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Understand I could do own reserach but hoping those who have done these can provide answers. I currently have a pair of Sonos Five speakers and a Sub Gen 2 for music listening nicely setup - very happy although a second Sub will be even more awesome. I also have the following older gear in storage - 3x Sonos Play 5 Gen 1 (S1 app only) speakers and a Sonos Connect:Amp Gen 2 (S1/S2 app compatible) all in excellent condition.

I have a vague impression from reading somewhere that the Connect:Amp can be connected wirelessly to Sonos devices. So I wonder if below are possible:

  1. Using S1 app > Connact:Amp > wireless 2x Play 5 Gen 1 speakers + a suitable non-Sonos sub via wired sub-out
  2. Using S2 app > Connect:Amp > wireless 2x Five speakers + wireless Sub Gen 2

Reason for deploying the the Connect:Amp is I am thinking of using the line-in feature. Any help will be appreciated. 

Any Sonos device can connect to another same OS device. What can not happen is cross OS connection. So no S1 connecting to an S2. 

Does that answer your question? There’s so much data (a rarity!) that I’m not sure, but if I understand it properly, 1 and 2 will work. It may be a slight challenge when setting them up, I’m not sure. For safety’s sake, I’d unplug all devices running the ‘other’ OS while working on the other. Once you’ve got them set up, it should be fine to use the same device with two controllers, each controller would recognize its own ‘system. 

I suggest you read the information in the links below for proper guidance. FYI, I’m not disagreeing with ​@Airgetlam.

Set up a separate S1 system

Known limitations with separate S1 and S2 Sonos systems

Setup your Play:5 Gen1

I found out that the Connect:Amp and Play 5 speakers can be setup under separate rooms and these rooms can be grouped to play the same music at the same time. Not what I wanted originally but kinda do the same thing.

Yep, that’s the flexibility of Sonos. Set up different ‘rooms’ then do the whole grouping thing. Gets you stereo on all ‘rooms’. 

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