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Hi. First time posting. I did a search, so if this is answered elsewhere, do direct me please.

Goal: Use a Connect Amp (Gen 1) and two B&W speakers as the sound output for my nice but old Philips TV.
Output: My choices on the TV are HDMI, HDMI ARC, Digital Audio, and the trusty-old Headphone jack (3.5mm).
Input: The Amp has RCA left and right. 

My hunch: Headphone jack directly to the RCAs and call it a day. I ordered a $10 cable from Amazon and hope it works.

Questions: Think it’ll work? What about the mystical “delay” that seems to exist or not depending on … something? Generally speaking, will the use of the headphone jack simply direct the sound that way or does one need to select that as the preferred output? Can I set the Sonos volume to something reasonable and then use the TV audio controller to raise and lower the sound rather than control the Sonos using the phone?

Thank you and best wishes.

The Line-In incurs a 75ms delay due to buffering, and will cause a lipsync problem which you may or may not notice.  Some are more sensitive to it than others.  Personally it would drive me crazy.

I guess for $10 I’ll find out.

Any other ways to neutralize that problem?

Thanks.

Use a Sonos device designed for connection to a TV? A Ray, a Beam, or an Arc? The CONNECT:AMP is certainly not.

Trying to avoid $700 solutions, of which there are plenty. I just want to play TV and music through my B&W speakers because I have them and like them. I can always cut Sonos out of the equation entirely and get an old stereo receiver, but since I have this …

There’s no other way to avoid that 75ms minimum delay, it’s on all analog line ins. Part of the software, can’t be removed. 

The only solution to play TV through passive speakers using Sonos is the Amp.  As stated, the Connect:Amp is not optimal for any type of time sync sensitive input.  

Thanks.

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