Who pre-ordered the new Sonos AMP and what are your plans for it?

I have 3 Sonos Amps now.


You win :-)

I’ve got 2 Sonos Amp’s...and 4 more on the way! If you believe that I’ve got some prime swamp land complete with alligators, snakes and other poisonous wildlife that I’d like to sell you :8 LOL

Is your turntable connected to the AMP?
I'm thinking of doing that.

Yes I replaced one of my Connect:Amps with a Sonos Amp.

With good speakers the Sonos Amp is a noticable improvement. Much warmer sound. In the past I had never been able to get the room with my Connect:Amp to sound exactly the way I wanted. I have changed out speakers, tweaked with the sub settings etc. and just never had that nice good sound I wanted.

With the new Sonos Amp replacing - it is sounding now like I want it.

So it definately is an improvement. I think just from the watts per channel it is pushing the speakers much better. I am using B&W DM601's now (which are on the smaller side of their bookshelf line). The Connect:Amp didn't do them justice at all. If you have really small bookshelf speakers though you may not notice the difference so much. I had some smaller polks in that room in the past and I don't know with them if I would have seen as big a difference between the Connect:Amp vs. Sonos Amp. I think its all about the sweet spot on the speakers when it comes to watts per channel and the higher watts per channel does much better in my specific combination.

That's a good question on run a separate power amp off the line outs vs. replacing with a Sonos Amp.

Personally - I would be a little timid in investing more money into an older One heck of a great device but what happens when it dies (be buying a connect then I assume to replace).

The ZP100 also is starting to show its age in not having Airplay compatibility and who know what limits down the road.

If your happy with what it sounds like now I would ride it out … but if you want more power driven to speakers …. I would probably get a Sonos Amp and move the ZP100 to another room/application.

I am certainly not retiring my Connect:Amp just moving it to another less critical listening of an application.

Here photos Sonos Amp beside connect:amp it replaced. The Sonos Amp feels a lot less bulky. Its flatter (not nearly as tall) but deeper.

It's running my outdoor speakers, on a patio area, so critical listening is definitely not in the cards.

Other than probably some additional volume to the speakers - I don't think outside your going to notice anything from a sound quality perspective.

Is your turntable connected to the AMP?
I'm thinking of doing that.

It will be when my 2nd Sonos Amp arrives (supposedly Monday). The TT is in my media room down stairs. Can’t wait...but I guess I’ll to. :8

Other than probably some additional volume to the speakers - I don't think outside your going to notice anything from a sound quality perspective.

Yeah. The speakers are 40W RMS, 130W max, I can think of a lot better places in my audio budget for $600

Further playing in my smaller bar room it is night and day difference connect:amp to Sonos Amp.