How to setup Sonos Connect for upgrade to streaming

Thanks John B that was helpful.

Sync is not going to be a problem as I will be in the office upstairs and can't let if the stream is out of whack :)


How will you play the equipment downstairs while listening to its output upstairs? The way to do this is to access the ripped CDs; this can be done from upstairs/anywhere even if the server holding the ripped files in downstairs. In practice this will also mean that you will end up having no need for the CD player/CDs once the ripping is done.

While listening to Spotify does not feel like a priority just now, that too may well change once you get used to all it offers.

Something to consider while you take heed of the John B advice.

I thought CONNECT would add multiroom to the equipment I already have, from what I read:
https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/connect.html

Yes, but if the CD player is downstairs, you will need to physically be there to load/change CDs even when you want to listen to them upstairs. Ditto for the turntable. I probably didn't express this clearly.

But if your CDs are ripped to a network server, then you can wirelessly command Sonos to play music from the server. It doesn't matter where you are or where the server is as long as there is a wireless connection.

Got it! It's a 5 CD changer :)

But your point is taken. I'm also looking at a network server, once I have the basic streaming sorted out.

Sonos doesn't need much of a server, I'm using a Raspberry Pi and a Western Digital Live drive works well too.

A belated thanks to John-B and Bruce. It's been a few months now and everything works as intended 🙂

Delighted to have been of assistance. Enjoy your Sonos 🙂

Umm, sorry for the thread revival....

The author has some nice gear, including a B&K pre-amp. Most B&K pre-amps have a tape monitor function, allowing for another connection strategy that might be worth considering.

Pasting from another thread I commented on:

If you have a tape monitor feature available, connect the tape output of the pre-amp (Tape Out) to the Sonos Connect input, and the output of the Connect to the tape input (Tape In) on the pre-amp. Whatever music source you want to listen to on your Sonos system should be selected on the pre-amp (Phono, for example). Then engage the tape monitor. It's often a separate pushbutton... The signal on the Phono input will be routed to the Tape Out jacks, and the input to the receiver will come from the Tape In jacks. Since you are now listening to the delayed signal from the Connect, your speakers should all be in sync.

Turn off the tape monitor if you want to hear the audio source directly on the main system.

If you want to listen to the output of the Connect, you can either engage Tape Monitor, or select Tape as the input with the input selector. Note that If you play a source on the Sonos system and the main system at the same time without engaging the tape monitor the speakers won't be in sync (unless it is the Connect itself acting as the source).

A nice thing about this strategy is that you can leave all your gear wired to the pre-amp as before. For "critical listening" on your main system disengage the tape monitor and you can listen to your sources directly.

Good luck and happy listening.