Sonos AMP

The Amp is designed to be used with wired speakers. So how did you as you say connect it to a Sonos One? Was your turntable somehow involved? Furthermore what would be the purpose of doing so? Thus far your post is not congruent.

What is it that you want to Achieve?

There are so many wrongs in your post:

• Sonos One’s are S1 capable, so you did not have to upgrade the Connect Amp to an Amp;
• Why buy a Connect Amp (that’s made for passive speakers) or Amp instead of a Connect or Port that would have been sufficient

It also seems you are trying to set the system up as a surround set up instead of two or more separate “rooms” containing the Amp or one or more of the One’s. Why?

I see a little more information is needed…

“A class action lawsuit has been filed against Sonos, alleging that the company wrote and installed code on customers’ devices to cause the controllers to fail in July 2018, in order to encourage customers to buy newer Sonos products, especially higher priced items12. The lawsuit was filed after Sonos decided to forcibly put out to pasture its CR100 hardware controller following a July 2018 firmware” update2. Google is also suing Sonos over patent infringement3.

A quick search will bring up similar information.

2015 As I originally stated, my turntable was the reason for the purchase. The Connect Amp worked fine with my BOSE until it was ‘bricked’ by the above software update in 2018.

2020 When I decided to replace it 2 years later, the Sonos Amp was the logical and only choice, and it worked well with my BOSE.

2021 My wife then bought the Sonos Ones and I was able to connect to them in another room and play my LPs all over the house. Like it or not, it worked. Why shouldn’t I be able to?

2023 We moved and the system was in storage for 6 months.

2024 This brings us up to the present and my inquiry.

The ability to downgrade to S1 from S2 didn’t appear until after S2 was launched, as far as I know, and I never used S1 with the Sonos Amp. I’m not even sure that I can.

If you follow the timeline logically, you will see that your suggestions do not apply to my situation.

If Sonos Amp can configure other Sonos components as surrounds, why can’t it configure them as fronts?

Are you trying to get three Sonos speakers across the front as Left / Center / Right channels? If so that’s not possible with the current Sonos technology. You would have to purchase a Sonos Arc, Beam2 or Ray.

The Sonos Connect Amp is designed for the two wired speakers it is connected to, to be the Stereo Right and Left channels. They still work fine today and are still supported. It would connect to your Sonos One with no problems using the room / grouping menu.

The Sonos Amp (a very different product) in Audio mode it works just as the older Connect Amp, front right and left only. When in TV mode you have more options but not the ability to directly add more front channel speakers. You could still group additional speakers with it to play the front channels but there would be a slight delay in the sound. No delay if you add them as surrounds and select Full Mode for playback.

You could group your Sonos One to either and have the One play the front channels.