Victrola Stream 4+

Easy to set up, but frequently forgets the default speaker group setting, which means nothing comes out when you start to play. This seems to happen most often when grouping rooms such that the default room becomes part of a group. As a result I have to keep coming back into the app, which is somehow both barebones and poorly designed.

It's absolutely true that even with lightning fast Wi-Fi and great signal the Victrola stream simply does not connect reliably about 2/3 of the time. I was willing to accept a buffering delay but more times than not I get no sound at all and find myself reaching for the phone. Open the app. Restart the turntable. Check the app. Check the connectivity. Check the signal strength. Try again. Then- finallly after either 15 seconds or 5 minutes the sounds of the turntable will finally come out of the default speaker. It's hard to get turntable-nostalgic if you have to fool with your phone for 5 minutes first.

I'm currently running a 50' cat6 through my basement and hoping a wired connection will up the experience to simply frustrating instead of practically unuseable. Please repair and update this app and the turntable firmware if it's even possible.

Installation was very seamless, and the turntable sounds great. However, I am constantly having to unplug it, and unplug all of my speakers pretty much every time I want to play the turntable. Otherwise, I get the orange flashing light in front, even though I have a designated speaker identified in the app. I have looked at what little troubleshooting guideline there is online and have followed each instruction to the letter. Regardless, the only thing that seems to work is to unplug everything and then replug it in each time I want to use it. Hopefully this will improve with updates to the app.