Analog to digital with strange sound

[Johan Karlsson]

Hi! New to the forum. I have a Lenco 852, turntable with built in amplifier and radio. I am helping my son (love vinyl records) to connect it to his soundbar. I’ve tried to connect it from tape out/in on the backside of the Lenco with a DIN-to-RCA-adapter, via a Sonero digital audio converter (RCA in and fiber optic out), and then into the soundbar. But the sound is very low, woobly and a hint of distorted. Anybody here can tell me why and perhaps suggest how to fix it? The soundbar also have HDMI and USB-inputs.

[Firebottle]

I'm guessing the 852 is 'old school' and has a certain age to it.

If so it is very likely that the tape output signal is at a very low level, this was the 'norm' at the time.
Also guessing the soundbar has high level inputs more suited to digital levels.

You need some gain on the tape outputs for a larger signal level into the converter.

[vanakaru]

I personally do not like the idea of converting analog signal to digital in order to play it analog(SoundBar speakers). The conversion in between is waste of resources and most likely add some problems(as in this case). The most sensible would be to get speakers for your Lenco.
But if you need to go your chosen way I would get better analog to digital converter with vol/gain control. I have had pretty good success transporting audio signal using WiFi or Bluetooth adapters as well.
Also it seems that this Lenco is rather unique - only one small picture came up. Probably it is one of the family using B52 turntable. Could you be so kind and take some pictures of the front and back.

[awkwardbydesign]

I suspect this is a modern Lenco, possibly the 85. 

The 852 appears to be a DVD player.

[aamodtasan]

Helped my sister with connecting a Lenco L75 to a B&O sound disk bluetooth ‘thingy’ - it had a line-in, so did Lenco to RIAA (old NAD I had) and to line-in - works great, no delay, no distortion,

hth
henrik

[Johan Karlsson]

Thank you all for suggestions! We managed to solve this with another slightly expensive analog to digital converter. Works fine and the jamaican dub-bas is in the whole house now