms are on and delivers the maximum amount of power to each room in use. These devices can be controlled by a control system using IR commands. Here's a link: http://www.atonhome.com/dla2room.html
Yes! This, right here! If there was a company that would create a multi-zone amp like Sonos that could also:
a) control multiple zones through one device (without having to buy one device fore each zone)
b) allow different sources through any combination of zones (for example, I want to listen to source A in the kitchen and living room zones, the wife wants to listen to source B in the bathroom while having a bath, and the kids want to listen to source C in their bedrooms)
If someone would build THIS (with the ability to add more zones of course by connecting additional devices to allow for expansion) they would make a killing! This is where requirements are moving towards in a lot of homes and it is odd that nobody has come up with a solution. I have seen posts going back 8 years asking for something like this! I don't think Sonos is going to be the company that will deliver it, so I'm going to keep looking.
a) control multiple zones through one device (without having to buy one device fore each zone)
b) allow different sources through any combination of zones (for example, I want to listen to source A in the kitchen and living room zones, the wife wants to listen to source B in the bathroom while having a bath, and the kids want to listen to source C in their bedrooms)
If someone would build THIS (with the ability to add more zones of course by connecting additional devices to allow for expansion) they would make a killing! This is where requirements are moving towards in a lot of homes and it is odd that nobody has come up with a solution. I have seen posts going back 8 years asking for something like this! I don't think Sonos is going to be the company that will deliver it, so I'm going to keep looking.
So, let me get this straight. You want the company that made it possible to do multiroom audio without the wiring to build a product that requires wiring? How does this make any sense at all? What am I missing here?
Well, I'm renovating my house, so I have the opportunity to wire in some speakers in each room. I like the fact that I can have some nice, sleek, flush high-quality speakers in each room (plus, a lot of new homes offer pre-installed in-ceiling sound systems with a custom build. A lot of my family went with this option).
Also, I'm not a fan of dropping bulky speakers and equipment in each room, and I prefer wired over wireless (usually more reliable and better quality) for everything.
This way, I can wire everything to a small closet in the basement, and control everything through our devices and not have anything visible. Also, by having all of the speakers going through one device, I was hoping that it would allow for the same feed to go to multiple zones. For example, you're having a house party, you could have the same songs go to the living room, kitchen, and basement. Right now, Sonos only option is dropping shelf speakers and a sonos box in each room and having a different feed coming through each one. I suppose an all-in-one amp may not have a huge need, but I know a lot of people that might buy it and people seem to keep asking for it in these forums.
I could get away with just buying a CONNECT:AMP for each zone, but then I wouldn't be able to do the same feed to multiple zones (and would cost a fortune!).
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