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This is basically the conversation I had with the integrator. Given this challenge and the fact I don't have any wiring on the second floor at all (4 kid bedrooms all of which have SONOS speakers today) we are thinking to keep SONOS as the audio distribution and focus the C4 build on my needs with doorbell, lighting, etc. I don't use Spotify, but the kids all use Spotify and Apple Music, so both limitations with C4 for them. I'm only using Deezer and Qobuz, so I have options

Just one. But today it uplinks a small 8 port switch back to my main switch (idf/mdf) as I have an AP and SONOS AMPs hanging off of it.

I wasn't sure how well this would integrate. Can you mix Sonos native rooms with C4 powered rooms or am I best off to leave all the amplification (wired and wireless) to the Sonos AMPs and have the C4 be the backbone and control it all? I do have some issues with the AMPs dropping out during higher bit rate streaming (Qobuz). I was hoping that the C4/Triad pieces would be able to handle that and be stable.

Yes, as my first floor (which is very open) is split between these two locations. My family room, office, sunroom, and dining rooms all run to one side of my basement, while my kitchen, eat in, master bed/bath all run to the other side. I'd want one source to be able to be played across most of these at once. I was looking at the connections on the matrix and not making sense of how to connect one source to multiple matrixes. I'm gathering from your feedback that multiple controllers would be how that is handled. It's a long run between both open spaces with just over 2000 sq ft of finished basement with drywall ceilings. Fortunately I have Cat5 run between each. But I don't think I could easily run the wires back. I will certainly ask the contractor tomorrow about how feasible pulling the wires back would be.

New to forum, first post. Have someone coming tomorrow to discuss a C4 installation in my home. What I'm trying to reconcile is how some of the wiring was done when the house was built and what can be done to make the configuration I'm thinking of work. The main issue I have is that we had wall and ceiling speakers wired for distributed audio, but each run did not home run back to a single location, they were in a weird daisy chain. This was somewhat "fixed" in that we traced all the wires, looked at all the pots controllers in the walls and managed to cut the "chain" and home run each room. However, due to the finished basement, half my rooms are home run to one side of the basement and half to the other side. In the past two years that hasn't been an issue as I was running them off of Sonos AMPs. In upgrading to C4, I am considering ditching the Sonos and going native C4, but I'd need two matrix amps in two areas of the house. SO MY QUESTION... Can you have two Martix amps and have them share the same input sources? Or is there something else that you'd do and my general lack of understanding of the C4 product line is limiting me from seeing how this works? TIA.