Sonos Amp and existing amp

Hi

Out of curiosity…what Sonos speakers are you using currently to hear your vinyl? Also, if I read your post correctly you want to stream Sonos music TO your previous amp through the speakers wired to it. Isn’t that correct?

How is that different from what you are hearing now, what is the benchmark for the quoted? Assuming that there is such and what you are hearing is audibly not up to that benchmark, the kind of tinkering you are outlining isn’t going to get you any nearer to it, assuming that what you are getting is not the true vinyl sound.

But if that is indeed the case, the areas to address are on the turntable/preamp side, or on the speakers that the Sonos Amp is wired to. The Sonos Amp in itself is transparent enough to not be concerned about what it is doing in the system.

Apologies, I think I’ve maybe explained this badly. I’m not using Sonos speakers, I’m talking about adding a Sonos amp to a traditional hifi set up to stream music through to my Mission speakers. I guess if I was starting from scratch I’d just buy a Port to add to the system to enable streaming, but I already have a Sonos Amp. 

Thanks for the reply Kumar, especially regarding the Sonos Amp’s transparency. I’m sure I can hear the lack of warmth via the Sonos Amp, but that might just be me and 40 years of listening to an analog source. 

Yes, that’s correct. 

Ah, I see. That’s a shame. I assumed that I’d be able to add it to an existing system (that’s what the guy in the hihi shop told me). Many thanks for your help here. 

@Markc553

To clear things up…I’m a bit long in the tooth 😂 I say that because back in the day stereo amps had a pair of extra RCA ports that could used to connect a device of choice. That port was often labeled as AUX. 

So… to your question you could purchase a Sonos Port and run RCA’s from its line-out to your Amp’s AUX port to stream music via Sonos.

In fact I still have an old Panasonic (vintage 1975) with an AUX Port. When tape decks were envogue often times people would have one connected to Tape In and Tape Out ports for recording and another deck connected to the AUX port just for playback.

Of course all I have said hinges upon if the AUX port on your amp is just an unassigned selectable input.

Note: The Aux port still exists. However people today know it as CD” input 😂

Fair enough, I have only about three decades of experience of using many high quality stereo amps with various sources. I am sure that you do realise that what you are suggesting is that your two amplifiers sound different from each other given the same source and driving the same speakers, which means that at least one of them does not meet the criteria defined decades ago for quality amps being a straight wire with gain, by adding or taking away nothing that is audible to/from the source signal.