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I have other Sonos products and just wanted to add my old (but amazing) amp and speakers to the lineup. But, Sonos wants $450 for a dressed up WiFi connection!?! My other Sonos components are pricey but have great utility and unique capabilities (Playbar, Sub, and Amp). Those three components plus a $120 switch give me home theater sound in one room plus in-ceiling speakers in 6 other rooms all synced and controllable with the Sonos app. So why the price gouging on this simple product that provides no power, no sound processing, and no sound output? It just enables casting from your phone to a component like a $40 Firestick. Seriously...not a rhetorical question. I would love an answer from Sonos. By the way, here is a workaround for anyone else that has a Sonos Amp and wants to run the same signal to old-school amps. Run the Sonos Amp output to a multispeaker switch (very cheap for 2 speaker pairs and only $100 for 8 speaker pairs), use a speaker-level to line-level converter (about $30) on one of the switch outputs, run the line level to your old system. It's kinda dumb to jack a signal to speaker level and then dump the power back down to line level, but if you save $400+, it's worth it. I'm running six sets of small in-ceiling speakers directly from the Sonos Amp on the first six of eight switch outputs and then signal level converters on the last two outputs for my two old school amps that power full-sized speakers (backyard and man-cave). I'm using existing wiring, but you could easily go wireless using the converted line-level signal and a $70 WiFi transmitter over your home network. Price check your products please Sonos. A signal level converter plus wireless transmitter is available with easy searches and almost duplicates your Port product for a total of $100. You could also have an Amp+ product that has a line out if you don't want to change your crazy Port price. I'd probably pay $150 for the plug-and-play convenience and single app control, but $450 is crazy.