connecting speaker wires to amp

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June 9, 2024
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I have a Sonos amp and I have a total of six ceiling speakers that run off the amp. Four of the speakers are in my great room and two of the speakers are on a porch. This was connected before and worked fine. With the recent update, I had to undo everything And now I am to the Point of connecting wires to the amp and can’t seem to get the rooms to work independent of each other. I want to be able to control the volume on the porch as well as in the great room. See the below pictures and give me direction on how to connect them to the amp, please. Thank you !

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Anonymous

Ok. Still need a wiring diagram.

You’ve already got it working - you said music comes out of each speaker.

If you have only one amp, that is one volume control for all speakers connected to that amp. You cannot have independent control of the speakers connected to one amp. You need multiple amps for independent control.

I’m curious — you said you disconnected everything for the recent uodate — what do you mean by that as the no update requires you to disconnect any speakers?

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OceanwoodsAuthor

Contributor I

I called Sonos and waited to 80 or so minutes until troubleshooting tech picked up. He had me try a number of things which led to removing wires as they were connected and start over. Call later failed and didn’t have time to wait in que for another tech. But before all of this I had this installed my a local AV company and I could control the volume in each zone from my iPhone. I could have the volume up on the porch and low in the family room. I’m going to make an appointment with AV company at this point. Thank you.

press250

Prodigy III

Gentlemen, I have an idea: the Sonos Amp was in Dual Mono mode, and said mode is not yet supported in the new app.

https://support.sonos.com/en/article/dual-mono-mode

I think Dual Mono mode might separate the Left and Right sides of an Amp (or Port) to appear as two rooms in the app. I cannot test my theory as I’m on the new app.

The wiring would have been (red-to-red, black-to-black) ...

Amp RIGHT = GR Right and GR Left, wired in parallel
Amp LEFT = Porch

@Oceanwoods Please don’t re-wire anything, yet

@Stanley_4 @jgatie @Andrew-s Chime in if you have an insights

press250

Prodigy III

Aha, confirmed the second half of my theory. Dual Mono mode is not yet implemented in the new app.

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OceanwoodsAuthor

Contributor I

All makes great sense now. Thank you all.

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