Sony PSLX250H Turntable

Great product.
Easy to put together, works perfectly with my twenty year old system.
And I love the controls.
My old vinyl sounds so good. Many memories come floodng back as I listen to songs I haven't heard in years.
And who can complain about the price. A real bargain.

This turntable, after hours and hours of play, has been just what I needed to enhance my love of music. The arm has an automatic return as well as a push-button up/down toggle, which makes for easy playback. The stylus is worthy, but an update to a higher quality stylus/cartridge wouldn't hurt. The only reason it did not get a 5-star review is for lack of outputs. It only has a fixed RCA out, which does not allow for a broad range of applications out of the box or user-specific cables, but a trip to any electronics store/website will get you a converter to go with almost any application. Otherwise, a great product!

I would like to start by saying 2 stars is indeed better than one; I have had mine for four years and have been able to enjoy my records for that long. However I should have paid about half what I did (125) considering the quality issues of design in this player.
1) The first model I bought didn't work AT ALL and had to be returned for the one I owned for 4 years.
2) Within the first year that I owned the 250, the 45 speed adj button bit the dust, not surprising how poorly made it felt.
3) After comparing LPs to CD, I found the machine was playing records slightly too fast. Which brings me to...
4) NO pitch adjustment?
5) Sometimes the automatic mechanism would drop the needle, then immediately lift it and put it back on the rest. Very frustrating. The START/UP-DOWN/STOP buttons are ALL very unreliable and malfunction from time to time.
6) Installing a new stylus was like pulling a tooth without proper tools, than trying to hammer a new one in with your thumb. Not intuitive or simple OR easy, to say the least.
All that being said, I could listen to 33 rpm records for four years and was able to upload a lot of those to CD with this thing. By the way- YOU DON'T HAVE TO FALL FOR RECORD PLAYERS THAT ADVERTISE TO BE AN ALL IN ONE CD/MP3 CONVERTER. All you need is a 4 dollar chord from RadioShack (or Amazon) your computer (assuming you will use the one you are right now,) and a freeware recording software. There are a few you can download, such as Reaper. Look it up online, it's so easy. (I Just have to redo mine all now that I realize they were playing too fast)
I don't recommend this turntable to anyone, not unless they cut the price in half. It's simply too much of your hard earned money for an inferior piece of machinery largely made of plastic in China. There are other record players for about 100 dollars that are very reliable, play well and are just great stand-by-me machines. Mine just bit the dust FINALLY, started playing records at 1.5 times the normal speed. Then the cartridge broke when I was removing the stylus (and I do know what I'm doing with uninstalling it). Save your money, buy a nice used Technics, Audio-Technica or give one of the newer brands a shot. I hear Stanton makes a good one.

Good product for the money. I am now able to play my older albums that have been sitting around. Ease of use is important to me. I would recommend it to anyone.

I love listening to music that predates me. I'm a junior in high school, so i still live at home and last summer i found my parents vinyl stash in my basement. There was a lot of Zeppelin and Floyd, The Animals, Billy Joel, U2, Def Leppard... good stuff. So i hauled about 50 up to my room. Problem: nothing to play them on. My dad had an old Panasonic turntable that could be hooked up to a big stereo system that can amplify it, so hooking that 25 year old piece of equipment up in my living room was a reality. But I wanted something I could hook up to the aux imputs of my RCA 5-CD player in my room, which unfortunately has no preamp.

So I started looking. Didn't have to look very hard. This turntable sounds amazing. I've had it for about 8 months now, and i use it just about every day. It's easy to hook up and can connect to just about any system. I'm sure it's not the most advanced turntable out there, but it does the job nicely for an extremely affordable price. I've built my collection since this summer... vinyls are so easy to find. I'm listening to Mott the Hoople's 'All the Young Dudes' right now as I write this.

Setup was easy. It took me about 5 minutes to get it put together and start listening. The arm is fully automatic, the buttons in the front are easily accessible... it's pretty straightforward. Easy to use and easy to setup. It helped me jumpstart what I hope will be many years of enjoying the warm beauty that is the sound of the vinyl. Highly reccomended.

SETUP - *****
SOUND - *****
PRICE - *****
OVERALL - *****