Can Amp be used as Home Theater 5.1 brain?

Thanks Ryan for putting everything into the right perspective for arianf. To you Airgetlam for helping me to remember...this ain't the late 50's or 60's decade for that matter:8

Thank you for the thorough answer Ryan! Happy I reached out to you!

I miss watching my tubes glow and I hated the newfangled 8 Tracks...

I'm also in the camp that wants to be able to set up an optimal stereo image with my system. Tried Play 3s and 1s in mono, hated the mono sound, tried a Play 5 with the single point stereo it provides and it is decent. I don't have a Beam, Bar or Base but I've listened to them and for me they are great for TV but marginal for music.

Going to a pair of 1s, 3s or 5s set in good locations with respect to my listening spot gives me a much better sound from the system. Nothing wrong with the actual reproduction, it is just the stereo image that I am missing.

I'm fussing about the Sonos Amp, lots of money to replace a working AVR system but it does let me keep my rather nice speakers and use four out of the five and my matching subwoofer. If I am looking at it correctly it will also let me continue to use my DBX sub-harmonic synthesizer which will be great.

Just remember - if you plug anything into the Analog input of Sonos Amp it will be no different than Play:5 analog input as far as adding minor delay.

AjTrek1 and I may be of the same age :)
I'm probably only slightly younger :-)
I'm looking forward to the Sonos Amp. I'll use it with two tower speakers, probably Kef's, Sonos Sub, and two sonos ones in the rear. I'm using a Beam now but really want true stereo separation.
I'm thinking of connecting a turntable to the amp too.

Hey SOCalistic

So you think you're only slightly younger....do you remember 8 inch floppy discs :8

I'm looking forward to the Sonos Amp as well. Unfortunately, I don't think you'll be able to use it with a Sonos Sub...3rd party yes. I say that based upon this excerpt from the Sonos AMP announcement:

Use Sonos Amp to power your installed speakers as a separate Sonos room, or bond it with a pair of Sonos Ones, Play:1s, Play:3s, or Play:5s to become a surround sound setup that you can use with your TV. You can also use Amp to add your speakers as rears to a Sonos home-theater setup (by wirelessly bonding an Amp with Beam, Playbar, or Playbase) or use two Sonos Amps (one for the front right and left channels, the other for the rear channels) for surround sound.

I plan to use it with a pair of my "old school" Definitive Technology BP20's and matching powered sub (small end-table size ;)) and retire the "50lb" Sony DA 777ES they're currently connected to. LOL

Cheers!

I do remember 8 inch disks as well as 8-track :-)
I'd be pretty surprised if you couldn't use the Amp with the Sonos sub. That would piss of a lot of Sonos customers.
But I'm looking around and not seeing any references to it.

Of course you willl be able to use the Sonos amp with Sonos Sub. And also with any third party powered sub.

Of course you willl be able to use the Sonos amp with Sonos Sub. And also with any third party powered sub.

@Chris

I took SOCalistic's comment on using a Sonos Sub natively as you would via bonding with a Sonos speaker. I can't find any information on how to use the Sonos Amp with a Sonos Sub in the release notes at the link below. Please explain because obviously I'm missing something in those notes. Thanks!

https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/introducing-sonos-amp-6812069

Cheers!

https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/introducing-sonos-amp-6812069#post16263379