SonosPort - The Versatile Streaming Component For Your Stereo Or Receiver

Works great

The SONOS port (which replaces and costs much more than their older Connect) is designed to be a hub or bridge to or among other SONOS products (primarily speakers). It is wicked easy to install and configure with the SONOS app (I used an iPhone but it works equally well with Android).BUT...(1) It is expensive to a tool that does only one thing.(2) Configuring the source that one outputs into the SONOS port depends on the way that source is defined and SONOS only tells you which ports to use for input and output and to push the button to link to a Newtork or Bluetooth.(3) For making an AV/Stereo receiver work with SONOS port you will need either good documentation from the manufacturer of the source or some kind citizen in a support grou[ who has been there and done that.(4) It took me several hours a day for 5 days to make it play nicely with my Onkyo 6100 A/V receiver, with ZERO help from Onkyo.(5) Now that it is set up and working, it is great.So, check in advance that you have the information about configuring your source.

Great when it works. Just know it will probably go offline every few weeks and to get it back online usually requires a call to support. The app has been far from fixed. Everything just went offline, I was able to get the speakers back by moving the volume. The Ports, nothing. The light is green, indicating it's working, but nothing. Tried to powering off to restart, nothing. Another fun call to support. I wish a company would integrate Sonos products, so I could never use their app again. They keep claiming they have fixed the app, if this is their idea of fixed, they need to go to the corporate graveyard.

Best audio purchase I have made in a long time. Easy set up. The thing I like about it the most is everyone in the family can have their own catalog of music list. You also have access to everyone play list. I mostly sink it to my Spotify account which works great.

The Sonos Port is the most recent addition for integrating a pair of KEF LS50W.On the plus side stands the easy setup and integration including the passthrough volume control. Beyond that, it becomes a matter of preferences, and this is where the port lacks, significantly.Quality:The port rattles inside, likely a part/screw became loose, yet it works fine.The RCA interconnector cable that comes in the box is a disgrace for that price tag, and for Sonos' carefully created image to care about the "best music reproduction". The same for the power brick, the cheapest option on the market - neither are shielded which is really strange for a wireless system that should try to eliminate any wireless noise pollution. Obviously that's not one of Sono's concerns, or just makes the case that shielding is obsolete for audio interconnections and sources? Boy, this would send a whole industry into a downward spin :DSignal control:No option to disable DSP and EQ. The EQ options can be left on neutral, but I would much prefer a guaranteed bypass function that disables all sound processing (except time adjustment for multiroom streaming) to enjoy an uncolored sound experience when connected to another amplifier (after all that's the main purpose of the Port).Conclusion:Bottom line, the Sonos Port is a necessity for Sonos owners to integrate any 3rd party equipment but it feels cheap and quickly thrown together.In my seven years of Sonos ownership, this is the first time I am actually starting to question the value of the ecosystem, or rather the approach (the built quality of Sonos and the Sonos AMP are absolutely fantastic).The only way to evaluate and answer this is an in-home evaluation of other streaming solutions.

The media could not be loaded. Setting up a record player is not easy for a teenager with your adult existing Sonos speakers and sound bar. Buy the record player. Determine if you have a built in pre amp or not. If it does have a preamp it will have a switch on the back that says phono or line. Switch it to line and directly hook up the record player to the port. Use the Sonos app to set up and press play. I just saved you money and weeks or research.

Great way to integrate a 2 channel system into a Sonos environment. I use the RCA digital out to connect to an Aesthetix Romulus DAC, analog RCA out goes to preamp to use when the DAC is off. I also connect the record out of the preamp to the RCA in to dispute whatever is on the 2 channel system throughout the Sonos environment. Obvious connection points but some folks like the details. With this setup I can listen to the same music on the deck via the Sonos move as I have on the main 2 channel system. If the music is recorded well it sounds good via the Port. Not as good as it would directly through a high quality DAC but very useable.

The Sonos Port stop working about 3 weeks ago. I got customer support from Sonos to give us an RMA, because the product is defective. We were also informed that an email with a return label will be coming at a later date. We have never received the return label and were told not to just ship it to the Sonos headquarters. That said I have no confidence that we will ever get this resolved.Dr Bob H