It’s clever, and it makes connections in tight spots so much easier. This sounds small, but it means you can fit the wires into the screw terminals without having to reach around the Amp itself - you connect the wires first and then just plug the adapter into the Amp. The basic connectors are designed for banana plugs for a clean install, but if you’re running bare speaker wire there’s a very clever adapter that has standard screw terminals, which you then plug into the Amp. Let me just say: I love the speaker connections on the Sonos Amp. On the front, you’ve got the usual Sonos interface elements of an LED and touch buttons for volume and play / pause, while the back has RCA and HDMI inputs, two Ethernet jacks, a subwoofer output, the power connector, the pairing button, and the speaker connections. There’s a round depression on the top that adds a sense of high design, but also serves to make stacking multiple Amps easier. The Sonos Amp is a sleek, minimal black square. It does all of these things easily and with aplomb, and it firmly cements Sonos as the most flexible, powerful connected audio system available. You can rack mount it, if you are the sort of person with equipment racks in the basement. You can run giant vintage speakers with it. You can control it with Alexa (and eventually Google Assistant). You can pair it with two more Sonos speakers and a subwoofer and build a 4.1 home theater around your TV. You can use the Amp to drive a pair of bookshelf speakers. It is vastly more powerful than the Connect:Amp at 125 watts per channel, and vastly more capable, with AirPlay 2 support, HDMI input, and a huge variety of custom control settings and configurations. So Sonos is adding to the lineup with the new $599 Sonos Amp, which is a totally new design that offers unparalleled flexibility for a connected audio component. The Connect:Amp is tremendously useful, but slightly underpowered at 55 watts per channel, and the basic hardware is getting fairly long in the tooth.
#Home audio power amplifier professional#
People (and professional smart home integrators) have used Connect:Amps in all sorts of wacky ways, from driving multiple sets of ceiling speakers in mono to hacking together TV speaker setups using a box that was never designed for that. The unheralded key to that flexibility for years has been the $499 Sonos Connect:Amp, which is exactly what it sounds like: a small Sonos-connected amplifier that can drive any standard speakers. One of the main reasons to buy into the Sonos audio ecosystem instead of the smart speakers from Amazon, Google, or Apple is overall flexibility: Sonos simply makes more kinds of audio products than any of the other players, and that means you can build a relatively custom home audio system very simply.
0 kommentar(er)
