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Turntable >> Line-in >> Era 100 >> ??? >> Ace

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As per the title I tried to get the audio from my turntable connected to an Era 100 over to the Ace but neither is the Ace even listed as a device to handover to nor can I handover from Era 100 to my Beam Gen2 and try to do a TV Swap? Am I doing something wrong or am I missing something?

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Mr. TAnswer

TV Audio Swap only works for “tv audio” (ie. audio received via HDMI ARC/eARC or optical) from a compatible Sonos soundbar.

You are not able to swap a music stream from any Sonos device to Ace.

In order to hear your turntable on Ace, you could connect your turntable to a Bluetooth transmitter, then connect Ace to the BT TX.

Mr. TAnswer

TV Audio Swap only works for “tv audio” (ie. audio received via HDMI ARC/eARC or optical) from a compatible Sonos soundbar.

You are not able to swap a music stream from any Sonos device to Ace.

In order to hear your turntable on Ace, you could connect your turntable to a Bluetooth transmitter, then connect Ace to the BT TX.

tschneiderAuthor

Avid Contributor III

This product is getting less interesting by the minute :/ Thanks for the answer 👍🏽

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Rhonny

Prodigy III

Not the Ace’s fault really. If you wanted to listen to any turntable on any Bluetooth headphones you’d need a Bluetooth transmitter somewhere in the chain.

You should see the Ace simply as Bluetooth headphones that can also access the TV’s sound via a Sonos soundbar. That is it. That’s all they were ever marketed to be.

Mr. T

There was certainly an expectation from many users that Ace would be just another “room” in the app before the actual tech specs/ability were confirmed.

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Rhonny

Prodigy III

That’s true. And it disappointed many. But I suppose my point is that no-one buying Ace is being hoodwinked that they perform any other function that those described.

So when they are cited as getting less interesting by the minute, it suggests a degree of assumption was employed before they were bought.

tschneiderAuthor

Avid Contributor III

I guess the expectations were so high because Sonos was basically synonymous for allowing to "let the sound follow you through every room", well it was their big mantra for a long time and so with the Ace there is basically none of that functionality available. The Ace essentially acts as a glorified and slightly pimped (Audio Swap) Bluetooth headphone, with a very hefty price tag attached to it. It sits at a very strange place, at least for me, inside the whole Sonos ecosystem.

Airgetlam

I certainly held those expectations before Sonos announced and began marketing the Ace headphones. Since the announcement, however, it was clear that these were a different type of device from their normal speakers, and their marketing has backed that up. I still own and use a set of Ace headphones, they’re better than the older set of BOSE headphones I have.

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HotSpringZ

Lyricist I

I have a U-turn tt connected via Line-in to an era 100 speaker. I have a gen 2 beam which plays music from the tt via the connected era 100 (as well as 2 other era 100 and a Move). Will Ace connect to one of these?

Mr. T

I have a U-turn tt connected via Line-in to an era 100 speaker. I have a gen 2 beam which plays music from the tt via the connected era 100 (as well as 2 other era 100 and a Move). Will Ace connect to one of these?

No, as per the answer already stated for this thread.

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Rhonny

Prodigy III

I have a U-turn tt connected via Line-in to an era 100 speaker. I have a gen 2 beam which plays music from the tt via the connected era 100 (as well as 2 other era 100 and a Move). Will Ace connect to one of these?

No - the Ace headphones receive music via Bluetooth. The Era 100 and the Move also receive audio by Bluetooth - neither speaker sends audio by Bluetooth so the Ace cannot get music this way from Sonos speakers.

The only way the Ace gets any audio from a Sonos speaker is when TV audio to a Sonos soundbar is swapped to be sent instead to the Ace, by WiFi.

The definitive way to look at it is: if Sony, or Beats, or Samsung, or Sennheiser headphones can’t do it, then nor can the Ace. Unless you’re watching TV...

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