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Tomcurt
Contributor I
July 5, 2017
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Satellite wireless speakers to an existing amp

I am looking to connect wireless satellite speakers in multiple (2 or 3) additional locations in my house. My current system is a Technics surround amp with 5 channel Bose speakers and a subwoofer (not wireless). I have wiFi in the house. Can I get a device that will connect to this amp and generate a wireless signal to wireless speakers? It seems to me there are two places on my amp to which I could connect such a device: 1) the "record out" jacks (which of course is a non-amplified signal, or, 2) the headphone jack which is an amplified signal. is this what your "Connect" product does? Please advise what my options are
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    TomcurtAuthor
    Contributor I
    July 6, 2017
    Given what we do and don't want to do with the Wireless speakers, I am not concerned about delay between video and audio, nor am I concerned about not getting surround. We're looking to locate a few (2 or 3) wireless speakers around the house in order to have music --- which does not need to be in surround --- in other rooms. We have two sources of music: CD's and the variety of music channels that come with our cable TV (Optimum Cablevision) service. The TV music channels don't broadcast in surround so that's not an issue. To listen to surround sound we would locate ourselves in our "great room" when theTV and Bose surround speakers already are, and we wouldn't be using the wireless remote speakers to watch TV.

    I am learning some fascinating stuff in this discussion, by the way, and I appreciate your taking the time and thought to go over all this with me. If you have some other thoughts, pro or con, let me hear 'em!!

    Incidentally, you will note I didn't say "FM Radio" among our music sourses. The FM reception is so lousy where we live (northwestern Westchester County New York) that we don't bother, unfortunately
    Airgetlam
    Airgetlam
    July 7, 2017
    If you're not doing any TV watching with these, there's absolutely no reason not to get the Connect as Melvimbe and Kumar confirmed.

    The only concern at that point is if you're playing a CD on your amp, and feeding the data to the Sonos Connect, and thus to all the rest of the speakers, there will be that minor delay of 70ms between the sound from the amp's speakers and the Sonos speakers. If they're in different rooms, and can't be heard simultaneously, it's not an issue. I have a pair in my kitchen which occasionally have this issue when I'm watching TV, but since I can't hear the Living room at the same time as the kitchen, I basically don't notice it at all. I would suspect at some point you may end up getting rid of the amp altogether, as well as the BOSE stuff, and replacing it with Sonos gear. It's quite lovely to live without all the extra wires :)

    Bu the way, adding Sonos speakers to the system will mean that you likely can listen to your FM stations, via TuneIn, across the internet connection. And not only your local stations, but many stations around the world.
    Bruce
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