needing advise adding Bluetooth to Vintage receiver

This is my first time joining a form looking for help or advise. I currently have a vintage Yamaha receiver and turntable. If possible I'd like to have my system be able to play over Bluetooth speakers. Obviously the receiver is not equipped due to it's age. I did purchase the IFI ZEN Blue transmitter/receiver but have not been successful connecting it to the JBL Charge 4 speakers that I already had. If anyone can explain to me if it's even possible to do what I'm trying to accomplish here and if it is....how. If I need to get different speakers, different Bluetooth transmitter to pull this off whatever it requires to do so. . Don't care about playing itunes or Spotify mainly the vinyl through Bluetooth/wireless speakers. I'm not terribly tech-savvy so if you think you can advise me what I can/should do here please keep it on the "easy to understand side" if you can. I'm anxious to hear back from anyone that has pulled this off. Thanks much!
Hofeman61

April 28, 2021 - 4:58pm

markoneswift

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Whilst I can't offer you any

Whilst I can't offer you any exact brands to look for, the short answer to 'is this possible' is YES - absolutely possible. Personally, I would by-pass the amplifier itself and I would hook the turntable RCA outputs to an external phono preamp. I would then hook the outputs of that to a Bluetooth transmitter and connect it to my wireless speakers. You could use a source switcher and have the turntable hooked up to your amp and preamp at the same time, just switching between as desired.

I believe there are transmitters which can handle speaker level outputs and transmit them but I would go with the method above if it were my system.

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