Hi Jim I just saw your enquiry. I don't have the Sonos Conect:Amp, but I do have the Sonos Connect. So I don't know how good the Connect Amp is at powering Speakers and How they would sound. I got the Connect which feeds my Arcam AVR750 receiver with a digital signal which in turn powers a 5.1 set of B&W speakers. I use the Connect with Wi-Fi and listen to streaming media from Apple Music and Amazon. There is never any buffering or dropout. It sounds surprisingly excellent with these music sources. I expected it to sound inferior to my old Logitech Transporter but it doesn't. I never got around to listening to uncompressed music on it yet which I hope should sound even better. The only drawback may be that it can't play HD audio sources by which I mean anything sampled above 48000 or 24bit. But anything at CD quality is very good.
As the Connect:Amp has its own amplification stage I can't comment on that side of things from a personal experience. I will say that my other Sonos equipment i.e.: a stereo pair of the small Sonos Play 1 speakers sound very good for their size. John -----Original Message----- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: 29 September 2016 19:21 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: SonosConnectAmp. I don t own one though I certainly will be looking at one in the coming days. The Songs connect gets good write-ups and I m looking forward to using one for two reasons, I m looking forward to having a play with the Songs App and I m looking forward to using the digital output on my system with my DAC. > On 30 Sep. 2016, at 4:16 am, Jim Noseworthy > <jim.nosewor...@compuconference.com> wrote: > > HiGang: > > > > Can anyone on this list comment about the quality of the Sonos Connect > Amp":? > > > > Thanks all over the place. > > > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
