turntable to muso
Posted by: Aidan Jones on 30 September 2016
Hello all, extremely new to this group. I was looking for some help/advice. I have recently purchased an Audio Technica ATLP5 record deck with a pre-amp. I have a wireless naim muso speaker system. How can i get the record player to become wireless? What bit of kit do I need to purchase. I'm not keen on a bluetooth solution.
My dad gave me a Sonos ZP90 (connect). He believes that this will allow the record deck to become wireless. I do not believe him - I've tried several times to get it to work.
My question is - how can I get this to work? Many Thanks, Aidan
Aidan
It's called a cable - just plug it into your Muso.
I don't have a Muso, but look in the back and see if there are any RCA input plugs and if there is a way to change input from streaming, CD or Aux.
Hi,
I've thought about this in regards to hooking a turntable up to my all digital input DAC V1. You would either need a digital output turntable amp - only one I could find of note was the PS Audio. A bit spendy, even used, and you would still have to go USB to toslink or spdif to tousling on the muso (straight spdif with V1). Pretty sure it sounds great; my local dealer has a used one and its a hefty unit. I think there's other digital out tt amps (NAD?) and turntables themselves, but they only output to USB if I recall, so you would then need to convert that to toslink for the muso. Even then no guarantee of handshake. ADC is pretty barren territory compared to DAC.
FTR the only physical inputs to a muso are power, ethernet, and toslink.
charlesphoto posted:Hi,
I've thought about this in regards to hooking a turntable up to my all digital input DAC V1. You would either need a digital output turntable amp - only one I could find of note was the PS Audio. A bit spendy, even used, and you would still have to go USB to toslink or spdif to tousling on the muso (straight spdif with V1). Pretty sure it sounds great; my local dealer has a used one and its a hefty unit. I think there's other digital out tt amps (NAD?) and turntables themselves, but they only output to USB if I recall, so you would then need to convert that to toslink for the muso. Even then no guarantee of handshake. ADC is pretty barren territory compared to DAC.
Whilst I don't have personal experience, I think the ADC process is much less demanding than DAC! In terms of achieving good quality - I am actually considering buying an ADC tomfeed non digital sources through Dave DAC to save switching between Dave and a preamp, but have only just today started looking into what's available.
but in answer to the OP, you'll need an ADC (analog to digital converter) and something to transmit overbwifi - simplest might be to use a computer, or for better sound quality add an. external sound card or self-contained ADC. Wired connection to Muso if it has analog inputs would be much easier if that is an option, depending of course on where the twomunits are sited.
The OPs turntable had a built in phono stage and ADC with USB out (otherwise I'd have suggested a Rega Fono Mini as a good affordable option.) It might be possible to use a USB to SPDIF converter to provide a wired connection, if you can source one with an optical out. Otherwise you'd need an SPDIF coaxial to SPDIF optical converter as well, which is all getting a bit messy. All this assumes you could site the TT close enough to the Muso to wire it. Adding a WiFi connection sounds like it's getting even more fiddly, and possibly worse in terms of stability and sound quality?
I suspect that your dad may be correct. The ZP90 has analogue in connectors that your turntable can connect to and it has optical and coax digital out that I would guess could be used to connect to your Muso. He is also correct that it could be used to make things wireless, although I don't know enough about the device to know how to do that.
i might be misunderstanding the question, but as far as i see it the "best" way (as adam suggested) is to cable the deck to the Muso using the phono outs on the ATLP5 via a phono to 3,5 jack cable - thats the way i have done it with my RP3 (through a Rega Riaa) to my Muso - i do have to admit that it takes some away from the esthetics of the Muso having cables out the side of it..
The wifi connection sounds like something that would never be a "happy marriage" in my ears...
IB, sluggtly off topic, but in tesponse to your comment, in fact ADC is far more demanding. Quality ADCs are still costly although things have improved markedly and costs have come down quite a bit in the last few years so a half decent hi res consumer ADC can be bought for around £200 these days.
Thanks for the observation Richard. By less demanding I was expressing my understanding that the process is less complex than the reassembly of analogue music by a DAC, with its necessary filtration etc, but I have only just started looking into them and don't pretend to be an expert.