Customer Reviews
Turntable 
2008-07-31
Easy to set up, great accuracy, clean uncluttered sound, perfect for my old 60's & 70's albums.
the turntable that got me into vinyl! 2008-07-03
the sound is suprisngly good but i used the preamp on my reciever instead of the one built in.
speed is abit off on this but not bad.
you will instantly tell if you like the sound of vinyl more than cd. if you do, join the club!
Great Value For The Price 
2008-06-22
I started buying records a few years ago to hang up on the wall but recently decided that I wanted to start listening to them. A friend had this record player at his house and I really enjoyed it and wanted one of my own. For being a Sony product, this is definitely a great price. The records sound great and this machine is simple to set up and use. I did my fair share of shopping around for this specific record player and Amazon was the only place that I found it at this price.
TIP: This record player has the stereo (red/white) output cables built in, coming out of the back. Since I don't have an up to date stereo system that has a receiver with the stereo (red/white) input, I bought a stereo to 1/8th (headphone jack) cable. This allows me to connect the record player into this cable and from that plug it into my speakers that have a headphone jack (1/8th) input. This lets me listen to the record player through my speakers without having the required stereo (red/white) input anywhere.
Maybe some of you know this already, but I thought this might help.
great player - some knowledge needed for speed tweaks... 2008-05-28
I got this record player from a friend who wasn't using it any longer. It's a great player, and the built-in pre-amp is great. My player, however, was playing slowly, so I got a new belt, and it was still slow. I went to a local record shop and he said it could cost me as much as the player for him to figure out what was wrong and fix it. He then said it was probably a slippery slope and it will just break more even if I did fix it. I called Sony, and they said they knew nothing about how to fix it, but I could pay to ship it to them in Texas and then pay $51 for a refurbished replacement.
As it turns out, nothing was wrong with it at all - it just needed a speed adjustment, which I found was right on the motor itself. There are 2 rubber slots that say 33 and 45 that can be accessed from the bottom of the player. After doing an online search for a "printable strobe" (a device that has lines or circles, that under a fluorescent light [it won't work under normal lights] will appear to be still while the player is moving), I was able to use a VERY small flathead screwdriver (like, for fixing computers or eyeglasses), which inserts right into the black rubber slots on the motor, and tweak the speed with VERY slight adjustments. It now plays wonderfully and at the correct speeds.
The player itself is extremely easy to use - and while not quite an audiophile player, it will get the job done for those of us that wanna hear the hiss and pop of our old records for nostalgia sake.
sony turntable PSLX250H 
2008-05-23
Good basic turntable. Can be started by push button, but I prefer manually placing the needle on the record. Very easy to hook up, like the dust cover better than the clear plastic on my old one.
Very Good Choice 2008-05-14
Sony's PS-LX250H is an entry-level belt-drive turntable that offers fully automatic operation. It's an easy way to get back into the vinyl game, particularly if your current amp doesn't have a phono gain stage. The PS-LX250H has an onboard phono preamp that'll boost the levels, allowing you to hook into any RCA jack on your amp. It can play back records at both 33.3 RPM (revolutions per minute) and 45 RPM, and comes with a plastic, hinged dust cover.
Good if you want to replace it in a few years 2008-05-08
While it lasts, this is a great turntable. I've had it for a few years and haven't had any problems with it (until now). And if you're considering getting a turntable that's this cheap, you probably don't have expensive enough speakers to notice any difference between this turntable and a high-end audiophile turntable.
But as other reviewers have noted, there's not much you can do with this after the stylus wears out. The manual says that happens after 500 hours of play (I listen to a lot of old, beat-up records, so it happened a lot earlier for me). After that, you pretty much need to buy a new turntable. The cartridge isn't replaceable at all (I think this has become standard for main-stream brand turntables), and a new stylus costs about $55, more than half the cost of the entire machine. 500 hours isn't much when you can get a turntable from another brand such as Audio-Technica for only about twice the price that will last you a lifetime.
Perfect for my needs 2008-04-26
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.
Simple, Functional, Just Right. 2008-04-18
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!
Sony needs to revamp this machine 
2008-04-17
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.
