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Setup and Sound Quality


I have two Five’s and the Victrola Stream Carbon. My internet as of late has been slower and I’ve got three kids streaming massive amounts of data all the time haha so I feel like the sound quality of my setup has diminished lately. Even though I have each component plugged into the back of our router. Is there a way to hardwire each speaker to the turntable so everything isn’t reliant on our internet? TIA. 

Best answer by jgatie

Sonos plays whatever it gets, and it has no way of degrading the signal.  If the sound quality is degrading, it is being done by the turntable, so asking over at Victrola is your best bet.

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Set up the Fives as a stereo pair. Then get an RCA to 3.5mm audio cable to connect the turntable to one of the Five’s line-in ports on the back of the speaker.

In the Sonos app, set Audio Compression to Uncompressed for the best quality audio.


jgatie
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  • October 14, 2023

Sonos plays whatever it gets, and it has no way of degrading the signal.  If the sound quality is degrading, it is being done by the turntable, so asking over at Victrola is your best bet.


ratty
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  • October 14, 2023

The sound over the network wouldn’t ‘degrade’, it would drop out. And it would have to be a pretty lousy router to be incapable of handling a couple of Mbps of local traffic between its Ethernet ports. 


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  • October 14, 2023

Thank you! 


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GuitarSuperstar wrote:

Set up the Fives as a stereo pair. Then get an RCA to 3.5mm audio cable to connect the turntable to one of the Five’s line-in ports on the back of the speaker.

In the Sonos app, set Audio Compression to Uncompressed for the best quality audio.

I’ll try this, thank you. Would I still keep everything plugged in to the router?


theGSM wrote:
GuitarSuperstar wrote:

Set up the Fives as a stereo pair. Then get an RCA to 3.5mm audio cable to connect the turntable to one of the Five’s line-in ports on the back of the speaker.

In the Sonos app, set Audio Compression to Uncompressed for the best quality audio.

I’ll try this, thank you. Would I still keep everything plugged in to the router?

If you want to, but it isn’t necessary.


buzz
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  • October 14, 2023

Describe what you are hearing.

Most likely there is a mechanical issue with the turntable. If there are network communication issues with SONOS there would be obvious audio dropouts.

Check for a giant furball on the stylus.


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