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Yes, the Sonos Connect is one amazing product for the money, but as time passed and technology moved forward, Sonos felt a few tweaks could make it an even better product. Let’s now dive into the differences in the Sonos Connect and the Sonos Port.

The first is its form factor. Sonos kept the width and depth almost exactly the same as the Connect but was able to make the Port almost half the height of the Connect. In the audio and professional world, there are standards for rack mount shelf heights. If you can get something to be a height of 1U or less, you can put a lot of pieces into a small amount of space. The new Port is sized so you can fit three of them on a single 1U shelf. They are also designed to easily stack on top of each other with no heat issues if you are not using a rack in a whole-house audio system.

Following the form factor, many audio dealers had questioned why Sonos made the Connect white in color while most audio gear you see in a rack is black. The new Port is matte black in color, making it more at home in a typical equipment rack.

Sonos added more processing power inside the Port to further future proof it as who knows that what the next ten years will hold in the world of music.

The Port also got a redesign in the audio path with a 10db improvement in signal to noise ratio, making it sound better than the Connect.

A feature dealers like Audio Advice had been asking for on the Connect for years was a trigger. You may ask what in the world does an audio component need a trigger for? In the audio world, a trigger is used to turn something on. With the Connect being used in so many whole-house audio systems this means it was connected up to a power amplifier. Most power amplifiers have a trigger connection on them that will turn the amp on when it sees the trigger signal and off when the trigger signal goes away. With the Connect and whole-house audio systems, you either had to leave your power amplifiers on all the time or choose from a limited selection of amplifiers that had some kind of signal sensing. We were very pleased to see Sonos add a trigger output to the Port which makes integration in whole-house music systems better and more energy-efficient.


Voice control has become a very popular way to access music over the last couple of years. Sonos pulled out all the stops with the Port and made it compatible with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, or Apple Home Kit. All you need is a voice-enabled device in your home to set it up such as an Amazon Dot or Google Home Mini. That is a super cool new feature of the Port!

If you are an Apple fan, you probably love Airplay2 for streaming music from your phone. Sonos added support for Airplay2 with the new Port as well.

We are sure with all of these great new features, the new Sonos Port will maintain its status as our goto piece for integrating streaming music into stereo systems and putting together amazing whole-house music systems. Long live the new Port!

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