Sonos and wired speakers as one zone

[sioba...@gmail.com]

hi there,

is it possible that you can have wired speakers and sonos speakers working on Brennan B2 playing the same music?  Or do you have to pick speakers?

Can you group wired and sonos speakers so you pick them as one?

thanks for help in advance.

Siobain

[Bob Fishleigh]

I have a stereo pair in the family room and a single Play 3 in the kitchen. I can feed them simultaneously from within Sonos, but in the Brennan UI, under Sonos top left, apart from the Brennan speakers, I only get the choice of either the family room or the kitchen. It would be good to be able to click on FR and K and feed them all. Any chance?

[JFBUK]

Hi  Bob,

I don’t own any Sonos speakers but I thought that if you set up a Sonos group using the Sonos app then the group would appear as an output option in the UI

https://www.brennan.co.uk/itemcontent.php/content/NewSonos

John

[fred.w....@gmail.com]

No at the moment you cant have the Sonos and wired speakers in sync. I am not an expert but I do not see how you could actually achieve this given how the communication with the Sonos works.

Fred

[Steve Woolaway]

It is not possible to synchronize B2 output to wired speakers with B2 output to SONOS speakers in any configuration, because of the wifi/SONOS delay which can't possibly be known by the B2. The only practical way to achieve what you want is to abandon the wired speakers and replace with a SONOS pair.

[Colin New User]

I ran into this same problem when I bought a Brennan B2 earlier this year. I did have a moan with Brennan that their website was a bit misleading in this respect, which was accepted! I wanted to retain our old hifi separates system but replace the CD player with the B2, and have a pair of wifi SONOS ONEs in a separate room. The solution I came up with (at some cost) was to replace the old amplifier with a SONOS AMP. I link the SONOS ONE stereo pair in a 'group' with the AMP and drive the AMP with the Brennan B2. It all works very well (as long as the home router is connected to the internet!). Instead of the SONOS AMP, you could instead use a SONOS PORT between the Brennan and your current traditional amplifier. This would save around £100. There does not appear to be any noticeable latency issue with the AMP/ONE configuration.

[Bob Fishleigh]

Steve. Thank you for your comments, and apologies all round for not replying earlier via the Forum. Had some house rewiring done today so my Sonos system is.in need of reconfiguring (apparently). I will reset the whole thing, Sonos speakers, Brennan speakers et al, and report back. The system at the moment seems to have too many tails wagging dogs!