The answer to this may well be in the forum somewhere, but I’m not sure what I’m looking for!
A few years ago we replaced my living room HiFi for a MuSo2, I’m sure many of you know how this goes with partners. Anyway, I still have my NAD 533 and lots of LPs, but there’s no way it’ll be allowed in the lounge, where the MuSo lives. There must be a way of connecting the two, an Airplay/Bluetooth pre-amp?
I know it’s converting analogue to digital, but it would be nice to listed to my albums again. We don’t subscribe to a streaming service, I know Apple Music is ‘only’ £10.99 a month, but it all adds up and with it being controlled by just one iPhone that’s a no go too!
Any thoughts from the collective, I did come across this, along the right lines?
A few thoughts: You’d still need to buy a phono pre-amp between your NAD 533 and this Preamp (unless you already have one). I’m lazy, and it would drive me mad to have to get up from the living room, walk to the room where the turntable is, change a side/record and then walk back to the living room to listen. Playing 7" singles would be out of the question, unless I was trying to get my walking paces up. How far away is the “turntable” room from the living room? Bluetooth doesn’t have a great range, especially if you have thick walls. I don’t quite understand the problem with using a streaming service and “being controlled by just one iPhone”? You wouldn’t want you and your partner both trying to play music at the same time? Or do you just mean that you think the software can only exist on one phone? I’m sure most streaming services allow you to have their software on multiple devices, but only allow playing from one device at a time? You could enable Tidal on the MuSo2. That way you’d have only one “device” and can have multiple “control points” via multiple phones, where each has the Naim app.
Thanks for the reply. I’ve mixed up two issues here.
The first was wanting to play long time owned albums, but with the TT in another part of the house. Maybe I’m over complicating this and just needed to transfer my albums to digital.
Second issue with streaming through the Muso is my understanding that if I’m streaming from my iPhone, say via Apple Music and leave the house, the Muso just stops, leaving an annoyed wife who then has to manually use the Muso ‘dial’ on top to select Radio 2 or whatever she wants to listen to.
NB I’m quite a simpleton, the MuSo appeals as it just plays stuff, much like Apple Music/Mac
Hi, I’m inclined to agree that playing a turntable remotely into a Muso is overcomlicating things a bit. If the albums are available on Apple Music I would be tempted to just stream them from there, and I doubt the sound quality would be any worse.
When you use Apple Music the stream is routed through your iPhone and from there to the Muso using Airplay via your home WiFi network. So yes, the music will stop when your phone leaves your home network. If your wife also has an iPhone she could use that to control the Muso, either via Apple Music or the Naim app.
The muso 2 supports tidal and qobuz, neither of which tie the phone and muso together. Ie start playing a tidal or qobuz track album playlist and it goes direct to the muso; the phone is just to start the stream playing.
I thought of suggesting this, but another Muso wouldn’t do it. You would need an Atom, Star or Nova, possibly a step too far……unless of course you wanted one anyway!
I have many systems but only a couple have turntables. While doing Naim multiroom via the digital loopback from the ADC into the streamer is possible in real time for vinyl playback, it’s a hassle. Simpler to just make rips and then you can play them anywhere and save spinning a disc for serious listening.
In fact I spent all morning working with vinyl “rips” playing though my Uniti
