I bought this two years ago. I love it. Last week I upgraded to a turntable with a better cartridge and in all honesty, I couldn't tell the difference. So now I'm back to old reliable. I guess my ears or my speakers cant pick up on things like that.
Put an elliptical stylus on the Sony, that's if you haven't done it already. This way you are upgrading the turntable's sound profile anyway. Swapping out mats for higher end materials like acrylic can also work wonders, and it also happens to be Record-ology's favourite surface.
I like these particular types of turntables because they are fairly easy to modify for 3 speeds and there is a 78 needle that works for the Audio Technica cartridge. Currently, I have a modified AT-LP60 that I use for 78's.
@@ronschultz6336 Radiotvphononut has several videos showing his 78 mods to the LP60 and similar turntables. You can browse through his channel. I think he did them within the past 2-3 months or so.
That wire under the plater is for the auto return if you dislodge it the auto start and stop will not work. I had one of those and binned it, it skipped on the majority of my records and was a complete pain. I think that it could have just been a Faulty one as I have seen the same complaints with the lp60 as well. If they are not setup properly from the factory there is nothing you can do about as the counter weight is none adjustable.
That's the same turntable I have! I bought it new a couple of years ago. I have it connected to a mini hifi system (also Sony) and it really suits me. I was interested to see the tracking force am glad to see it won't damage my records. I like the fact that it is automatic as well.
This recordplayer reminded me of my early teenage years. I had a Sony PS-LX 100, the cheapest of the cheapest with horrible inner groove distortion, but I was very proud of it back then and had a great time, listening to records :D
I had this as my first turntable when I got back into records. It's fine. I wouldn't use it for any expensive records as it isn't the last word in refinement, but it's a decent record player. I got the Schiit Mani, and it was a big improvement over the built in phono. You make me want to haul it out of the closet and dust it with a glob of goo! That car situation sounded like a real headache, but the hike looked great.
I picked up one of these from a pawn shop labeled as “not working” for the same price. One belt and stylus later, and it’s not had a problem since. The only thing I dislike about it is that it tends to drop the tone arm like a hammer.
I've never done anything Vinyl-related in my life. I saw one of these at my local used bookstore for $25 and they have a rather large record collection. Should I dip?
I remember seeing these in stores before they discontinued it, along with the Pioneer PL-990 and Denons, Akais, Duals, etc all made by Hanpin. They're the first new turntables that I've gotten my hands onto.
Yes, this model uses the same chassis as the Pioneer PL-990. It even has the slot where the Pioneer has its strobe light and mirror, except the Sony lacks the strobe so it's just an empty hole. I did a video comparing the Pioneer PL-990 with the Sony PS-LX250H (the predecessor to the PS-LX300USB) many years ago on my channel.
Hanpin is in Taiwan, this was made in China. People in Taiwan hate being called Chinese, different culture. Even though China claims Taiwan belongs to them.
Hello from Yorkshire,I have an Aiwa 850 turntable that was part of an Aiwa midi system from the mid 90s.it was a separate but part of the overall system. Fully automatic, and with an Audio Technica 3600 stylus,I had no problems with it. Midi system wore out but not the turntable.
I love watching reviews of older turntables, so cool to see how things have changed over the years! I recently did a review of the newer model, it has potential but sadly my one wasn’t up to scratch for the price
I had this turntable before I got my Denon DP-300F. It served its purpose but what I didn't like about it was it didn't have a counter balance weight and some records would just skip in odd places. It's a good starter one though.
Just hit 65 and bought a Sony PS-LX310BT to play my old vinyl and had new woofers put in my old huge speakers. Problem: A very small room and I love it LOUD. 11 o'clock on my receiver and I get a huge roaring feedback. Suggestions? Most of the platforms cost more than the turntable so I can't go there.
Any cheap turntable like this , is more excellent than any one comes with speaker like Crosley. metal platter , diamond stylus , MM cartridge , full automatic, It's quasi-audiophile equip. Pick it back anyway from junk store/trash can.
Buy a new belt, upgrade the stylus to an LP Gear 6516 SE, a perfect fit, and use a Pro-Ject phono box preamplifier, all sold on Amazon. For roughly less than $200 in upgrades you now have a turntable that can easily rival many $500-$700 turntables in sound.
One of my first turntable purchases was a Sony PS-LX250H unit for about $80 new-in-box from an eBay seller. It worked pretty well for quite a while and was easy to hook up using either the line-out or phono setting, but at some point, it dropped the stylus a bit harshly on records and sometimes, the tone arm would lift up by itself at any point within an LP record to auto-return and shut off the turntable which was irritating. So, I upgraded by buying vintage 1980's Sony direct-drive turntables that were very reliable and then I fell down the rabbit hole (a fun rabbit hole, but a rabbit hole nonetheless since collecting is a disease) by collecting turntables by Bang & Olufsen, Denon, Dual, Elac Miracord, Acoustic Research, Sansui, etc. :)
Back in the day, there were plenty of 7" 33 1/3 records, and even 12" 45 rpm ones. They all had small holes. It is easy to mistake them. I believe both formats were extended play, around 10 minutes per side.
reminds me of the time I was showing my friend my new record player and chalenged him to see if he new how to work it, and first thing he does is drags the needle all the way to the center of the record lable!
Dollar store slim in the toy area.. Exact same stuff as your Crosley dust remover and it only costs a $1. I've been using it for years.. also works great on your car dashboard.
Not sure how this can be compared with an LP3, at least in terms of the tonearm. This arm is basically a pencil attached to an el cheapo headshell. Not comparable to the arms of an LP3 or Crosley C8 ((is that one discontinued?).
Crosley still lists the C8 on their website for $299.99. Currently out of stock, but they expect to restock in December. Crosley's version of this turntable is the T400, $99.95.
I bought one of these turntables back in 2019. It was brand new in the box and cost me £25 plus some diesel money. The one thing that I think you are missing with your purchase is the CD-ROM which came with it new, unfortunately I don't know what it is used for because I never took mine out of the box (as I have too many other devices to concentrate on) but obviously it is to do with the files coming from the USB cable !
I had one of these, I actually still have it in it's box in my storage unit. It was a great cheap turntable. Yeah, it's just the same thing as an at lp60... But if ya know what that is , ya know it's great for the price. I replaced it with a Rega P2 that I got for a steal, so yeah this can't touch that at all, but I really liked this turntable when it was my regular use one.
That is a Hanpin and essentially a wide version of the Audio Technica which is not a bad thing. The basic design if this table dates back to the late 90s. It is essentially the same as the Aiwa.
Great review. Picked one up today. $40.00 What is the best resource for a needle? Had a little chocolate on mine as well. ---You was about to get ganked! ("Genius Set Up") Is dead on the money! Damn valuable info! SCAM ALEART!!!!
I have a older model and my stylus broke, and getting a replacement is impossible. I've looked online for the longest time, and ended up getting a cheap suit case player as a replacement.
We have a PS-LSX250H that we bought in the early 2000s as options were slim (the only turntable at the retailer when we bought it). It's been very reliable and plays older vinyl (80s and earlier) great, but seems to have speed issues with newer pressings as if it's accelerating as the record plays to the center tracks. Ours is still cleaner than the one you picked-up.
I just purchased this player a few weeks ago. I have one concerns. Unless my scale is off, which it could be, my tracking force appears to be measuring at about 4.16 grams. Is this too high? Is there a way to adjust the tone arm?
LIKE 35 and that's no jive. 1:30 Record-ology, I know all about that "thrift store feeling" which is like Spider-Man's Spidey sense tingling when there are bargains or cool records afoot that compel us to rush to thrift stores. :)
It kinda looks like a playstation1 with that placement of the 45 adaptor lol. Wonder if they just blew up the bitmap scaling of the mold for the og ps1 and sent it off to china to be reengineered into the casing for the turntable
Looks like the plastic is attracting a lot of dust.. Anti-static record cleaning fluid can be used on the plastic of the turntable to make it attract less dust. As a European, I can confirm that it's ridiculous to use metric units for record sizes. Only with cheap or antique turntables, an AC synchronous motor is a good thing. A proper modern design using something like a DC servo is more accurate, especially if you have noisy devices connected in the same power group of your house. That Sony turntable is only a bit cheaper than the AT-LP3, while the LP3 has a much better tonearm - definitely waaay more value for the money when going for the LP3! Have you been hiking in boulder? Should've visited PS Audio! As for the "car issue"... that was just faked so they could drive away with your car. That ripoff trick is so old.
I wonder 💭 why ya don’t show us a record player way out there by the water 💧. Just be careful of those thrift stores 🏬. They can sell overpriced or broken 😞 junk. Your friend, Jeff.
Have you researched using bleach to clean your gear? It is highly corrosive. I’ve always read not to use it on plastics. Especially old plastics that might already be degraded.
The belt residue on the subplatter is probably a result of the belt slipping. I would use Goo Gone to clean the residue off the sub platter, then use alcohol to finish cleaning. A keyboard vacuum makes a wonderful way to get dust out of tight spaces. I never use canned air indoors. Minor quibble. I'm almost entirely certain that's not an AC motor in there. If it was AC you would not have speed adjustments for it, OR be able to change speed by pushbutton. I'm guessing you looked up some specs on it and someone along the line incorrectly put 'AC motor' in those specs. I've caught that error with other turntables. The only turntables in the 'consumer' market today with an AC motor are units like the U-Turn Orbit and similar, where you have to change the speed by moving the belt from one sheave on the motor pulley to another. Yes, it's possible to make multi-speed AC motors, but they probably drive the price up considerably.
They used to make AC motor turntables with mechanical speed shifters. But it adds to the complexity of the machine, so companies like U-Turn stick to manual speed shifting, even if it means the belt and motor pulley have to be on the outside of the turntable.
Nice very basic turntable. The motor is plain DC motor you will find in any cassette player, the stroboscope: if it appears to rotate "forward" (clockwise) it runs too fast and if the lines appear to run counterclockwise than it runs too slow.
i got this turn table for free brand new from my work as a gift. i like it
I bought this two years ago. I love it. Last week I upgraded to a turntable with a better cartridge and in all honesty, I couldn't tell the difference. So now I'm back to old reliable. I guess my ears or my speakers cant pick up on things like that.
Put an elliptical stylus on the Sony, that's if you haven't done it already. This way you are upgrading the turntable's sound profile anyway. Swapping out mats for higher end materials like acrylic can also work wonders, and it also happens to be Record-ology's favourite surface.
I been using this turntable for almost ten years and it still sounds great
I like these particular types of turntables because they are fairly easy to modify for 3 speeds and there is a 78 needle that works for the Audio Technica cartridge. Currently, I have a modified AT-LP60 that I use for 78's.
Can you say what you do to get 78 rpm? Sounds interesting.
How do you modify it??
@@ronschultz6336 Radiotvphononut has several videos showing his 78 mods to the LP60 and similar turntables. You can browse through his channel. I think he did them within the past 2-3 months or so.
That wire under the plater is for the auto return if you dislodge it the auto start and stop will not work. I had one of those and binned it, it skipped on the majority of my records and was a complete pain. I think that it could have just been a Faulty one as I have seen the same complaints with the lp60 as well. If they are not setup properly from the factory there is nothing you can do about as the counter weight is none adjustable.
That's the same turntable I have! I bought it new a couple of years ago. I have it connected to a mini hifi system (also Sony) and it really suits me. I was interested to see the tracking force am glad to see it won't damage my records. I like the fact that it is automatic as well.
I use one of these sometimes and I really like it. It’s not a high end unit but it’s simple and reliable. Have a Blessed Day
This recordplayer reminded me of my early teenage years. I had a Sony PS-LX 100, the cheapest of the cheapest with horrible inner groove distortion, but I was very proud of it back then and had a great time, listening to records :D
Could you give me the number of the cartridge and the website you order it from
You should review the sony ps-lx310bt!!
I still have my pioneer pl990 I bought 4 years ago still works 👍 upgraded needle and belt goes like a champ
I had this as my first turntable when I got back into records. It's fine. I wouldn't use it for any expensive records as it isn't the last word in refinement, but it's a decent record player. I got the Schiit Mani, and it was a big improvement over the built in phono. You make me want to haul it out of the closet and dust it with a glob of goo! That car situation sounded like a real headache, but the hike looked great.
I picked up one of these from a pawn shop labeled as “not working” for the same price. One belt and stylus later, and it’s not had a problem since. The only thing I dislike about it is that it tends to drop the tone arm like a hammer.
Not sure, but does it have "damping" on the cue arm, which could be adjusted to prevent the "hammer action" !
I picked up one of these turntables for $45 from local record store. I have a Sony component rack and wanted a matching turntable. :)
Another excellent buy,at one of your local charity shops !!
I've never done anything Vinyl-related in my life. I saw one of these at my local used bookstore for $25 and they have a rather large record collection. Should I dip?
I remember seeing these in stores before they discontinued it, along with the Pioneer PL-990 and Denons, Akais, Duals, etc all made by Hanpin. They're the first new turntables that I've gotten my hands onto.
Yes, this model uses the same chassis as the Pioneer PL-990. It even has the slot where the Pioneer has its strobe light and mirror, except the Sony lacks the strobe so it's just an empty hole. I did a video comparing the Pioneer PL-990 with the Sony PS-LX250H (the predecessor to the PS-LX300USB) many years ago on my channel.
Hanpin is in Taiwan, this was made in China. People in Taiwan hate being called Chinese, different culture. Even though China claims Taiwan belongs to them.
Hello from Yorkshire,I have an Aiwa 850 turntable that was part of an Aiwa midi system from the mid 90s.it was a separate but part of the overall system. Fully automatic, and with an Audio Technica 3600 stylus,I had no problems with it. Midi system wore out but not the turntable.
I love watching reviews of older turntables, so cool to see how things have changed over the years! I recently did a review of the newer model, it has potential but sadly my one wasn’t up to scratch for the price
I had this turntable before I got my Denon DP-300F. It served its purpose but what I didn't like about it was it didn't have a counter balance weight and some records would just skip in odd places. It's a good starter one though.
Just hit 65 and bought a Sony PS-LX310BT to play my old vinyl and had new woofers put in my old huge speakers. Problem: A very small room and I love it LOUD. 11 o'clock on my receiver and I get a huge roaring feedback. Suggestions? Most of the platforms cost more than the turntable so I can't go there.
Any cheap turntable like this , is more excellent than any one comes with speaker like Crosley.
metal platter , diamond stylus , MM cartridge , full automatic,
It's quasi-audiophile equip. Pick it back anyway from junk store/trash can.
Yes same platter as the Pioneer 990 only the strobe dots are shiny so the they show up through the light window.
Will you have a review for the PS-LX310BT soon?
I think you can get an upgrade on the AT 3600, with an elliptical stylus.
Buy a new belt, upgrade the stylus to an LP Gear 6516 SE, a perfect fit, and use a Pro-Ject phono box preamplifier, all sold on Amazon. For roughly less than $200 in upgrades you now have a turntable that can easily rival many $500-$700 turntables in sound.
One of my first turntable purchases was a Sony PS-LX250H unit for about $80 new-in-box from an eBay seller. It worked pretty well for quite a while and was easy to hook up using either the line-out or phono setting, but at some point, it dropped the stylus a bit harshly on records and sometimes, the tone arm would lift up by itself at any point within an LP record to auto-return and shut off the turntable which was irritating.
So, I upgraded by buying vintage 1980's Sony direct-drive turntables that were very reliable and then I fell down the rabbit hole (a fun rabbit hole, but a rabbit hole nonetheless since collecting is a disease) by collecting turntables by Bang & Olufsen, Denon, Dual, Elac Miracord, Acoustic Research, Sansui, etc. :)
do you have any realistic LAB series tables?
The Pioneer PL-990 uses the strobe markings for the pitch control. The plinth design looks similar too.
You can't change the cartridge.
HOWEVER, you can upgrade the stylus(needle).
Why would you play a 33 1/3 RPM record at 45 RPM? I don’t understand why you would do that in demonstrating the sound quality of a TT.
Like I said in the video it was a mistake
Back in the day, there were plenty of 7" 33 1/3 records, and even 12" 45 rpm ones. They all had small holes. It is easy to mistake them. I believe both formats were extended play, around 10 minutes per side.
reminds me of the time I was showing my friend my new record player and chalenged him to see if he new how to work it, and first thing he does is drags the needle all the way to the center of the record lable!
Dollar store slim in the toy area.. Exact same stuff as your Crosley dust remover and it only costs a $1. I've been using it for years.. also works great on your car dashboard.
Not sure how this can be compared with an LP3, at least in terms of the tonearm. This arm is basically a pencil attached to an el cheapo headshell. Not comparable to the arms of an LP3 or Crosley C8 ((is that one discontinued?).
The AT-LP3 and this Sony use the exact same automatic mechanism.
Crosley still lists the C8 on their website for $299.99. Currently out of stock, but they expect to restock in December. Crosley's version of this turntable is the T400, $99.95.
Ford ZX2 S/R edition. Underrated car.
I bought one of these turntables back in 2019.
It was brand new in the box and cost me £25 plus some diesel money.
The one thing that I think you are missing with your purchase is the CD-ROM which came with it new, unfortunately I don't know what it is used for because I never took mine out of the box (as I have too many other devices to concentrate on) but obviously it is to do with the files coming from the USB cable !
I had one of these, I actually still have it in it's box in my storage unit. It was a great cheap turntable. Yeah, it's just the same thing as an at lp60... But if ya know what that is , ya know it's great for the price. I replaced it with a Rega P2 that I got for a steal, so yeah this can't touch that at all, but I really liked this turntable when it was my regular use one.
This almost was my first turntable, the numark tt250 won me over because of the interchangeable headshell.
That is a Hanpin and essentially a wide version of the Audio Technica which is not a bad thing. The basic design if this table dates back to the late 90s. It is essentially the same as the Aiwa.
Great review. Picked one up today. $40.00 What is the best resource for a needle? Had a little chocolate on mine as well. ---You was about to get ganked! ("Genius Set Up") Is dead on the money! Damn valuable info! SCAM ALEART!!!!
I have a older model and my stylus broke, and getting a replacement is impossible. I've looked online for the longest time, and ended up getting a cheap suit case player as a replacement.
This is a great record player
I got that exact model record player today and it had been sitting for 30 years in a room and it wasn't even close to that dirty!
This one was made in 2017.
YAY....I Love Sony Stereo Equipment - Very Nice!
We have a PS-LSX250H that we bought in the early 2000s as options were slim (the only turntable at the retailer when we bought it). It's been very reliable and plays older vinyl (80s and earlier) great, but seems to have speed issues with newer pressings as if it's accelerating as the record plays to the center tracks. Ours is still cleaner than the one you picked-up.
I just purchased this player a few weeks ago. I have one concerns. Unless my scale is off, which it could be, my tracking force appears to be measuring at about 4.16 grams. Is this too high? Is there a way to adjust the tone arm?
Hello Guy, I do have this exact same turntable 😀😊
I have a Sony PS-LX300USB turntable which requires replacement of belt. I don’t know belt length, also it’s not available in India. Any suggestion?
Goto ebay
This is a fine player unless youre playing anything below "very good", then it tends to skip a lot
I like going up to Indian Peaks Wilderness because it’s less touristy
I had to double check that I clicked the right video. After about 15 seconds, I was concerned. 😅
This appears to be an AT LP60 in a Sony dress
LIKE 35 and that's no jive.
1:30 Record-ology, I know all about that "thrift store feeling" which is like Spider-Man's Spidey sense tingling when there are bargains or cool records afoot that compel us to rush to thrift stores. :)
the motor is DC, there's a transformer and rectifier inside
It kinda looks like a playstation1 with that placement of the 45 adaptor lol.
Wonder if they just blew up the bitmap scaling of the mold for the og ps1 and sent it off to china to be reengineered into the casing for the turntable
It sounds to me like someone was out to steal your car. Good thing you didn't let that guy inside your vehicle!
My girlfriend bought me a Sony Turntable in 1992.....don't recall the model. From Circuit City I think.
Looks like the plastic is attracting a lot of dust.. Anti-static record cleaning fluid can be used on the plastic of the turntable to make it attract less dust.
As a European, I can confirm that it's ridiculous to use metric units for record sizes.
Only with cheap or antique turntables, an AC synchronous motor is a good thing.
A proper modern design using something like a DC servo is more accurate, especially if you have noisy devices connected in the same power group of your house.
That Sony turntable is only a bit cheaper than the AT-LP3, while the LP3 has a much better tonearm - definitely waaay more value for the money when going for the LP3!
Have you been hiking in boulder?
Should've visited PS Audio!
As for the "car issue"... that was just faked so they could drive away with your car. That ripoff trick is so old.
Very hard to hear bits of this as you kept moving away from the mic. Still enjoyed the video though.
My hands shake when dropping the stylus too. But that's what Karens do to me!
2017? Must be party animals if the TT looks THAT bad!
I wonder 💭 why ya don’t show us a record player way out there by the water 💧. Just be careful of those thrift stores 🏬. They can sell overpriced or broken 😞 junk. Your friend, Jeff.
I wonder why Sony went down hill so fast recently. In the 60s-80s buying Sony for a guaranteed quality experience became de rigueur.
Exactly
The techies who who started the company are gone. Now it's run by money hungry business types.
Have you researched using bleach to clean your gear? It is highly corrosive. I’ve always read not to use it on plastics. Especially old plastics that might already be degraded.
Clorox wipes contain no bleach
@@Recordology oops
The belt residue on the subplatter is probably a result of the belt slipping. I would use Goo Gone to clean the residue off the sub platter, then use alcohol to finish cleaning.
A keyboard vacuum makes a wonderful way to get dust out of tight spaces. I never use canned air indoors.
Minor quibble. I'm almost entirely certain that's not an AC motor in there. If it was AC you would not have speed adjustments for it, OR be able to change speed by pushbutton. I'm guessing you looked up some specs on it and someone along the line incorrectly put 'AC motor' in those specs. I've caught that error with other turntables.
The only turntables in the 'consumer' market today with an AC motor are units like the U-Turn Orbit and similar, where you have to change the speed by moving the belt from one sheave on the motor pulley to another.
Yes, it's possible to make multi-speed AC motors, but they probably drive the price up considerably.
They used to make AC motor turntables with mechanical speed shifters. But it adds to the complexity of the machine, so companies like U-Turn stick to manual speed shifting, even if it means the belt and motor pulley have to be on the outside of the turntable.
I love your videos. But...
30 mins for a 15min video. Dude pick up the pace. Please?
Like your travel shots.
You go to a Thrift Shop not a Pawn Shop.....
Correct thrift store
Stop withthe ocd about dust
Lol
It use a typical China head shell
Nice very basic turntable.
The motor is plain DC motor you will find in any cassette player, the stroboscope: if it appears to rotate "forward" (clockwise) it runs too fast and if the lines appear to run counterclockwise than it runs too slow.
hello is vinyl stay around at the moment please let me know kinds regards william c adlam I'm looking forward to your reply kinds regards?
blow away the dust