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I have been thinking about this for quite some time. Not everyone is solely SONOS or Audiophile-grade components. However, SONOS plays in an upper scale price point for casual-listening of music and does so very well. That same household might have a higher-end network streamer like the NAD C700 which is a streamer/amplifier with speaker outputs in a room more dedicated to music. How would one connect these two concepts and play the same music everywhere? Without a SONOS Port adding $500 to the budget?

The idea is to play higher res and MQA files in the “listening” room and send the same audio stream to SONOS the system to play at 24-bit/44 kHz …

Impossible? Ideas? Thoughts? Solutions?

Port is the only Sonos device that can output to another system.  For analog input, your options are Port, Amp, Five, Era 100, and Era 300. For bluetooth to the Sonos system, you have Roam, Era 100, and Era 300.  For optical or hdmi arc input, you have Ray, Beam,  Arc, or Amp.

 

Note that you are going to get an buffer/delay on the Sonos system with these inputs, so do not expect perfect sync.

That same household might have a higher-end network streamer like the NAD C700 which is a streamer/amplifier with speaker outputs in a room more dedicated to music

Objectively from a point of view of a blind listening test, all that high end means is higher priced bulkier components. Sonos sound quality can be just as good as it can get at every price point at or above that of their cheapest speaker.

I get that you may disagree with the above, but also trying to mix and match kit with Sonos only a part of the solution is not a good idea. As you will discover if you go down that road.

Depending on the physical layout of your space, the 75ms SONOS latency might not be an issue. If you can simultaneously hear a SONOS player and your NAD, the latency will be a deal breaker, but remote rooms will not be a problem.

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