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I am trying to understand minimum upgrade options on my legacy system. My configuration is 2 Sonos Play:1 speakers, 1 Sonos Connect, and 1 Sonos Connect:AMP, all currently connected via Sonos Bridge. All were purchased in 2013 except for one Play:1 that was added in 2016.

 

I am interested in utilizing the upgrade discounts to add Airplay capability. Not sure if I can mix and match old with new or if I need to upgrade everything.

 

Question: Are any of these legacy components compatible with the newer Sonos S2 iOS App?

 

According to the Sonos website, When an AirPlay compatible Sonos product is playing AirPlay audio, you can group it with any other Sonos product in your system for multi-room playback.

Question: Does that mean I could upgrade one Play:1 speaker to an Era and stream music via AirPlay to that speaker, and then group it with the rest of the legacy system (or maybe at least the other Play:1 speaker)?

 

Question: Are any of these legacy components compatible with the newer Sonos S2 iOS App?

Yes, providing the app works okay, which at the moment can be a bit hit and miss of course.
But I don’t understand - why don’t you just set them up and find out? 
(And the answer to your final question should be yes - old and new can happily co-exist, all being well…)

 

Question: Are any of these legacy components compatible with the newer Sonos S2 iOS App?

 

Question: Does that mean I could upgrade one Play:1 speaker to an Era and stream music via AirPlay to that speaker, and then group it with the rest of the legacy system (or maybe at least the other Play:1 speaker)?

Your play1 are s2 capable. But if your connect and connect:amp are from 2013 they can’t run s2. S2 is required to group with the era100. You would need to upgrade your connect amp to amp and connect to port, but then both of those air airplay capable so you wouldn’t need an era. 

A way to add airplay to your s1 system would be to add an airplay capable device to your line in on the connect and connect amp. WiiM is mentioned here quite a bit but there are others. All your devices could be grouped to play the airplay source. 

 

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