A/V Receiver with Sonos surround units

Hi Manu,

The Sonos home theater setup includes a PLAYBAR as the center and front left/right channels, with a Sonos SUB and rear surrounds (PLAY:1, PLAY:3, PLAY:5 or CONNECT:AMP) as optional additions for full 5.1. They won't bond with your existing receiver and speakers.

The CONNECT could work with your existing receiver to stream the Sonos sources into it. You'd be able to group those speakers with your Sonos players too, but not in a surround environment.

Hello, I have a denon av receiver and was wondering whether I'd be able to hook up the sonos devices to my av receiver ? And if so what would I need?

You can turn your Denon AV receiver into a Sonos full unit by hooking a Sonos Connect to your AV receiver.  This allows you to play Sonos music on your existing Denon system.  It will also allow you to play existing equipment hooked to your AV receiver (such as CD player, TV, DVD, etc.) through any wireless Sonos speakers in your house.

Note:  What you can't do is put some wireless Sonos speakers in place like rears and have them syncd up as surround speakers from your Denon.  There is only 1 way to have home theater sound through the wireless speakers and that is the Playbar front (3s or 1s rears).  Without this setup wireless speakers will just be stereo speakers outputting sound sent to them.

Oh right ok so basically you would need to have the playbar and 2 front 1's and 2 rear 1's as well as the sub to act as a surround sound system...do they stream in tru hd do you know ?

Play at is center, left and right. You don't use other speakers for front just the surround. What is fed into the playbar at has to be Dolby digital 5.1 or stereo. So if you have blu ray player it needs to transcode finds 5.1 unless your TV does.

My denon receiver decodes 5.1 surround sound so will this be suitable to decode 5.1 surround ? Can I use 1's or 3's as front speakers though if I wanted to ?

You can not use Sonos speakers as channels from the denon receiver. Your denon receiver has wired outputs to wired speakers for your 5.1

Oh right okay....so basically the setup would be just the playbar sub and 2 1's or 3's using the sonos connect ?

Oh right okay....so basically the setup would be just the playbar sub and 2 1's or 3's using the sonos connect ?
No you don't need the sonos connect to set up 5.1

Sorry I thought you said I needed it to connect the sonos speakers to my denon av receiver