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Summary: Everything I expected...
Review: ...very easy to use and well priced for what it is.
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Summary: Great Turntable
Review: High quality turntable. Great for making digital (mp3) copies of your vinyl records.
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Summary: Great turntable for the money
Review: I bought 2 of these turntables because I like the quiet tone-arm and rumble free platter. 25 years ago I bought a direct drive turntable that cost twice as much and it didn't perform as well brand new as these Sony turntables. You don't have to touch the light weight tone-arm at all. this turntable is a diamond in the rough!
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Summary: Great Turntable
Review: I bought this and hooked it up to my stereo and as soon as I got it up,I played The Beatles White Album on vinyl on this turntable. It worked great and I haven't heard the vinyl version since I was 11 or so. I prefer the CD of course,but had to hear it the way it was originally released.
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Summary: Hinge Broke
Review: I closed the lid on my Sony Turntable and I heard this terrible snap. The hinge jammed and broke. Appears to be a design flaw. Otherwise performs well.
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Summary: Fine if your records are all perfect...
Review: I have a good-sized vinyl record collection, and I wanted to rip all that music into my computer. What I experienced with my first 10 albums is not encouraging. On about half of the albums I kept getting skips on a significant fraction of the tracks I ripped. About half the albums had one or more tracks that would skip. Sometimes 5 or 10 skips on a single track. I became suspicious because I never remembered that much of a problem with my collection, so I replayed them on my 25-year-old JVC component turntable. Most skips disappeared.The problem seems to be that there is no adjustment contols to allow changing the tracking force or the anti-skating force. Do yourself a favor. If you want to rip your vinyl collection to your computer, and you already have a reliable turntable, just get a phono preamp and put it between your turntable and sound card. Amazon sells a good selection of them for less than a third of the price of this turkey.
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Summary: Great turntable at a bargain, plays old records great!!
Review: I was pleased to see my new Sony turntable in only 2 days after my order! I set it up and was playing my old records in just 15 minutes! Its sleek design compliments my entire stereo component system. You can't beat it for the price!!
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Summary: Great turntable at a bargain, plays old records great!!
Review: I was pleased to see my new Sony turntable in only 2 days after my order! I set it up and was playing my old records in just 15 minutes! Its sleek design compliments my entire stereo component system. You can't beat it for the price!!
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Summary: Great turntable for the newcomer.
Review: I'm a newcomer to the vinyl scene. With pretty much no knowledge about turntables I was looking for one that was pretty much idiot proof.
This bad boy fit the bill. Out of the box all you have to do really is attach the drive belt and attach the platter, and depending if you have a phono input on you're receiver, you have to click the built in preamp switch on or off. No calibration of speeds was necessary. Whole process from unpacking to playing LP took 5 minutes at most. My bedroom system consists of the following:
Sony STR-6045 Receiver (1974)
Sony PSLX350H Turntable
Klipsch SB-1 Bookshelf's
Monster Cable & Acoustic Research Interconnects
My receiver has a phono input, so I didn't have to use the built in preamp. The first 2 LP's I tested was a copy of Death Cab For Cutie "Transatlantiscm" and John Coltrane "A Love Supreme". I hit the "Start" button on the front of the turntable and the arm automatically went up, then down on the edge of the record...how easy was that?
Right of the bat I noticed that sound was spectacular. The highs were crisp and the bass was low and distortion free. It could be my particular setup, but I was really impressed. My receiver was built in 1974, so I can only imagine how it would sound through a modern day receiver. I have absolutely no complaints as far as sound quality.
I next hooked up the turntable to my PC to rip some 7" singles that I had acquired. I ran the turntable with the built in preamp on to my SoundBlaster Live! Card with a Monster Cable RCA to mini cable. I ripped the tracks using MusicMatch and encoded at 128kbps. The whole process went off without a hitch. The mp3s sounded great and the process couldn't have been easier.
Now onto my complaints:
1.The overall feel of this turntable is kind of cheap. It seems pretty much all plastic. But then again, at this price what do you expect?
2.The feet are not adjustable.
3.I have heard that replacing the stylus is a total pain. I have not yet had to do so, but it seems according to others that it is only available through Sony for $50. I do suspect that by going to www.needledoctor.com you will be able to find a suitable replacement though, and for considerably less.
To wrap it up, this is a great turntable for a beginner. Spectacular if you take the price into consideration. Right out of the box it was easy to set up and use. While the build quality is questionable, at the price you can't really complain. I do plan to upgrade to a higher quality manual turntable once I read up on how to properly calibrate and care for it.
For vinyl fans here are some cool links:
www.simplyvinyl.com
www.insound.com
www.needledoctor.com
www.sleevetown.com
www.vvinyl.com (If you live in NJ this is must shop
establishment. Support local independent
businesses!)
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Summary: Great Value
Review: I'm not an audiophile, but I do really enjoy good music. This economically-priced turntable has made it quite easy for me to listen to my small record collection. I was rather young when records went out of style so I know very little about how to operate turntables, but I found this one to be extremely easy to use. Another plus is that it has some built-in amplification and can thus not only be used with a regular pre-amp but can also be plugged directly into the sound input port on a computer for the purpose of digitizing tracks. I'm perfectly satisfied with the sound quality of this turntable, although I suspect audiophiles would probably not be. I don't expect them to be shopping in this price bracket in any case. This unit is perfect for those who like me just have a few records they would like to listen to or digitize and don't want a major hassle or expenditure.
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