Port and Move

That should work just fine. Odd that the sounds isn’t good. does the TT sound good when you just play into into speakers without Sonos?

It sounds better than on the Sonos Move. For example, I played a Springsteen album and it’s just a tad weaker. Maybe I need a new stylus?

You possibly just need to set the line-in ‘source level’ higher in the Ports ‘room’ settings in the App (‘Settings/System/[Port Room Name]’) - see if that helps to improve things.

I’ll try the ‘source level’ adjustment tomorrow and let you know what I find. (The whole settings stuff is new to me, I’m still getting used to it)

Thanks for the advice Ken Griffiths.

Just set it to the highest setting/level whereby at full volume you do not hear distortion from its output to the Move. It should hopefully improve things for you.

Worked like a charm sir!

I’m getting the hang of the Sonos App and the myriad of settings.

Spinning The Boss’s “The River” double album - sounds great!

🙏🏼

Stylus assemblies have some polymers inside that degrade over time. An ancient cartridge will have degraded in storage. Also, stylus wear can be an issue. A rule of thumb is to replace after 1000 listening hours, but playback degrades slowly with each play, Some very fussy listeners will replace after 500 hours, while not so fussy listeners will ask if they should replace the stylus after having used it for several thousand hours. A badly worn stylus will result in excessive record wear.

Stylus assemblies are temperature sensitive and will sound quite different in a cold winter room vs a warm summer room. I’ve had some odd experiences in a room where the turntable was in the cold air path of an air conditioner. When the cold air was circulating, the turntable sounded different.

I’m not a fan of very cheap cartridges. And, similar to mounting a random something 14” and round on a tire rim will not likely result in excellent driving performance, it is important to use the correct cartridge-arm pairing.

Finally, there is some skill required when mounting the cartridge in the arm. Very little is written about this, but correct mounting is critically important. Very small location and angle adjustments result in critical differences for fussy listeners.