2nd TV in bedroom no 2nd playbar best way to connect ?

With that many devices, a BOOST would help, for sure, and at the least remove all the traffic from your local WiFi. I’m not a fan of the CONNECT:AMP as a connection to a TV, due to the latency of the analog connection in preparing the signal for streaming. But your experience could be different, and you could easily test it without spending anything for a new Sonos device. You already have the PLAY:5, disconnect then as rears from the living room temporarily, and string an output from the bedroom TV to the Line in on a PLAY:5, which would give you the same delay as plugging in to the CONNECT:AMP

The part that confuses me is how the CONNECT:AMP in the bedroom would do anything at all
to the entire network, unless your router was there and the CONNECT:AMP was directly connected to it.

Hi thank you for the detailed reply, the router is in the bedroom, I also wanted to keep the play 5 in the front room if possible as it has been mounted to the wall....

So would the amp be the best / most cost effective way to go ?

Thank You

Best? No. I'd be an advocate of getting a PLAYBAR or PLAYBASE in the second bedroom.

But would it work? Sure. As I say, you have the potential of being disturbed by the lag that the analog in induces, or not. So, putting the CONNECT:AMP in the bedroom, connecting it to the router with an ethernet cable would be effectively the same as getting a BOOST, and then you could connect the TV to the analog input on the CONNECT:AMP and have it distributed to whichever speakers you want, either Sonos speakers, or speakers attached to the speaker posts on the CONNECT:AMP. But if you're not connecting speakers to the posts on that device, and only using Sonos speakers, then I'd go with a CONNECT, rather than a CONNECT:AMP. Less cost, does effectively the same thing, without powering an set of other speakers.

Great replies really helpful thank you, I don’t have any other speakers in the house except Wi-fi sonos....

I have spent a lot of money on sonos already so trying to keep extra costs to a min...

Just so o have got it right would the boost connect the 2nd TV to the network and help with the lag ?

Even tonight in the main room speakers are cutting in and out as the Wi-fi lags

Thank You

No, a BOOST doesn't have any analog audio inputs in for the TV to plug in to . You want to get a CONNECT (and not the CONNECT:AMP, since you're not driving outside speakers).

A BOOST only has ethernet connections, which allows it to connect to your router, and then generates a SonosNet signal, for all other Sonos devices to connect to, so that they're not sharing the same bandwidth as your own wifi signal. Think of it as a "parallel" signal. Still uses the DHCP from your router, but it separates the music bandwidth from what your wifi devices are using.

Since you want to connect the TV to the Sonos system, a CONNECT is the device you want. You can connect it to the router with an ethernet cable, and it will create the SonosNet system, just like a BOOST does, but it has an analog input, which the BOOST doesn't. Then you can connect (using RCA cables, be sure to check the back of your TV!) the TV to the CONNECT, and get the audio that way.

Make sense?

That is perfect, exactly what I needed to know
THANK YOU 🙂

Hi I purchaed the Connect it has optic digital audio and so does the tv... perfect ? you have been really helpful. Thank You ?

Note that the CONNECT has an optical out. Not an optical input. This is why I referenced the RCA cables above. The input on a CONNECT is analog, not digital.

Noted ? Thank You, RCA will work great.. can I ask do you think the lagging audio / sound problem will be fixed completely by the connect ?

No, absolutely not. The lag will occur with any analog input into the Sonos ecosystem. You can't change that. The only "non-lag" items are the PLAYBAR and PLAYBASE.

Any analog input has to be converted to digital, and buffered, so that it can play simultaneously across all Sonos devices. There's just no way of getting around that on an analog input.