Can You Pair Sonos with Echo Studio?

Sonos is known for making amazing speakers with great sound quality. Amazon Echo products are newer to the market of speakers, but Amazon has created a solid roundup of products. Both brands offer great features and sound options, and luckily you don’t have to choose between them. If you are interested in both the Sonos speakers and the Echo Studio, one question you may have is: can you pair Sonos with Echo Studio?

You can pair your Sonos speakers to your Echo speakers through the Amazon Alexa app to simultaneously stream music from both devices. To have your Sonos and Echo speakers play the same music, you need to create a group of speakers in your Alexa App.

Keep reading to learn more about Echo Studio and how to pair it with your Sonos Speakers.

Can Echo Studio and Sonos Play Music Together?

Your Echo Studio and Sonos speakers can play music together. To make your devices more compatible, the Amazon Echo App has made it easy to create groups of devices, even when those devices are not made by Amazon.

The Amazon Echo App is available for both Android and Apple and makes pairing your devices easy.

How to Add a Sonos Speaker to the Alexa App

Amazon has made it easy to pair all of your sound equipment to their app. Some of the most notable brands that are compatible with your Amazon Alexa App are:

• Bose
• JBL
• Sonos
• Klipsch
• Paradigm

To pair a speaker to your Amazon Alexa App, all you need to do is:

1. Open the app, select “Devices,” then hit the plus button in the upper right-hand corner. This will open a menu for adding new devices.
2. Select “Add Device” and then “Speaker.” This will provide you with a list of compatible brands.
3. Select your speaker’s brand and follow the in-app instructions to connect your speaker to your amazon echo app.

How to Pair Sonos Speakers with Alexa

Now that you have connected your speakers to the Amazon Alexa App, you need to create a group so all of your speakers can play at once.

1. Open the Amazon Alexa App.
2. Select “Devices” in the lower right-hand corner of the app.
3. Then press the plus button in the upper right-hand corner of the app.
4. Select “Add Group.”
5. Give your new group a name.

Then all that is left is to select the speakers you want in your group. Start with the Amazon devices, such as your Echo Studio, and then select your other speakers like your Sonos One. You have to select the Amazon device first to assign the device that will run the group. You must have an Amazon device to create a group within the Alexa app. 

How Do You Remove Sonos Speaker from an Alexa Group?

Once you have created a speaker group in the Alexa app, they are easy to edit and change:

1. Open the Amazon Alexa App.
2. Select “Devices” in the lower right-hand corner of the app.
3. Select the Device Group you want to edit.
4. Click “Edit” in the upper right-hand corner.
5. Deselect whatever device you would like to remove.
6. Press “Save” to complete your changes.

You can also use these steps to add new devices to an existing group by selecting the new device while in edit mode.

How to Combine Amazon Speakers in the Alexa App

If you are working with only Amazon brand speakers, you can combine them within the Alexa app for Multi-room Music or to create surround sound. This function currently only works with Amazon brand speakers. To play on multiple devices, including speakers not from Amazon, you will have to create a group instead.

1. Open the Amazon Alexa App
2. Select “Devices” in the lower right-hand corner of the app
3. Then press the plus button in the upper right-hand corner of the app
4. Select “Combine Speakers”

Within the Combine Speakers menu, you have a couple of different options.

• You can create a multi-room music group for music to play throughout your whole house.
• You can set up a home theater group to create surround sound for your Amazon Fire TV.
• The final option is to create a Stereo Pair where you can pair two speakers within the same room to create a surround sound speaker pair for stereo music.

Once you select what type of speaker combo you want to make, all you have to do is follow the instructions in the app to select the speakers to combine and give the new group a name so that Alexa will recognize them in the future.

Conclusion

Amazon has made it super easy to pair all of your smart speakers. You need an Amazon speaker such as the Amazon Echo Studio, but then you can pair a variety of brands, such as the Sonos One, to create an immersive sound experience.