Sonos Amps Review
Credit: Sonos
Have you ever seen a cool Sonos speaker (app-controlled) and you really wanted all the features of it, but it either was out of the price range or you already had speakers for your house? Well, look no further than the Sonos Amps. It is a compact square device that you plug into older speakers using speaker wires, and then boom, it basically superpowers your speaker (or two)!
The Setup
Setup was pretty minimal, because you really just had to take it out of the box, plug it in to speaker wires, plug it in to Ethernet and that was actually most of it! To setup and control it, you’ll need the Sonos s2 app, and adding the amp was no problem. All you needed was to sign in, click add new device and follow the prompts. But if you wanted to listen to music, you need to setup some streaming services. There are over 35, so you’re bound to find something that you already have. If not, you can easily sign up. Some of our faves include Pandora (your custom radio) and Calm (meditations).
Inside the Sonos app
The Usage
In case you were wondering about audio quality, its very good, though most of it depends on the speaker itself. However, the amps do provide great audio quality. Anyways, its pretty simple to just open the app, select a service, select a song or station, and choose the speaker. If you have multiple amps, or other Sonos speakers, you can create a “group” of them, so that it plays on all speakers in that “group”. One feature I like is how you can create Sonos playlists, and they differ from normal playlists because you can add songs across streaming services. The most popular streaming services are Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music, Pandora and Amazon Music. It’s all of your streaming services, in one app. If something isn’t on Sonos, or you want to stream the audio from other media, its airplay compatible.
Great write up. Easy to use, easy to set up system that can use "older" speakers! Thanks!