Sonos Amp
Sonos has been focused on all-in-one streaming speakers for so long, it’s easy to forget that it started out building devices designed to work with other hi-fi kit. In fact, so long has it been since the company’s Connect products (the Connect and Connect:Amp) were lavished with any attention, we were fairly sure that chapter in the company’s history was destined to stay in the past, with the present and future dedicated to super-simple and convenient one-box solutions. Well, more fool us, because not only has Sonos finally seen fit to revisit its roots, it’s done so with the most hi-fi-like product it’s ever produced – and one that even embraces the custom install market that Sonos itself was originally conceived to circumvent. So, does that make the just-add-speakers Sonos Amp a return to the company’s roots or an about-turn in approach? Honestly, it doesn’t really matter. What matters is that it’s the best-sounding, most serious and yet most flexible Sonos product yet. Pri...