Just saw an article about the Victrola Sapphire streaming turntable, and I am somewhat interested. My audio system, while nice for me, is not super high-end. Nucleus, NAD DAC, Musica Pristina streamer, and a decent turntable and cartridge. I have an extensive Vinyl library that I had always planned to convert to digital, clean up with Audacity, and then access via Roon, simply for the convenience. Searching thru my thousands of Vinyl records simply to play a couple of tracks has become almost a non-event. Now there appears to be a record player that can auto-convert to FLAC and presumably load the files into my Nucleus, and hopefully then search and attach metadata. I realize this turntable is not a “premium” player, but at over $1200 it is certainly not cheap, (and is currently sold out on their website). Are there any other turntables that have this capability? Seems this would be a perfect solution for me…pull a platter, and while listening to it, get a Flac copy for future access. What do you all think?
I wasn’t aware that it did record the records, looking forward to some answers as I’ve tried loads of software for recording albums and they are all really fiddly and I hate the post recording editing needed on them. I’d buy one if the feedback is good…
Maybe the answer is already in one of the existing threads
Yes, it streams in FLAC, but is that content save-able to my Nucleus for digital playback, that is what I need to have clarified.
And maybe the question was already asked and answered in the older threads, as it’s quite a reasonable thing to wonder about.
I think it was answered and the answer may be no, but I’m not going to re-read these threads
Hey @Ronald_Gibson, @Suedkiez is correct in saying that the answer to your question is in the threads he shared. The Victrola turntables use our Roon Ready Relay tech, which passes the vinyl stream through Roon to your endpoints. The converted vinyl stream isn’t recorded and captured by the Roon server. It just acts as an additional playback source for Roon. Hope this answers your question.
Victrola’s Roon Ready Relay turntables now include The Stream Carbon, Stream Pearl, and Stream Onyx, which are priced under the flagship Sapphire. I’ve just received a Stream Onyx and hope to have a review on that written before too long.
Well, that is disappointing. So, “Roon Ready Relay tech” hardware lives in the turntable? Why could this Flac stream not be ripped, like a CD? Couldn’t I use any of the many CD ripper software apps to achieve that? I have to think there is a huge market for easily ripping vinyl to Flac and onto a server.
As it stands, I see a slight advantage to be able to stream vinyl to all endpoints, especially with headphone use, but for general vinyl playing, hard to beat running the vinyl output thru my DAC and to my speakers…
There have been many turntables over the years which can output via USB and then captured by software like Vinyl Studio. The Roon Ready turntables offer nothing to the work process of capturing vinyl.
Also, the ADC chips and implementation in these turntables are, imho, not the greatest if your goal is digital archiving. I use an RME ADC to capture.
If you are looking for an easy setup then you should take a look at the SweetVinyl products, https://sweetvinyl.com/. Plug in a turntable, no computer necessary, records to a USB, auto de-clicks and much more. A bit pricey.
Rugby, thanks for the links. That looks to be a better solution for what I need and uses my existing turntable. No need for Audacity for cleanup. Seems to output to USB but in what format…still analog? I do have an ADL GT40 analog to digital converter, but I have yet to try it.
You are all set up, since you have a turntable and the Furutech which allows you to digitize the audio from the TT.
I want full control, so i use Audacity to record, but it is a chore, i agree.
There are other software which does this in a much more user friendly way though.