ecschnei Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Hi all, Currently I have a centralized rack which doesn't make it conducive to have a record player close to either of my receivers (one for game/theater room and one for living/main room). Is there a way to put the record player in the room and run a connection to the rack and maintain high quality audio? I have not currently bought a player yet (birthday gift for my wife). Klipsch rf-82's bi-amped in living room, cables run to basement rack. I have a spare cat6 and sewell 25m fiber optic hdmi cable in place. The game/theater room I can run any cables needed if I need to put it down there. Thanks in advance and Merry Christmas everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAV Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 What quality level of turntable are you considering? Under $500 Up to $1200 Over $1200 You can do cheap wire converter, a simple balun, a balanced balun, you can digitize through a Control4 processor, you can do IP encoding... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Turntable + cat There's plenty of good audio over cat baluns, balanced and unbalanced (depending on your turntable). Note that if it's a 'true' phono output you may need a phono/turntable pre-amp even if your receiver has a phono in (you'll know when you try) Neo1738 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c4toys Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Is Dante a good application for this? Asking for knowledge of compression, encoding/decoding to digital Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Dali would work and get you good quality - but if one is looking for a 'local turntable' to be accessible in that room, it's overkill. Frankly it's sort of overkill even for a single turntable to distribute everywhere if you already have an existing system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Leeds UK Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Our Turntable is connect to Sonos for full House Audio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ekohn00 Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Look for sonus turntables? https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/vinyl-set-five-pro-ject-t1-turntable https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/22/23366547/victrola-stream-carbon-turntable-sonos-announced But the tiny part of me wonders why stream vinyl? I got a lifetime Roon for Christmas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecschnei Posted December 24, 2022 Author Share Posted December 24, 2022 (edited) All awesome suggestions. I was worried that audio over baluns would lose quality. In this scenario I feel like it would be overkill to have an amp and speakers for the turntable beside the speakers already set up in the room. I'll look into the sonos setup and baluns. @RAV I'm looking for mid-grade turntable. My receiver is a marantz, not that it matters really. Edited December 24, 2022 by ecschnei wrong contact Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 It’s a turntable….quality is limited… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnicholson Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 2 hours ago, ecschnei said: I was worried that audio over baluns would lose quality. I have a turntable in the rack in my Theater and wanted to be able to listen to it throughout the house. I plugged it into the Core5 audio-in. Core5 audio out goes into matrix which then goes into AVR (pre-processor). Honestly, I can't tell the difference between the direct analog signal path to AVR versus going through an ADC, through matrix, DAC, etc. YMMV. (As an aside, in case anyone is wondering why I didn't plug turntable into the matrix directly, it is because the Pulse Eight matrix I have can't switch analog inputs to digital outputs (even though, annoyingly, Control4 director thinks it can-- which causes glitches), and the matrix is only connected to AVRs with digital connections). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecschnei Posted December 24, 2022 Author Share Posted December 24, 2022 2 hours ago, msgreenf said: It’s a turntable….quality is limited… @msgreenf if you believe the hype, vinyl has better sound quality than cd's. msgreenf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 Regardless of opinion on how a turntable sounds, a poor cable or poor quality audio balun can still create poor sound - and in some ways this is WORSE with a phono signal. But yes feeding to a controller does work of course. But again OP was SPECIFIC in that he wanted a local turntable(s) to feed a room's a/v receiver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecschnei Posted December 26, 2022 Author Share Posted December 26, 2022 Thanks again everyone, I think I'll try some baluns first. Cheap option if it fails. Merry Christmas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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