Sonos ceiling speakers with vinyl ? Help
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The Sonos ceiling speakers are passive. Think "bookshelf speakers that need an amplifier". That's in essence what the £600rrp Sonos speakers are but mounted in the ceiling. You will need the speakers themselves, then speaker cables running in the ceiling void and down the wall to some accessible point. These cables will then be connected to an amplifier of some description. This could be the £700rrp Sonos amp, or any third party amplifier you might already own.
The Sonos amp has a line level input on stereo RCA (phonos) but doesn't have a built-in phono pre-amp. This means that the signal from the turntable must be equalised and boosted before it reaches the Sonos amp. Fortunately a lot of turntables come with a built-in phono pre-amp for just this purpose. Those that haven't can be used with a standalone pre-amp that does the same job.
The £600 Sonos speakers alone are useless by themselves. They won't do anything unless powered via an amp. Personally I think they're also very expensive for what they are. Aside from the pivoting bass driver and the enclosure which removes the need and cost for fire hoods, there's not a lot here that you wouldn't get a a decent 6"-6.5" in-ceiling speaker from Blu-cube for half the price. The company that makes them is called Sonance. It is a US firm that has been around far longer than Sonos, and doing multiroom audio product for longer too.
Where there is a distinct advantage with the Sonos speaker is with the Sonos Truplay app. This is their room EQ feature. It's standard on a lot of the active speakers, and the Sonos Amp has it too, but... here's the catch... Truplay only works with speakers it already knows. Unlike AV receivers which also do room EQ, and they work with any brand and model of speaker, if you want Truplay to work then you're forced to buy the Sonos in-ceiling speakers.
The Sonos amp has a line level input on stereo RCA (phonos) but doesn't have a built-in phono pre-amp. This means that the signal from the turntable must be equalised and boosted before it reaches the Sonos amp. Fortunately a lot of turntables come with a built-in phono pre-amp for just this purpose. Those that haven't can be used with a standalone pre-amp that does the same job.
The £600 Sonos speakers alone are useless by themselves. They won't do anything unless powered via an amp. Personally I think they're also very expensive for what they are. Aside from the pivoting bass driver and the enclosure which removes the need and cost for fire hoods, there's not a lot here that you wouldn't get a a decent 6"-6.5" in-ceiling speaker from Blu-cube for half the price. The company that makes them is called Sonance. It is a US firm that has been around far longer than Sonos, and doing multiroom audio product for longer too.
Where there is a distinct advantage with the Sonos speaker is with the Sonos Truplay app. This is their room EQ feature. It's standard on a lot of the active speakers, and the Sonos Amp has it too, but... here's the catch... Truplay only works with speakers it already knows. Unlike AV receivers which also do room EQ, and they work with any brand and model of speaker, if you want Truplay to work then you're forced to buy the Sonos in-ceiling speakers.
thanks for that ! Could you list the things I would need to buy please link them ? Just confused
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Ceiling speakers for music is generally crap,.just get some standmount or bookshelf speakers
Look, you haven't bothered to list the make and model of your record player - and it is a record player, not a vinyl player - so I've no idea if you need a phono pre-amp or not. Someone saying they buy vinyls and play vinyls and have a vinyl player makes them sound like a clueless hipster *****. They're records. You buy records. You play records. What the records are made out of is vinyl. It works the same for books. You buy a book. You read a book. You do no buy paper or read paper. Paper is what a book is made from. Vinyl is what a record is made from.
I've already listed what what you need besides a phono pre-amp, so what's there to be confused about?
It really is as simple as that. And no, I'm not going to bloody hyperlink them. One of then already is linked, and you know about the other. Why are you trying to waste my time? I've already given you chapter and verse on what you need and what to do.
Go to a local Sonos dealer. Quote the above gear and give him the make and model of your TT, let them work out if you need a phono pre-amp or not.