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I have recently moved house and setup my system the same as I had it before but now I have a delay and poor sound quality. I have a record player going into a preamp going into a play 5 through the line-in port.Now I have about a 1 second delay and after about 5 seconds of the record playing the sound quality drops and goes a strange bass distorted quality. When I play through the play 5 without the record player there is not a problem with the sound quality. The only other thing I done was update the play 5 when a setup the system in the new house. 

What model turntable are you using? In the Sonos app under System Settings, do you have Audio Compression set to Uncompressed?


Physically moving a turntable gives plenty of scope for things to go out of kilter. The Play:5 is fine for all other sources. I suspect the turntable. 


What model turntable are you using? In the Sonos app under System Settings, do you have Audio Compression set to Uncompressed?

What model turntable are you using? In the Sonos app under System Settings, do you have Audio Compression set to Uncompressed?

I have a Project Essential 3 turntable and set to automatic. I think it must be something to do with the turn table.


Physically moving a turntable gives plenty of scope for things to go out of kilter. The Play:5 is fine for all other sources. I suspect the turntable. 

Yes that’s what I am thinking, just re-calibrated the table but still got the same problem.


Also check the Play 5’s line-in level incase it got reset, normally for a Turntable needs to be 9 or 10


What model turntable are you using? In the Sonos app under System Settings, do you have Audio Compression set to Uncompressed?

What model turntable are you using? In the Sonos app under System Settings, do you have Audio Compression set to Uncompressed?

I have a Project Essential 3 turntable and set to automatic. I think it must be something to do with the turn table.

I suggest setting Audio Compression to “Uncompressed” for the best audio quality along with @Belly M’s suggestion of adjusting the Line-in Source Level higher. Also set Audio Delay to Low (75 ms).