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Connect Playbar wirelessly to Connect amp

  • May 7, 2017
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  • Contributor I
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Can the play bar connect wirelessly to the connect amp so that it can stream TV sound to the speakers connected to the connect amp?

Best answer by John B

Yes but given one further proviso. Your whole system must be in what Sonos call Boost mode, which requires a Sonos component to be connected by Ethernet to your router. That could be the Playbar, the C:A, another Sonos speaker, a Boost or a Bridge.
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  • May 7, 2017
It depends what you mean. You can group the Playbar and the C:A but the audio won't be perfectly in sync. That may or may not matter to you depending on where the C:A is located and why you want to do this. Neither has to be wired.

However, for the C:A to function as rear surrounds for the Playbar, your system must be in Boost mode and there must be a wired path from the Playbar to the C:A. You could wire them by cabling them to each other, or by cabling them both to the router.

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  • Contributor I
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  • May 11, 2017
Thx John, I intend to have passive speakers in the ceiling at the rear of the room that the play bar is in. If I wire the play bar via ethernet cable to the C:A will the sound from the play bar that will be connected by optical cable to the TV be in sync with the rear speakers in the ceiling?

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  • May 11, 2017
Yes but given one further proviso. Your whole system must be in what Sonos call Boost mode, which requires a Sonos component to be connected by Ethernet to your router. That could be the Playbar, the C:A, another Sonos speaker, a Boost or a Bridge.

  • Lyricist I
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  • June 14, 2017
Are there any plans in future firmware updates to allow the connect:amp to connect with a playbar wirelessly as the surround (i.e. not have to be ethernet wired together)? Or is that structurally not possible because of design limitations in the connect:amp

  • 19684 replies
  • June 14, 2017
It's impossible to make it wireless. To avoid latency the Sonos surround system uses 5GHz wireless and the C:A was designed before all that and doesn't have a 5GHz wireless capability. Note that the wired connection can be achieved by wiring the PB and C:A to your router, not necessarily directly to each other.

  • Lyricist I
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  • June 14, 2017
Thanks for the speedy reply and info