Hi. I've been on the fence regarding jumping into the Sonos ecosystem. I generally have apple products but have a couple google homes and a few(4) chrome cast audios to hack together whole house music. Controlling it through the google music/home app kinda sucks to be honest and doesn't pass the wife reliability test.



I have at least 3 existing speaker systems that I need to drive separately from whatever smart(ish) speaker a system has but that should integrate for a whole house experience. In addition to that need 3(ish) separate speakers for Kitchen/Dining Room/Bedroom/ and 1 or 2 places more maybe(ish).



I would lie if I said I wasn't waiting to see how HomePod shook out. Then my dad got me a Sonos 1 last week as a birthday gift. Its cool and I might take advantage of the $350 for 2 more Sonos One deal but here is my dilemma. Those three places where I have receivers powering some bad ass speakers (Family Room, Back Yard/Deck, Garage/Driveway). Google was cheapest because of the Chromecasts but that experience isn't so great. Apples HomePod honestly costs more than I really need to spend for something next to my bed and peppered throughout the house. Sonos One is a good balance of price/quality for those places but the Connect price. Yikes. Is there a cheaper way to have my existing receiver/amp based systems catch Sonos music? I don't need to plug in a turntable or anything like that (I assume the inputs on Connect are for that?). I just need to pass the digital signal to my Pioneers input. This is one place where the apple comes out ahead price wise for me as I can get an apple TV pretty cheap (assumption is airplay 2 actually comes out and works) and pass the audio through that. And I already have 2 of them sooo... The price of adding 3 connects relative to what I need them to do is really the only thing keeping me on the sidelines with sonos. Is there something I am not seeing to help me solve the existing receiver issue?



Thanks!