Can the Amp and Connect be told to output mono rather than stereo? Using with mono ceiling speakers in bathroom and kitchen.

Same here ... I'm using Sonos Amp for ceiling speakers in small rooms .... The rooms have a single speaker and a single run of speaker wire prior to constructions .. I am now looking at the audioplex's solution/transformer (kind of afraid to use it, since it's not even supported and I don't want to blow the sonos amp), but if the sonos amp was able to output in mono it wouldn't be this complicated. WHY IS THIS OPTION MISSING??? Just a toggle for mono/stereo in the EQ menu or something simple like that. I also have the same issue for outdoor speakers. PLEASE SONOS!! PLEASE!

I have silently, patiently waited for a mono model for Connect:Amp for years. But no more! As I see it mono is of benefit for whole home audio - but also commercial installations. If mono option in the software took the form of L+R, L, or R mono options, it could increase Sonos sales because 2 Connect:Amps could be sold for a bi-amped 'wireless speaker' solution.... Dynaudio appears to be offering a similar concept integrated into some of their speakers but without any of the benefits that a Sonos system offers. I wonder if they actually sell any - is there a market for it? If it really is just software, it wouldn't cost Sonos very much to find out.

Probably too late to help the OP, but he most likely had dual voicecoil speakers, which he is calling "mono". Any single speaker is "mono", but kitchen and bathrooms are often running on a DVC speaker which takes a stereo signal into one speaker and plays both left and right. He would have had no need for mono out on a sonos unit. However, I am a dealer and custom installer and this feature is long overdue. Commercial installations, places where you don't have more than two conductors to work with, yards, kitchens, etc all can use mono. Now I have to use a speerate amplifier and a summing device. Please fix this. I sell hundreds of units a year.

It would be extremely useful to switch a Amp unit to output two mono channels. I have recently put speakers into a bedroom with attached bathroom. I wanted to have one speaker rather than a pair in each. I fitted the BluCube CXCL-650-S which is a single 'stereo' speaker. (Nice sound quality, average flush finish.) With the option of Mono outputs I would of had a much larger choice of speakers.

Couldn't agree more : and Sonos while you're at it please make your mono smarter than the rest of the world's mono: let your amp push 2 different, independant streams in mono across each output - by doing this i can use one amp to deliver different, independant, programmable music to 2 separate bathrooms ! that would just be AWESOME ! While you're at it Sonos, please build a simple, wife-friendly, button-based controller for the kitchen and the bathroom that i can set next to the light switch - right now i have to bring the speaker wires to an attenuator, then back to teh speaker - having a nice little sonos volume + skip button controller would be so much smarter...

Sebastian going mono is a simple software change. Two streams requires a whole new set of hardware. You are asking for one unit to do the work of two. I don't think that will happen. Most companies are not about sabotaging their own sales. Such capability would increase the cost per unit substantially, going mono should not.

One more vote for mono option here for all the reasons listed above

One more vote for mono for all the above reasons

I have silently, patiently waited for a mono model for Connect:Amp for years. But no more! As I see it mono is of benefit for whole home audio - but also commercial installations. If mono option in the software took the form of L+R, L, or R mono options, it could increase Sonos sales because 2 Connect:Amps could be sold for a bi-amped 'wireless speaker' solution.... Dynaudio appears to be offering a similar concept integrated into some of their speakers but without any of the benefits that a Sonos system offers. I wonder if they actually sell any - is there a market for it? If it really is just software, it wouldn't cost Sonos very much to find out.

I had another customer, yesterday who wanted better 'wireless' speakers than PLAY:5. The Play:5s are great value for money, but my customer wanted something better. 2 Connect Amps bi-amping a pair of nice mid-priced speakers could have suited him down to the ground. It's worth noting that my 'L-or-R mono option' is already offered as 'create a stereo pair' in the PLAY: products (L+R is in the PLAY:1). But stereo-pair Connect:Amps? Please?

One more vote for mono option here for all the reasons listed above


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