Sonos Amp with existing amplifier

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October 27, 2020
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Hi

we purchased Sonos Amp and connected it to our existing amplifier that is connected to 7 in ceiling speakers each with a volume control slider on the wall. It seems to work but we’re worried about having 2 amplifiers together.

thanks

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Best answer by Kumar

You should be worried, power both down and disconnect them from each other immediately.

Assuming what you want to do is have a Sonos front end interface to the 7 speakers, the correct Sonos solution is a Sonos Port, wired to the line in jacks on the amplifier.

Or, a cheaper solution to get streamed music play there is by similarly wiring an Echo unit. Either a Dot, or a Echo Show 5 if you also want to see album art for what you are listening to.

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Kumar

Yeah, I saw that too. I suggest using just the red and white to either of the two speaker terminals on the Sonos amp and see how it goes.

I have no experience of ceiling speakers myself, so I can't say why one speaker has four wires to it. A typical speaker will have two, red and white, corresponding to the color codes on the amp. The amp has two terminals for a left right speaker pair.

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ChasquadAuthor

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I may have found an answer. The picture below is what the 4 speaker wires are connected to the Episodes amplifier. So, I just need to see the wire colors and what color is going into the R+, R, L and L+ and then do similar on the Sonos Amp for the single speaker’s 4 wires. I would guess that I could put them in the same order. The picture is off the web. So, I’ll have to look at the wires going into my amplifier.

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ChasquadAuthor

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So it looks like red is R+ and black is R and green is L and white is L+ for the other 6 speakers.

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Kumar

That should be ok. Basically, the red color code on the Sonos amp speaker terminal is the positive terminal. Of which there are two, one for left and one for right. It seems that each ceiling speaker takes signals from left and right, hence the four wires.

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