Are these Sonance speakers part of the Architectural line, and labeled as such? What does the Sonance website say?

Hi ​@jaytay68 

Welcome to the Sonos Community!

To expand upon ​@Airgetlam’s answer a little, if the speakers are not part of the Architectural line, then only 4 speakers are supported. I do believe, however, that Sonance sell some speaker sets along with a Sonos Amp - if your speakers were part of such a set, then they will likely be fine.

I hope this helps.

Is it possible to have two of the six speakers wiring run through a volume knob and then run to the Sonos amp?  I assume yes since all the knobs really do is cut off some of the power to the speaker.  That way the four other speakers could be in a living room and the other two (6 total) can wire through volume knobs and then to amp with other wires 

Hi ​@Billycanfly 

Is it possible? Sure.

Is it a supported configuration? No, I don’t think so.

Will it work? Probably, yes.

If the Amp ever reduces the volume to 15%, however, it is doing so to protect itself from overloading - if this ever happens, I’d recommend removing the volume control from the equation.

I hope this helps.

A bit late here, but with some info that may help. Are you hooking up three speakers to the left channel, and three to the right channel amp outputs? If so, and if you’re hooking them up in parallel, if the speakers are 8 ohms, you’ll have an effective (speaker) load for each amp channel of 2.67 ohms. That is a TOUGH load for an amp to drive. A Crown or QSC amp (or other good commercial-grade amp)… no problem. A typical consumer-grade amp?… 4 ohms (two 8 ohm speakers in parallel) is asking a lot.

And, just confirmed, Sonos does NOT recommend anything less than a 4 ohm (nominal) load.

Install a Niles VCS100K for each pair of speakers.