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Can I connect DJ mixer to Sonos Play 3?

  • August 17, 2023
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I am a pub quizmaster

I usually connect to pub systems from a little audio mixer INTO which I feed my music player and microphone and connect OUT from that usually via RCAs or XLRs to the pub’s amp.

A new pub want a quiz night but the pub has 2 x Sonos Play 3 speakers.

We cannot see how to connect to this.

  1. Is there a simple solution?
  2. Can we connect our mixer to the Sonos somehow?
  3. Will there be any kind of delay? A quick look at some other posts seemed to suggest that Sonos doesn’t really work in the normal way and there will always be some kind of delay from the a mic that gets plugged in?
     

     

Best answer by melvimbe

This isn’t possible as the Play:3 does not have any aux inputs.  If you added one of the Sonos products that does have an aux input, there will be a delay.   Sonos simply is not a designed to be a PA system.

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melvimbe
  • melvimbe
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  • August 17, 2023

This isn’t possible as the Play:3 does not have any aux inputs.  If you added one of the Sonos products that does have an aux input, there will be a delay.   Sonos simply is not a designed to be a PA system.

Danny
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Stanley_4
  • Stanley_4
  • Lead Maestro
  • August 18, 2023

That “input connector” you see is really a mounting screw.

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  • dj sudo
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  • August 19, 2023

not to mention the ramp time. i tried it just to experiment for you, and the latency/buffer is just too high. meaning you hit cue, and 4-5 seconds later you hear cue.

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  • controlav
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  • August 19, 2023

not to mention the ramp time. i tried it just to experiment for you, and the latency/buffer is just too high. meaning you hit cue, and 4-5 seconds later you hear cue.

You can reduce the latency to 75ms but likely still too long for live use.

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