The Connect is meant to be used with an existing stereo or powered speakers and the Connect Amp as the name implies has a built-in amplifier. It’s actually a good one also, a 110 Watt (55 Watts per channel) Class D amplifier and it has traditional speaker posts so you use any bookshelf or tower speakers you have and connect them with regular speaker wire. It also has a single RCA output which you can use to connect a powered subwover if you happen to have one. The Connect and Connect Amp both have an RCA input and since the Connect is meant to be used with an existing amplifier or receiver it has 3 different output options, RCA analogue and also Toslink Optical as well as Coax Digital. The nice thing is that you can have it connected to an amplifier or receiver via one of the digital connections and still run an RCA cable to a set of powered speakers in another room or you could use one of Sennheiser’s wireless headsets with it. These headsets usually have a base station which is used to charge the headset and also is the transmitter. The less expensive ones use an analogue RCA connection and work on 900 MHz, the more expensive ones which can cost upwards of $300 or $400 can be connected via Toslink Optical and the connection between the base station and the headset is fully digital so the sound quality is awesome. Currently this is the only way you can use Sonos with a headset unless like me you have one of the original Play 5 speakers which has a 3.5mm headphone jack and you don’t mind using a wired headset. OK, so I guess you can use a bluetooth transmitter as well and then use a bluetooth earpiece or headphone, but I tried this back in January and found that even with an expensive bluetooth transmitter this was at least to me not satisfactory since there were always little drop-outs etc.
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Fanus Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 2:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Sonos and airplay? Hello Sieghard Thanks for the explanation. Currently I have problems with internet in that the moment I open webpages lots of stuff pop up and I cannot close those, although I tried many things, so I cannot do any searches. So my question is: what is the difference between the Sonos Connect and Sonos Connect Amp and is there a huge price difference? Regards Fanus From: Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2018 7:04 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: Sonos and airplay? That is at this point up to Apple. It is Airplay 2 which Sonos will support and while it was briefly available in one of the earlier iOS 11.3 betas I think in February it was pulled when the following beta came out and it was not put back by the time iOS 11.3 was released. Airplay 2 is also what will enable multiple homePods to be used together so until Apple gets it right Sonos can’t enable it, either. Having said this you could always add Airplay to Sonos by spending $50 or so on an Airport Express and provided you have something like a Connect or Play 5 which has a Line In port. You would simply connect the Airport Express to the Line in port of the sonos and Airplay to the Airport Express. I set this up years ago and it works perfectly well. Of course I am not saying it is what I recommend at this point since I am pretty sure Airplay 2 will come soon. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Fanus Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2018 8:37 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Sonos and airplay? Hello Marie I heard that rumour a while ago and I would also love that. Regards Fanus From: Marie N. 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