Please make a sonos multi zone amp!

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???

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.

I'll add to the chorus.  

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.

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!

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.

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).

I'll add to the chorus.  

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