Satellite wireless speakers to an existing amp

Yes, you can use a CONNECT to get the music from your existing amp. You would then need additional sonos speakers as your wireless speakers in the additional rooms. The additional speakers could play it's own source or whatever is on your amp as you chose. If you were thinking you could get a CONNECT and it would send audio to another brand of wireless speakers...that won't work.

You may find it more useful to use a different configuration, as Sonos sources music rather well. The audio out from the CONNECT would be an input for your AMP. Thus your speaker setup from that room plays whatever you specify in the Sonos app. Again the other satellite sonos speakers can play the same or something different. I think this where Sonos is used best. The one downside to this is that if your amp is currently used for tv sound, you wouldn't be able to play the audio from the tv to your satellite speakers.

I've never tried it, but it may be possible to connect audio in and out to your AMP, that way you could have the best of both worlds. Seems like that would create a loop though, and maybe not recommended. Maybe someone else can advice on that.

but it may be possible to connect audio in and out to your AMP, that way you could have the best of both worlds.
This can be done but depends on the amp features; what is a needed is a tape in/out pair of socket pairs on the amp. Wire the tape out to the Connect inputs and the tape in to the Connect outputs. The tape out sockets may be called REC in which case use these, and any audio in jacks for the tape in, wired to Connect outputs.
And your amp needs to have a stereo or direct feature that bypasses surround sound DSP because the latter adds delays that will cause a sync issue between the Bose speakers and Sonos wireless speakers that are grouped to play with the Connect.

Thanks for these timely responses. It appears from your descriptions that what I want to do will work fine, as my amp has the correct features as you describe them:
- Tape play (In) jacks and Tape Rec (out) jacks, neither of which are in use now
- The amp can be operated without surround. It actually has 3 modes, called "Center," (i.e., 2 speakers) "3 stereo" (i.e., left right and center speakers) and "surround" (all 5 speakers)

Oh, one other item --- my TV sound is connected to one of the inputs on the amp. It's connected to an input called "TV/VCR2" using RCA phono plugs, same as my CD player is connected. My amp does not have HDMI input, as it predates that feature. I mention this because, since it is connected that way, I don't see any reason why the TV sound can't play through the "connect" and the SONOS speakers.

Try it and let us know if it does not! You may have a sync issue with the picture and sound though.
Ideally, buy the Connect on a returnable basis.

Yes, but the sync issue probably won't be noticeable since the satellite speakers are going to be located in a different room.

I am not so sure; what when the signal is routed to the existing speakers via the tape loop?

Folks, I also have the option to route my incoming TV audio directly from my cable box into my stereo amp, bypassing the HDTV completely (I used to do that, as did many if us no doubt, before we had an HDTV). Will that in your opinion, prevent any of the potential difficulties we're talking about here? Comments?

My suggestion remains: try a Connect on a returnable basis. Sonos and many retailers offer this facility.

Agreed. Try it.

To answer you're question though, no. It shouldn't make a difference.

You could take the output from the cable box or tv into the Connect, followed by Connect to the amp. The problem with that is that you're likely going to get a significant delay between the video and audio. As well, you won't have any surround sound from the tv/cable source. So it's a bad idea...nevermind.