Connecting Stereo Receiver to play radio, turntable, CD player on Sonos Speakers.

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June 2, 2025
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I tried searching for the topic posted, but I couldn’t find any assistance to my specific problem.

I have a Onkyo TX-NR6100 and a Sonos Port. The setup was easy on my 20 year old Denon receiver, but sadly that died, and I saw the “Works with Sonos” on the receiver I purchased thinking it would be a simple replacement. But I cannot figure out how to get my Turntable or local radio stations to play over the ERA 300’s I have. The local radio station is important because our son has a radio show for a local radio station that doesn’t have any sort of app or live streaming, we would like to stream it so we don’t have to listen to it on a little portable radio, or buy anything else.

My current setup from a search is as follows:

Port input connected to Zone2 Output
Coax Digital in port connected to Coax Digital In on the Receiver
Turntable connected to CD
Zone 2 is turned on
Coax Digital is set to CD

I called Sonos support and they only showed me how to connect the turntable to the port, which I already did, but I have to have the volume at 100% to listen to the music 2 feet away from the speakers.

I appreciate any assistance.

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Best answer by buzz

I would use an analog input to the receiver. Receivers don’t always have a digital to analog converter available for the analog outputs. Also, make sure that a phono preamplifier is available unless you are using the receiver’s Phono input.

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jgatie

When I connect the turntable directly to the port I can hear it playing, but it’s not amplified. so the highest sonos volume is like listening to music on 5.

This is a symptom of having the phono output on the turntable connected to the line-in input on the Port. You need to switch the turntable pre-amp (which can be internal or external) to Line output.

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nik9669a

Senior Virtuoso

Is Zone 2 an independent zone, needing its source to be selected on the Onkyo device, or does it repeat what’s playing through the main speakers? If the former, have you selected your source to play?

buzz

I’m not familiar with this receiver. Some receivers have an option for zone 2 to follow zone 1 input selection.

Airgetlam

Many receivers don’t allow an data from a digital input (like an optical port, or an HDMI port) to be carried by a zone 2 output (usually analog) , so make sure your test is from an analog (usually RCA) input.

Bruce

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ARF77Author

Contributor II

It was infact switching the digital coax to RCA.

I appreciate all the tips. Thank you.

buzz

Most of us have been there — that’s how we knew about that little RCA trick. 😁

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