Adding a turntable to a Sonos system to play vinyl has never been easy, but the Victrola Stream Carbon might just be the best way we've seen yet for doing it.
Victrola Stream Carbon MSRP $700.00 Score Details DT Recommended Product “For Sonos owners looking to add vinyl to the mix, the Victrola Stream Carbon might be the turntable you've been looking for.” Pros Cons I’ve got a confession to make: although I consider myself a “vinyl guy,” I’ve owned several Sonos speakers long before I ever owned a turntable. And I still love them.
The turntable on its own is easily comparable to many mid-level turntables that would go for $300 to $500. The dense MDF plinth offers some decent anti-resonant properties and some substantial weight at just over 13 pounds, adding to its stability when put down on its rubber, vibration-absorbing feet. Like most turntables these days, assembly is easy even for the uninitiated, and the instructions are well laid out in the Victrola Stream app.
I started with my main Sonos Beam soundbar, Sub, and Play:1 setup that I have configured as a surround-sound pairing in my basement TV room that I have labeled “Basement.” With the Autoplay setting activated, when you move the turntable’s tonearm over and put the needle on the record, the Stream Carbon automatically connects to your selected default Sonos speaker or group and starts playing.
To make this possible, the turntable has an analog-to-digital converter that converts the analog signal from the vinyl record at, Victrola tells me, 24-bit/48kHz. But I’m not here to get into the weeds on all that — the bottom line is that the Stream Carbon sounds really good, which I’ll get into next.
Music to my ears With the app configured, it was time to spin some vinyl. I usually start with my go-to, Radiohead’s OK Computer, to get a baseline because I know exactly how it should sound.
Plays nice with traditional systems If you already have a more traditional system, like a receiver and a set of speakers that you love, but have always wanted to also listen to vinyl music through that system and your Sonos system at the same time, you can with the Stream Carbon.
But even though you could, you shouldn’t buy the Stream Carbon as an entry into a larger world of vinyl discovery. Its lack of a pure analog path from stylus to output keeps it from fulfilling a truly traditional analog vinyl experience. However, as a way of bringing vinyl into the wireless world of Sonos products, the Stream Carbon is the easiest option around.
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