Sound quality

No preamp

I was looking for a decent, inexpensive turntable with a preamp to connect to a PC sound card to digitize LPs. After buying and returning THREE different Sony LX250H units for various reasons(what a total piece of junk), I dropped another $60 for the Technics and a separate preamp. Should have done this from the start - the Technics was superior in every way. Worked perfectly for intended use.

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Sony LX250H (JUNK!)

Easy to set up and use, nearly foolproof

Not fully automatic

I owned this turntable for nearly 4 years before selling it to a friend earlier this year. Never had any problems with
it, sounded great with the Audio Technica AT331LP cartridge
(also purchased from J & R Music World). The cartridge was
a bit difficult to install, however. This turntable now has
a cartridge included, not sure of the quality of this cartridge. Sold it because I wanted a fully automatic unit.

i have experienced no skipping on circa 100 LP's ranging in age from 30 to 15 years old and well used. I am not an expert audiophile but the turntable has worked absolutely fine.

none so far

a decent product producing a good sound with rock, r&b. a great addition to the rather clinical sound of a CD player.

When it works, it preforms really well for a relatively cheap turntable.

It has a very difficult time playing any of my older, slightly scratched records. Actually I've noticed that this player just doesn't want to play anything but new records. I've got a bunch of my parents older stuff that's not even necessarily scratched and it just skips and skips and skips.

It's not a bad player for $165, that said it's not a very good one either. With new source material it preforms flawlessly. I like a lot of electronica type stuff and everything that I've purchased and played on this, it's played really well. Then I got a whole bunch of older records and it just won't stop skipping. I bought some Gruv-Glide and cleaned up all the old discs and it still just doesn't want to stop skipping. Maybe I should be a better stylus? I have no idea. If you want a cheap turntable for use with newer records then this is a decent deal, but if you plan on playing a lot of The Carpenters or Neil Diamond then you may want to look elsewhere.

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A really old one in a wooden cabinet and my parents old Fisher (sp?) one.