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need AMP assistance

  • 4 June 2022
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J

my pool house and pool area are a good 100+ feet away from my house, I currently have 2 Klipsch patio speakers and a powered sub in the pool house hooked up to a receiver. I have a Sonance Mag 6.1 I would like to add that comes with a Sonos Amp. I want to keep the existing speakers and sub and add the Sonance. Any answers I could find were I cannot add anything else to the amp, ok fine.

Do I need another AMP or can I loop the existing receiver into the amp somehow? Also, I didn’t really consider that the amp will be too far away from the house Sonos, how would I figure that out? I’m doing this myself so running the amp from the house is not an option, it’s too far.

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buzz

You may have difficulty connecting AMP to your network wirelessly at 100 feet. 

Regardless of any network connection issues, you’ll have a 75ms latency for the AMP if you attempt to play simultaneously with your current system. Your best approach would be to replace the receiver with a second AMP.

J

The amp connected so I did have some Wi-Fi getting back there already. My next less expensive thought is the Port, then I can connect the receiver and amp and use the 2 together, correct?

buzz

If PORT is the input for the receiver, the speakers will be time synced. If you attempt to use the receiver as input, perhaps for its tuner or a phono, you’ll have a sync issue.

J

Thank you, if I have to get another amp, can I connect my existing sub as the sub out on the back? I thought I read the sub out can not be used simultaneously with left and rear speakers.

J

If PORT is the input for the receiver, the speakers will be time synced. If you attempt to use the receiver as input, perhaps for its tuner or a phono, you’ll have a sync issue.

I would also not be using the tuner or record player on the receiver, I would only use the Sonos app. Would there still be a delay issue?

buzz

PORT would connect to the receiver as if PORT was a CD player and there will not be any time alignment issues unless your receiver creates one. It’s the new, high tech receivers that might introduce a delay of some sort. Old, dumb receivers will not introduce any delays. If a modern unit introduces a delay there may be a “direct” receiver setting that will eliminate the delay.

buzz

You are correct, when used as a surround amplifier, AMP’s subwoofer capability is disabled.

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