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How to design a Sonos system with CD, turntable and TV

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Hi Sonos community,

I’m setting up a home audio system from scratch. I want it to support the following audio sources:

online streaming audio (naturally)
TV
turntable
CD player

I don’t have a receiver so i was looking at the Sonos Amp. This seems to be perfect for online streaming and TV but sadly has just one input (pair of RCAs) so I can connect a turntable or a CD player but not both.

It looks like my options are:

Buy a receiver and a Sonos Port and connect all the sources, including the Port, to the receiver. I’m a little cold on this as I’ve read some bad review about sound quality from the Port (e.g here and here).
Buy a Sonos Amp and find a way to use the single input for both the CD player and the turntable, perhaps with a RCA switch (clumsy) or daisy-chaining the sources (is this even possible?).

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. it seems like I’m not trying to do anything too strange here.

Kind Regards,

Matt

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Lyricist I

A line level (tape, preferably) output on your receiver to the line in on the Port. Note that there will be a small delay on the line in, around 75ms, but if the Sonos speakers being played are in another room, you probably won’t notice.

Thanks. I have output on line 4 on the receiver. Would I use rca male to male?

Airgetlam

If that’s what the receiver is looking for, yes. The Sonos Port’s input and outputs are RCA, certainly.

Bruce

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