![]() There’s AirPlay 2 and Chromecast Built-in support, but there’s also a Bluetooth connection, giving the Music Amplifier more options than the Wi-Fi/ AirPlay 2-only Sonos Amp. It’s a predominantly Wi-Fi-based system (with Ethernet jacks for wired use). The whole system is controlled via the Bose Music app, which gives you everything you need to run the Music Amplifier on its own or as part of a multiroom setup, including access to streaming music services like Spotify, Amazon Music, Pandora, and Deezer. You can only use one, and it must be wired to the Music Amplifier - wireless connections are not supported. You can only use the company’s Bass Module subwoofers. You can also connect a subwoofer, but Bose is very restrictive. Sonos’ new Era 100 and Era 300 wireless speakers go all-in on spatial audio and Bluetooth Why Sonos Era 300 buyers should switch to Amazon Music Sonos could soon be the soundtrack for your next shopping trip On the Sonos Amp, you twist together the respective negative and positive wires of each channel, then wire them into the Amp’s single set of terminals. The Sonos Amp can do that too, but the Bose Music Amplifier makes it a little easier by giving you discrete speaker wire modules for each set of wires. ![]() With 125 watts per channel (same as the Sonos Amp), there should be plenty of power for two sets, as long as you pay attention to the impedance requirements: with a single set, no less than 4 ohms will work, but if you throw in that extra set, all four speakers should be no less than 8 ohms. In fact, as long as you don’t mind listening to the same thing, you can power two pairs of wired speakers from the Music Amplifier, like a set of ceiling speakers and a set of bookshelf units. Like the Sonos Amp, the Bose Music Amplifier is an all-in-one wireless audio component for those who already own (or intend to buy) a set of wired speakers. One look at the Music Amplifier and its price ($699) and it’s immediately obvious that it has been designed as a direct competitor to the $699 Sonos Amp, as the similarities are unmistakable. It’s hard to say why the company decided to take such a stealthy approach, except maybe it wanted all of the attention on its Smart Soundbar 600, which hit retail at the same time. With no fanfare of any kind, not even a press release, Bose launched its Bose Music Amplifier in October 2022 - and we only just became aware of it.
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