![]() Or you can schedule your Sonos speakers to start playing at a certain time, as well as stop playing at a certain time. Turn your Sonos speaker into an alarm clockĮven if you don't have Sonos speaker that has a built-in voice assistant, like Alexa or Google Assistant, you can still turn it into an alarm clock so that you can wake up to your favorite song. (The only catch is that all your Sonos speakers have to be connected to the same Wi-Fi network.) All Sonos speakers have a Play/Pause button, so this little technique will work with all Sonos speakers. Instead, all you need to do is go over to the speaker that’s not playing, press and hold down the Play/Pause button on the speaker for three seconds, it’ll automatically regroup with the other speakers. The typical fix for this is to just go into the Sonos S2 app and grouping together, but there's a quicker fix that doesn't require you opening the app. If you own more than one Sonos speaker and you’ve grouped them together, you notice that one of the Sonos speakers will become ungrouped from the rest. It effectively turns your loudspeakers into a system that works similar to one of Sonos's soundbars.The Best Active Speakers of 2022 How to regroup your Sonos speakers without the app ![]() The other difference is that the Amp supports HDMI-ARC, meaning it can replace your AV receiver and turn your passive loudspeakers into TV speakers. So while the Port is designed to be connected to a stereo receiver, which then allows you to play music on your passive loudspeakers, the Amp takes the place of the receiver - cutting out the middleman - and is able to drive the passive loudspeakers on its own. The Amp is essentially a Port with a built-in amplifier. It can also connect to a turntable with a built-in phono preamp (or a turntable with an external phono preamp) so you can listen to vinyl on your Sonos speakers. The big difference between the two is that the Port doesn’t have a built-in amp, so it’s only going to work directly with audio components and active speakers that have built-in amplification (such as powered or active speakers). There's the Port and the significantly more expensive Amp ($649). Sonos currently sells two different wireless streamers that effectively allows you to turn an old audio component into one that works exactly like a Sonos speaker. However, the Port does have a fancy new digital-to-analog converter (DAC), compared to the Connect, and supports Wi-Fi streaming like Spotify Connect and AirPlay 2 so it’s going to stream higher-resolution and all-around better sounding audio than Bluetooth. It’s true that most newer audio components have built-in Bluetooth, so simply adding “streaming” to your stereo receiver on its own isn’t actually a big feature of the Port. (My three-year-old Yamaha receiver didn’t support it, so I still have to use the receiver’s remote to switch inputs, unfortunately.) ![]() There’s a catch, however, and it’s only newer stereos and receivers that have a 12-volt trigger input. It essentially eliminates the need for you to manually turn on the receiver or stereo, or switch to the proper inputs, because everything just turns on when you start streaming via the Sonos app to stream music. Maybe the most interesting upgrade is the Port’s 12-volt trigger, which gives it (and you) a little more control of the connected receiver or amp. Sonos's Three Portable Speakers, Compared
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