So glad I found this video - I have the Carbon Evo and a Sonos 5…..just need the RCA adapter and pre amp to complete the set up. Your walkthrough was incredibly helpful.
An excellent and well-thought out review, thank you. I have a classic turntable that needs a complete refurb - and I also have a fairly extensive Sonos system and have just received a very generous Sonos discount offer. I'm now very tempted by the Pro Ject, especially as I can potentially upgrade it down the road, thereby probably spending almost as much money as I would on refurbishing the older deck 😬
I just purchased the fluance rt83 and have already spent more in upgrades before I've recieved it in the mail. Still have to wait 2 more days😅 it's addictive.
Thanks for the video, its very helpful. I've read mixed things related to needing to shim for the vertical tracking when upgrading the sub platter or acylic platter. Have you noticed any issues without shimming?
I connected it to my era 100. Followed every step. I Get sound with a lot of static sound. And the music is very low. I don’t know if my cable is defective or if it’s something wrong with the turn table? The static noise is there when I don’t play music to. Ps I connected the yellow tabbed cables in to the turn table. Please help🥰
What a complete review! I too was a kid when I had a turntable and want to purchase one. I’m looking at the FluanceRT85. Do you hear a difference between CD, streaming music vs your turntable? Thx
It all depends on your setup (speakers amps etc), and which albums you listen to. I don’t listen to cds often but in terms of streaming my vinyl setup has way more presence and staging than streaming does. But streaming is prob better for newer music with more bass.
Do you have an opinion on how this compares with the Victrola Stream Carbon? The Victrola setup seems to be even more seamless and it connects to the Sonos setup via Wifi, but I am curious to understand if there is a difference in the sound quality?
Hey great video thanks - I’m starting out too. Got an Audio Technica with built in pre-amp and bought an Era 100 to use for the line in. All working so far but did you notice the output is not super loud? It’s ok, you’d have to raise your voice to talk over it if Era is set to max volume, but not at loud as it can go when streaming music through it.
I haven’t used an era 100 but if it’s at all similar to the play 1 in terms of output then yes it will be too weak for a turntable. The play 5 is their loudest speaker I believe.
Really great review and setup for pro-ject turntable with sonos. I recently bought the carbon evo without sonos as package and i bought the pre amp S2 ultra from pro-ject. Do i need sonos amp or sonos port so that i can stream to my sonos home theatre system?
@@FilmIn5D my setup is sonos beam gen 2, so i would like to play through my beam gen 2. Do i need a sonos port or amp? My carbon evo have project Ultra S2 phono pre amp only
the link in description for the Alu subplatter upgrade is incorrect. I purchased this and it doesnt fit, its for "classic series". now turntable lab wont let me return it :/
I mentioned in the video, but the included phono pre amp, acrylic platter upgrade, electronic speed switch button, and I THINK a slightly larger chassis but don’t quote me on that.
How has your experience been listening to vinyl via digital signals? I've beeb looking at the Carbon Evo for a while but currently I have a Samsung soundbar system at home and the only input options are bluetooth and optical, so I'm thinking to use. RCA to Optical adapter but is worried that the sound quality will be downgraded too much.
awesome.. gonna try it when i get home.. thanks for the vid.. very informative.. everytime i stop my turntable, i have to turn it off, which disconnects it from the other speakers... change the record, turn it back on, then i have to link all the systems back together if i want to hear from multiple systems and not just the sonos one that came with the turntable.. very frustrating.. so maybe the autoplay feature will fix it? @@FilmIn5D
this dude is so full of it. He states he's a noob to turntables but he clearly isn't. Here he is buying a decent turntables that is no way entry level and getting a bunch of upgrades, that the average user wouldn't even use.
