Connecting audio-technica AT-LP120-USB turntable to Sonos system

Hi all. Shanepro here. I finally got around to trying to connect my audio-technica AT-LP120 turntable to my Sonos system via a Sonos 5 line input. I’m coming out of the turntable with its supplied cable with  left and right RCA connectors. I’ve connected it to a stereo cable, RCA (left and right) to 3.5mm mini plug that is connected to the line input on the back of a Sonos 5. The output switch on the turntable is set to “Line” and the mini plug going into the Sonos 5 is TRS (Tip, Ring, Shaft). 

My Sonos app showed the Sonos 5 as having a line input and I selected the “Turntable” label for it. I tried all input levels in the app, but could not get any sound from a record on the turntable to my Sonos system.

Any advice from anyone? And Sonos, if you are monitoring this Community conversation, please speak up.

Thanks much,

Steve Shane

Did you choose “Line in” as the source to play?

Check the following things: 

• Make sure your software is up-to-date (speaker, app and system) 
• Your AT120 (turntable) is set to “Line” out (vs “Phono” out) via the little switch on the back of the unit 
• In the app the following things are selected: 
  • Volume Limit = Off 
  • Line In = Connected
  • Source Name = Turntable 
  • Source Level = Level 10 (High) 
  • Autoplay → Autoplay room = the speaker the turntable is connected to. In this case the Play 5. Here you can auto-group rooms so that when the needle drops the line-in from the turntable takes over the group of speakers every time.

Autoplay is the step you’re likely missing… 

After that you should be rockin. If not, make sure your turntable’s pre-amp isn't messed up by direct connecting to a receiver or some other stereo device. If it works with that other source then you may need to have the input checked on the Sonos speaker. 

Hi - this is super helpful - thank you. i am now up and running, but the volume is only ever at 5 out of 10 or so. I can’t control it from my app, nor is it ever able to go very loud. 

Any ideas?

Keep having an issue using my Audio-Technica LP120XBT-USB

i have the RCA cords into a Sonos Connect

its labeled line in. When I play it the sound always drops.  It will play five minutes then drop. Or twenty seconds. 
 

not sure why it keeps dropping? 

You could play with the audio delay setting on the Port.

Unfortunately there is no delay port. 
 

and it’s not the wifi going out since other things will work

Stumbled across this thread and wanted to ask if the audio from the turntable can be managed like any other source of audio ie the room you select in the Sonos system or does it only come out of the speaker the turntable is connected to?

It is a separate input that can be sent to anywhere you choose, which does not have to be the speaker that the line in is on. 

If that’s the case it looks like the cheapest way to connect a turntable to a Sonos system is to use an Era 100. Presumably, you trade off some quality/features using this method rather than a Sonos port? 

please move into a different thread mods if you feel I’ve hijacked.