Guidance for Audio Set-up Wanted

YYTIN

Hi

Don’t want to hijack this thread but I do have a couple of Sonos using some streaming but way more occasionally than I want too as I’m used to play my cds. And my denon cd player ended up dying after 25 years of great service and multiple moving in and out and I never got myself to transfer all my cds to my computer.
Do you guys know if I can easily add/connect à CD player to the Sonos ? In this case I should buy one.
And/Or maybe I should fully step up in the new world and finish completing my set up with more Sonos all over the house… and get use to streaming…

Oh and to the OP question, I am not qualified as you can see but I can confirm that Sonos works great and is effectively easy to use /set up with streaming and my experience with Denon is clearly of exceptional quality and durability.

bombaywalla

I also have a really expensive CDP that is working but does skip tracks reasonably often. I sent it in for repairs which cost me a pretty penny but I love this CDP. It's in a box right now as i dismantled & sold off my audiophile setup. But I got insulting offers for my CDP so I held onto it.
My CDP uses the VRDS system from TEAC & they refuse to sell replacements to the public since they use them in own Esoteric brand CDP.

cvalue13

I have a rather high end CD player that for 8 years has been a very expensive door stop. (I can’t bring myself to throw it out, despite knowing it will never again operate.)

cvalue13

Worse: Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista SACD player, released 2003. I bought it second-hand, so luckily didn’t pay anywhere near the original $6,500 MSRP. When the transporter conked out circa 2014, it didn’t take much googling to learn that it was a common failure and all owners had learned the same thing: no fix/parts for the system.

i might have known better than to trust a British company with electronics. (*Glances at photo of my old Austin Healy Sprite*)

cvalue13

I believe what you’d need is the Sonos “Port.”

https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/port

It’s not cheap, and I think intended to make sense cost-wise when someone has a Sonos ecosystem already and want to connect it to an existing analogue receiver/system, to essentially convert that existing analogue system to being a Sonos-controllable extension.

For example, I have a Port connected to my vinyl receiver, which receiver runs two stand-alone passive analogue speakers in my office. So long as I manually turn on the receiver and have the appropriate input selected on the receiver, the Port then makes that analogue system an extension of the Sonos ecosystem and allows me to either:

(1) play a vinyl album on that receiver, and extend that music to play wirelessly on any (or all) of the Sonos speakers located elsewhere throughout my house/outdoors (as well as on the passive speakers), or

(2) play streamable music to sonos generally, and make “selectable” the ability to also play the streaming music through the receiver and passive analogue speakers.

JwRosenthal

The older Sonos units had a single line in on the main unit. Set up a system for a friend and used the amped unit so we could use it with his bookshelf speakers. I used that with a Project phono stage to set up a whole house system for him and he wanted to keep his vinyl in his study but play it throughout the house. His wife loved Spotify- so it gave them the best of both worlds and we wired the amped unit to his existing in-wall wiring (using a speaker selector box which regulates the load) and satellite Sonos speakers in other rooms.

You just select the line input on the app. Not sure if the newer units did away with the line I put or not.

YYTIN

Thanks too !

Another road to look at. I guess I have the older version of Sonos as I bought that quite a long time ago.
A good thing to know there is a way to keep using my cds. Best of both world for me then.

cvalue13

Worse: Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista SACD player, released 2003. I bought it second-hand, so luckily didn’t pay anywhere near the original $6,500 MSRP. When the transporter conked out circa 2014, it didn’t take much googling to learn that it was a common failure and all owners had learned the same thing: no fix/parts for the system.

i might have known better than to trust a British company with electronics. (*Glances at photo of my old Austin Healy Sprite*)

cvalue13

there were a lot of folks on audio forums dragging MF’s name through the mud. But really MF wasn’t alone in Phillips having f’d them. I was left in the cold as a secondary owner past warranty, but apparently primary owners within warranty got full price credit toward another piece of equipment whereas primary owners past warranty got a significant (50%+?) discount on a piece of equipment.

So jokes aside, MF I think oils count amongst those doing their best in a bad situation.