The modern design blends easily with both contemporary and vintage furniture, the matte black surfaces match well with Sonos speakers (assuming your Sonos speakers are black), and its low profile makes it fit easily in a range of media unit spaces. The Stream Carbon’s clean lines, matte silver face, and minimalistic illuminated volume dial are welcome changes to that old Victrola aesthetic. When I first saw the Victrola Stream Carbon late last year, I was ecstatic to see a product from Victrola that wasn’t housed in a suitcase or that looked like it was from the 1950s. Modern design, simple setup Derek Malcolm/Digital Trends Audio-Technica revives its vinyl Walkman for a new generation The best speaker brands of 2023: JBL, Sonos, KEF, and moreīest wireless speakers for 2023: Apple, Sonos, KEF, and more That said, my time with the Victrola Stream has shown me that, while not perfect, it’s one of the best ways to play vinyl records over Sonos that I’ve yet to find.
But for others just starting out with Sonos and want to include vinyl, with the Stream’s hefty price tag, there could be better and more cost-effective ways to do it. If you have an existing Sonos ecosystem in your home, the Stream Carbon could be an all-in-one way to integrate vinyl into it. And while it does have a couple of quirks, it sounds great, it’s easy to set up, and it’s made with some solid turntable components.īeing able to stream records throughout my whole house has been a delight, and it even integrates with my analog setup via RCA connectivity (with some challenges I’ll get into below). Enter the Victrola Carbon Stream, an MSRP $800 ($700 at the time of this review) wireless turntable developed with Sonos that is the first of its kind to stream vinyl records directly to a Sonos system, without the need for a line-in adapter or the use of an external device such as the Sonos Amp or Port.
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