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jashraf
Contributor I
April 22, 2021
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Connecting a turntable - Sonos Five or Sonos Amp (with 2 x Play 3's as stereo pair)

  • April 22, 2021
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I currently have 2 x Play 3’s (in different rooms) and looking to add a turntable to setup. I thought the only way this was possible was via the Sonos Port but having looked into this a solution i believe is getting a Five and connecting via line-in. I’m just weighing up my options now. I have a few questions/concerns and would appreciate any inputs from the community! 

 

  1. If I was to bring my 2 x Play 3’s together in the same room and pair as L & R - I understand i would need a Sonos Port to connect the turntable to this. Would this give me better sound/pack more of a punch than if i was just to replace with 1 x Five? It’s an average sized living room and currently the 1 x Play 3 in there is adequate for music but i really like the idea of L & R. Could I still get the same richness of sounds from the latest tech and single speaker of the Five? 
  2. My concern on pairing the 2 x Play 3’s is that these speakers are quite old. While they work perfectly fine and use the latest S2 operating system - could these speakers get left behind in the future with updates as speakers get modernised? 

Just need to decide on whether it’s the Five or Port i bring into my setup to connect the turntable so welcome any advice. 

Thanks! 

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Best answer by Antifon

One other thing that might favour the Five - it has controls on the unit that allow volume control and the ability to Pause/Mute the whole zone. The Port has no such controls, unlike the equivalent older model that it replaced.

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lohr500
Prodigy I
April 22, 2021

That's my understanding but yet to be confirmed by anyone who has actually tried it.

Airgetlam
Airgetlam
April 22, 2021

I’d be slightly, not wildly,  concerned about the mp3 compression of the data stream, but in theory, I agree with lohr500. 

 

Bruce
lohr500
Prodigy I
April 23, 2021

It’s a good point Bruce. I need to investigate it further. The Roam specifications say it meets Bluetooth 5.0. So I was hoping that if I used a Bluetooth 5.0 transmitter then the analogue signals from the turntable’s RCA outputs would be encoded using one of the higher definition Bluetooth audio Codecs.

Ideally, as I already have a Move, it would be great if the new functionality on the Roam could be made available on the Move. But perhaps there are hardware limitations inside the Move that would prevent it from being possible.

 

Airgetlam
Airgetlam
April 23, 2021

I use Bluetooth fairly regularly in my car, and haven’t really noticed a quality issue, but I am aware that there is nominally one, and if it was apparent, would be much more likely to be heard in the more critical listening area of the home, using good speakers like Sonos. On the other hand, it’s entirely a personal thing. It may matter to some, and not to others. But having the knowledge is better than not, most often ;)

Bruce
airforceteacher
airforceteacher
Headliner I
April 23, 2021

I can confirm that Bluetooth to the Roam can bridge to the other speakers in your ecosystem.  I’ve tested it in the last hour (for another thread) by playing Amazon Prime Video on my iPad Pro, connected to my Roam via Bluetooth, grouped with a Play:1 stereo pair.  Sounds fine, no to minimal echo, and when using just the Play:1s, no discernable sync issues between mouth and dialogue. 

I totally recommend trying out a Roam for your use case using Sonos’ long return period option.

    lohr500
    Prodigy I
    April 23, 2021

    Thanks for the confirmation airforceteacher. :thumbsup:

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