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Ryan S
Ryan S
Retired Sonos Staff
August 29, 2018

Introducing Sonos Amp

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Available starting February 2019, Sonos Amp is the all-new, versatile amplifier to power all your entertainment and bring the sonic content you love to every room of your home. The Amp has been redesigned with more than twice the power of the original Connect:Amp, with more versatility, and will enable new experiences through the platform.

Play your favorite streaming content on Sonos, connect to your TV through HDMI-ARC, or plug into any audio device, including a turntable to power your vinyl collection.

Sonos Amp will fit in any home environment, whether as a compact and elegant solution for in-rack AV installations, wall mounted, tucked under furniture, or on display in a room.

Details and Specs





Physical Specs Amp comes in Matte black with black and silver banana plugs all in a standard rack fit size. The dimensions are 8.54 x 8.54 x 2.52 in. (217 mm (w) x 217 mm (d) x 64 mm (h)) and it weighs 4.6 lbs. (2.1 kg). Custom banana plugs that accept 10 - 18 AWG speaker wire and the Class-D digital amplifier sends a maximum of 125W per channel at 8 Ohms.

The subwoofer output is auto-detecting RCA with adjustable crossover (50 to 110Hz).

Capable of using two line-in sources, analog RCA audio input, and HDMI-ARC inputs. Amp plays Dolby Digital 5.1 or PCM stereo sound over HDMI-ARC.

Versatile Design



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.

The Sonos Amp drives left and right speakers, and it will create a phantom center channel when sent discrete audio for that channel.

Sonos Amp has all the features of Sonos in a powerful package:
  • Sonos supports over 100 services. Choose the ones you want and listen to music, podcasts, radio, and audiobooks. You can also play all the music stored on your computer or other devices.
  • Sonos has built a software platform that enables hundreds of partners and gives our customers unparalleled freedom of choice. Amp features AirPlay 2, access to home automation partners, and voice control when wirelessly connected with Amazon Echo or Alexa-enabled devices, including Sonos One and Beam.
  • Use the Sonos app on your phone or tablet, your TV remote, keypads, AirPlay 2, or your voice with Amazon Echo and Alexa-enabled devices.
  • New APIs and deeper integrations with our platform partners let you create seamless smart home control.
  • Sonos is a system. Start with Amp and expand into more rooms with additional speakers through WiFi.
  • Sonos regularly updates with new features, voice services, and API integrations, so your options are always up to date and improving.


Availability


General availability on February 5, 2019 for $599 USD (£599 GBP, €699 EUR). Early access for installed solutions professionals on December 1 in the United States and Canada. Sign up to be notified of availability on Sonos.com.

For more details, check out our blog post on the Sonos Amp here.

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    John B
    September 12, 2018
    @flyingpadrejr. I am a bit confused by your post. The Amp drives passive speakers. Sonos speakers are powered so using them as speakers with the Amp makes no sense. I am not sure if that is what you are suggesting.
    Ryan S
    Ryan SAuthor
    Retired Sonos Staff
    September 12, 2018
    Those Play:5s (assuming they're the second generation Play:5) could be used as the rear surrounds for a single Amp, but not as front right and left channels. When used as the room coordinator for a home theater, Amp operates as left, right, and phantom center channels, with up to four passive speakers connected to its amplifier. The unit itself has left and right channel outputs, in addition to the subwoofer output.

    Trueplay can currently be used with Amp in two setups:
    1. When it is operating as the surrounds for a Beam, Playbar, or Playbase.
    2. When the Amp is configured on its own with the Sonance speakers we're working with them to produce.

    While this may change in the future, these are currently the only two ways to use Trueplay with the Amp.
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    flyingpadrejr
    Prodigy I
    September 12, 2018
    Hi John, thanks for your reply! Now I am also a bit confused 🙂 I am a technical layman here and don’t own the current amp. So I am basing my ‘insights’ on what I am reading here and in reviews.

    I thought I had understood that you could also use the amp in connection with Sonos speakers? At least, I am reading stuff like ‘use your passive speakers as fronts and throw in a pair of ones for surround experience’ and ‘you can use amp with any type of sonos speaker to get ghost 3.0 experience’. But if I have understood this wrong and you can only use with passive speakers, please let me know.

    I know that in principle it makes no sense to combine the AMP with sonos speakers brecause they are powered on their own. However, the purpose of using AMP in my home set up would be creating (ghost) 3.1 effect instead of 2.1 and potentially having a second AMP that would allow to have surround effects via sonos ones, while continue using my play5’s as fronts. If this makes no sense at all - please tell me.
    flyingpadrejr
    Prodigy I
    September 12, 2018
    And now I read Ryan’s response. That is clear - I had understood differently that you could (also) use Sonos speakers as separate fronts if the rears were wired to AMP. I’m sure I read that in this thread so more people might be confused here 🙂 In any way, no AMP for me then, because useless. I’ll just keep hoping that someday Sonos will produce a center and you can use seperate speakers as front left and right.
    John B
    September 12, 2018
    Well, useless for you possibly. I shall be at the front of the queue. New Sonos Amp and existing passive speakers at front, Play:1s for rears, plus Sonos Sub. But I suppose it depends where you start from. I have everything except the Amp.
    flyingpadrejr
    Prodigy I
    September 12, 2018
    Yes, I meant useless in my set-up. Happy for you and of course cool to use with passives if you have them 🙂
    John B
    September 12, 2018
    Yes, I meant useless in my set-up. Happy for you and of course cool to use with passives if you have them :-)And I hope you get what you are looking for - it is a fairly frequent request
    Peagle
    Peagle
    Enthusiast II
    September 12, 2018


    Trueplay can currently be used with Amp in two setups:
    1. When it is operating as the surrounds for a Beam, Playbar, or Playbase.
    2. When the Amp is configured on its own with the Sonance speakers we're working with them to produce.

    While this may change in the future, these are currently the only two ways to use Trueplay with the Amp.

    This is incredibly disappointing. Was hoping to be able to use trueplay with my speakers. One might jump to the cynical conclusion that your collaboration with Sonance is why this feature isn't included.

    However I know there could be a perfectly good reason for this and would love to hear it.
    Ryan S
    Ryan SAuthor
    Retired Sonos Staff
    September 12, 2018
    This is incredibly disappointing. Was hoping to be able to use trueplay with my speakers. One might jump to the cynical conclusion that your collaboration with Sonance is why this feature isn't included.

    However I know there could be a perfectly good reason for this and would love to hear it.

    It's actually quite the opposite. This is possible because of our partnership with Sonance. We have more data and information about the speakers themselves, and the variables involved, we will be able to properly use Trueplay with them. These are speakers that are being produced with Trueplay and the Sonos Amp in mind, as opposed to any other third party speakers out there.

    You will be able to use Trueplay with those speakers you have and the Sonos Amp, but only if you're using those speakers as surrounds with a Beam, Playbase, or Playbar. And the tuning is more about finding a happy medium with the variables we're able to adjust.
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      Peagle
      Peagle
      Enthusiast II
      September 12, 2018
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      It's actually quite the opposite. This is possible because of our partnership with Sonance. We have more data and information about the speakers themselves, and the variables involved, we will be able to properly use Trueplay with them. These are speakers that are being produced with Trueplay and the Sonos Amp in mind, as opposed to any other third party speakers out there.

      You will be able to use Trueplay with those speakers you have and the Sonos Amp, but only if you're using those speakers as surrounds with a Beam, Playbase, or Playbar. And the tuning is more about finding a happy medium with the variables we're able to adjust.

      Thanks for the answer. Hard to swallow though given other manufacturers have room tuning for third party speakers and these guys aren't in Sonos league in terms of software and development. So as a Sonos customer this doesn't pass the smell test imo.

      Anyway I'm still looking at the amp positively however.
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