Sonos zp120 how many speakers

There seems to be a problem serving the request at this time. Having high-quality speakers is pointless if you dont have a good amp to power them. The Sonos Connect amp was designed by the company to help bring old and used speakers to life with its advanced technology and clean power. Before purchasing one on eBay, read the following questions and answers. The Sonos Connect amp is loaded with technological features to make the user experience easier for the owner.

Check out the following features and benefits to see if the amp is right for you. The Sonos Connect provides owners with great portability thanks to a variety of features. The biggest provider for this portability is the built-in speakers. As long as you have power, you can stream music to the amplifier and play it directly from the device, preventing you from having to take speakers with you when you travel with your Sonos.

The Sonos can broadcast signal to any speakers in your home, either through cables or Bluetooth. This means families can listen to the same audio in multiple rooms in the home.

The amp can also be split into dual signals, meaning you can listen to different audio in different rooms in your home simultaneously. The Focal Custom OD are large outdoor speakers, equipped with a bass reflex port, an 8-inch fiberglass woofer, and a 1-inch aluminum inverted doom tweeter. In addition to providing independent volume control for each pair of speakers, this device prevents the impedance presented to the amplifier from dropping too low, a scenario that could damage the amplifier.

The Amp never broke a sweat driving the speakers individually selected one at a time on the Niles Audio SS-4 or all three pairs at the same time with all the speakers selected on the box.

The company recommends instead that consumers deploy one Amp for each room, and that they use the Sonos software as the speaker selector. In fact, I suspect most Sonos Amp sales will go to custom installers, just because so few people want to deal with speaker wire these days.

Michael covers the smart-home, home-entertainment, and home-networking beats, working in the smart home he built in At a Glance. Sonos Amp. Show More. Photograph by the author. Sonos Despite being passively cooled, you can stack multiple Amps on top of each other active cooling is recommended for dense rack installations.

Sonos Amp listening tests I first tested the amplifier with four very different stereo speaker pairs, one pair at a time. There is also no such thing as a regular speaker. Even those of different makes marked as the same Ohms will not present the same Ohm load to any amp across the frequency range of the sound they deliver.

Some will drop impedance to as low as 2 ohms at times imposing what could be an unsustainable load on the amp. Some will stay at the specified ohms across the frequency range, and if this is 8 ohms or above, are an easier load for any amp, not just Connect Amp.

In general adding a second pair or more to Connect Amp is inviting trouble best addressed by the impedance matching device referred above by Lucid. Unless you are very sure that both pairs present 8 ohms all the time to the amp. Unless the speaker is playing only the exact frequency where the impedance drops to 2 or 3 Ohms then it's not going to be an issue. Music contains lots of frequencies all playing at the same time. Some will have a low impedance, others a high impedance, and some will be in the middle as the speaker plays them.

My understanding is different. Frequencies don't have impedances attached to them as the quoted seems to say. Different speakers however need different amounts of current to deliver them as they arise in the music and those speakers that need more current will drop impedance to draw more current than those that do not need that additional current to play the same music content, and will not so drop their impedance.

Which is why the latter are easier loads for any amp, other things being equal. You're quoting out of context. Read the first para; I didn't say that the frequencies have impedances attached to them. The impedance is the speaker's response to playing music at a specific frequency.

That's what an impedance curve is. It's a frequency sweep and the speakers response. You can say that the impedance drop to a low of X Ohms at Y frequency, but you can't then say that this makes it an X Ohms impedance speaker.

Put it another way, take a random group of people and then count their teeth. Some have 32, some have their wisdom teeth too so they have 36, others have lost a few teeth. Then you find the one person with say 6 teeth. That person has the fewest teeth in the group.

Now, would you say that the entire group has only 6 teeth each based on that one individual? This is how the averaged impedance works when playing a broad spectrum of frequencies music rather than the specific frequency a single test tone that excites the lowest impedance response. The speaker impedance drops to a low of say 3. Depending on the rest of the curve then the manufacturer might say that this is a 6 or an 8 Ohm impedance speaker.

Whether a speaker is a difficult load for an amp depends on a how much of the frequency curve stays at a low impedance, and b what's happening to the phase curve at the same time. For example, this is the impedance curve for a Dyne Audio Excite speaker Although the impedance drops to a low of roughly 5 Ohms at approx Hz the rest of the impedance curve spends most of its trace above 6 Ohms. This speaker isn't a particularly difficult load for the amp based on what's happening with just the impedance curve.

Now compare and contrast with the Revel Ultima This speaker presents a minimum 3. The curve stays at a low Ohms reading from about 20Hz all the way to approx Hz. Based solely on the impedance curve then this is a much more challenging load for the amp. Quoted Impedance and the Nominal Impedance value are fairly blunt tools when dealing with a speaker's response.

A Frequency response curve would be better, but if that's all we have then that's all we have. We have to take it as well in the context of the amp being used to drive the speakers. In this case it's a switch-mode amp referred to as digital, but not really digital which is capable of doubling its power at half the Ohms rating. From the OP's point of view the question has been asked how many "regular" speakers can the Sonos Connect Amp drive, but regular hasn't been defined as you correctly pointed out.

My reply has put some figures to the speakers if they're 8 Ohm and what might happen. I've also counselled against using anything lower. That's about as much as can be reasonably achieved given the lack of source information. Acknowledgement to Stereophile mag for their images. Since you know the subject, and you know Stereophile it will be helpful if you pull similar graphs from the Atkinson reviews of the zp available there online, and summarise your interpretation of these for an insight into Connect Amp quality.

As compared to any other good quality modern day 50 wpc into 8 ohms stereo amp. I wish I had the amount of free time you think I do, ha ha ha : What are you hoping such a comparison would reveal? That a Connect Amp is just as good. You and I have already had this conversation. However, if you want to do the comparison then try something like the Rega Brio. Atkinson tried it with a wide range of gear including some very expensive speakers and it acquitted itself admirably in his view.