Ubiquiti PowerAmp kills the Sonos Amp! Lets set one up!

[@jj-icejoe6642]

Spotify only ? Audio quality ? Bitrate ? Audio format ? Price ???

[@binyominkramer1541]

Yea pls tell us

[@LagniappeIT]

Spotify is all I use but it also supports apple play. Those work fine but I don't see any other options. For Audio Quality I feel like the speakers have more impact than the amp, that being said this will output more power than the Sonos amp. But im not sure that actually helps as much as just getting better speakers. While Sonos does 125W per channel at 8 ohms Ubiquiti does 130W per channel at 8 ohms or 260W at 4 ohms. Ubiquiti also supports Dolby Atmos and TrueHD and other surround sound formats and specs that I dont understand. As for format, It takes RCA in, HDMI in, and Spotify/AirPlay. And outputs an RCA sub with banana plug speaker ports. For price I think it was $599 USD? Hope that helps!

[@m4nc1n1]

I am a Director of IT by day and an Audiophile by night. I run all Unifi (10G) at home, so it is fascinating to me that they would get into audio. Are you into audio as well? I look forward to seeing an audio channel review of this.

[@ApexOneTech]

Good overview Brandon. Thanks! I'm looking forward to getting a few soon myself. I'm surprised it's not in the UniFi dashboard. I hope it's coming there as we definitely need complete remote access.

[@LagniappeIT]

It does make me hesitate to install this for clients because it would require that I am onsite to fix issues or change a configuration. I just cant understand why they would not use the Unifi Dashboard where literally everything else is! It would make this so much easier for me to manage for clients. We will see what they do about it in the coming months.

[@kevinstock5886]

It will be hard for them to match the number of services/integrations that Sonos has. But I hope they can do it and do it soon.

[@MiesvanderLippe]

Wish Ubiquiti made a friendly interface for re-broadcasting mDNS or whatever this is using. Same problem with running Home Assistant in a separate LAN

[@LagniappeIT]

I think that was mostly on me for having my network so locked down. I dont use wifi in my office if I can help it and the wifi I do have is locked down in several ways to prevent things like multicast. So when I tried to hardwire it I should have known my phone would have a hard time communicating with it through the wifi.

[@Sullrosh]

the amp is still new they might still add a play app to the controller

[@LagniappeIT]

I really hope so. It seems to let me select my office from Spotify even when I'm at home. But yea I wish I could manage it from the same portal!

[@YanivNahum-zg8uh]

Nice , thanks , recommend to start with the spec when comparing two devices

[@LagniappeIT]

I think I agree! Thanks for the feedback, I will give that a shot going forward!

[@enquiries.kbaphotography8501]

Daisy chain network ports

[@blord1976]

Wow, what a misleading title!! 130W vs 125W = insignificant. The total lack of apps and media choices. The difficulty in setting it up. Sonos is clearly the winner here (disclaimer: I would 100% replace my Sonos if I could find something that works as well as their hardware)

[@aklem001]

Is there an audio quality difference? I'm looking to switch as well.

[@LagniappeIT]

I don't notice an audio difference but I am not an audio person really. I will say though, that there is a power difference. I am not really sure how that effects audio quality, I will say that with wifi signals power is king so this might be a similar situation. Power Output: Sonos Amp: 125W per channel at 8 ohms UniFi PowerAmp: 130W per channel at 8 ohms, 260W per channel at 4 ohms Audio Output: Sonos Amp: Stereo UniFi PowerAmp: Stereo and dual mono sound

[@BrianCue-s3q]

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