Features:

  • EASY OPERATION: Effortlessly enjoy your favorite records with one-step auto start, stop and return
  • TWO SPEEDS: 33 1/3 rpm and 45 rpm, with the 45 rpm adaptor stowed neatly in a slot beneath the deck
  • HIGH QUALITY AUDIO: Built in switchable phono output / line out phono preamp and 3 gain settings
  • USB RIPPING: Rip vinyl records to digital MP3 files on your computer to take a favorite LP on the go
  • WIRELESS CONNECTION: Connect to wireless speakers, headphones or other Bluetooth enabled devices
  • WIRED CONNECTION: PSLX310BT turntables include RCA cables for plugging directly into a stereo system
  • STABLE PLATTER: An aluminum die-cast platter reduces vibration for increased clarity and hi-fi sound
  • STRAIGHT TONEARM: A newly designed aluminum pipe tonearm gives the record players improved tracking
  • IN THE BOX: Turntable, removable dust cover, vibration dampening slip mat, 45 adaptor, USB B cable
Simple, Easy Turntable with that nice Vinyl sound

This is a very good modern turntable. With three ways to listen; Bluetooth, USB or RCA plugs, you have a good variety for attaching to what ever you use for an amp/speaker system. The turntable comes with the platter separate from the main base. Easy to install, with a belt drive that you pull the belt over the spinner and you are ready to listen. Easy to hook up to your Bluetooth speaker system, it finds and connects fast. The tone arm is simple, with a simple system for basic use. No fancy stuff here, but not necessary if you just want to get back into that old collection of records you have stored away. With the Bluetooth, the sound was fine. I noticed no delays, no distortion from the wireless mode. It had that "brilliance" you get from analog but with so nice an ease of use. No wires means you can place the turntable anywhere. It has a nice dust cover and when put down hard with use, it stops for one split moment and continues on. No bump sounds. The quality is fine. You can adjust the gain but I noticed very little difference other than a little louder. I have 63 year old ears, listening to rock and roll and jazz forever. So the sound was very pleasing to me after not listening to vinyl for so long on my systems. Smart digital conversion is amazing these days. The turntable is light, simple and for ease of use, for music lovers who just want to listen to their old stuff and reminisce...this is wonderful. A great deal, you don't want to spend less, the quality drops down fast for lower priced converting turntables. You can do direct recording from your disk to computer through the USB or Bluetooth. In this "age of overly compressed music", you will find this a dream!

Great record player with automatic controls

This Sony PS-LX310BT Belt Drive Turntable couldn't be any easier to setup. The box is pretty large - lots of styrofoam padding protecting the turntable - and it was then placed in an even larger Amazon box (don't know why, they could have just put a shipping label on the product box). That one small gripe aside, setup was very easy. Installed the lid and needle, and plugged it into my receiver. I put a record on the turntable and pressed the "auto play" button and it moved the needle and lowered it automatically. Works really well, and sounds great from what I can tell (I'm not an audiophile or anything). Have enjoyed listening to LPs but don't have many so now I'm constantly shopping for records.

Excellent value and sound

I was very happy to get a new turntable and my first blue tooth capable turntable. I'm a baby boomer so I've gone through my share of turntables over the decades. In recent years I tried at least three or four that were compatible with a lap top. I thought I was getting something for the future but sadly I had horrible luck. That said I gave up on turntables for awhile. Then this opportunity came up and the thought of using a blue tooth speaker intrigued me plus the fact that it was Sony product. While assembling the various parts , following the instructions carefully, I thought I had lost the rubber that was taped down that goes around the motor pulley. It was attached to one side but I didn't see it and panicked as I thought I had broken it before I got to use it. As you might figure out , depending on your knowledge, there was no need to panic. Anyway I packed it up and took it to a turntable repair shop. I was willing to buy a replacement rubber but it was not needed. This is where the fun begins. The guy asks me what's the problem and he immediately found it attached. For some reason I thought when the tape was released it had flew off to unknown parts because I couldn't find it. So, I felt pretty dumb. The tech, who was quick to tell me of his experience at Panasonic said it needed a counter weight. Who am I to question a tech, right? I told him I threw out the packing and my trash had been picked up already. After his lecture on not throwing away packing I looked through my packing list and instructions and informed him there was no counterweight for the arm. He then gets out a fancy measuring of weight device for the need. He then says the weight needed adjustment but the knob did not make any adjustments. If this all sounds confusing imagine how I felt! A combination of dumb, perplexed, confused and feeling like I was being taken for a ride. I asked him why doesn't it adjust? He then says the spring inside was probably missing. How could that be I say. He then goes on to say from his years of experience at Panasonic it was probably a factory defect and I should send it back. What? I knew it would work, thanked him for his help, paid $20 for one hour of service and I got the hell out of there. Despite his suggestion to send it back because the arm weight couldn't be adjusted, I went home and immediately put a record on and paired it to my blue tooth speaker. It worked fine. Apparently no counterweight is needed and the arm doesn't need adjusting because it plays great. It is a little noisy when it lifts to drop the needle but once on the record it is smooth and quite. It never skips or glides over the record so the weight is fine. I play a variety of music styles and just leave it on the mid level. I've played old vinyl that I have had since the 60's to current new vinyl and it sounds great to my old ears. There is no popping or hiss from my old records. It is a simple piece of equipment to use with the push of a button. The dust cover is a nice feature and the controls are handy and easily accessible. The sound quality is good with the blue tooth speaker I use. Other than the experience I had when I thought I had lost a part, which was really my panicking, it has been trouble free. For an entry level turntable I think this is a good choice. I am enjoying my vast old vinyl collection and enjoying some of the new vinyl being released of old and new music alike. if you're a new or old hobbyist, record aficionado or novice, this is a good turntable to start playing your records on.

Love This!

I absolutely love the Sony PS-LX310BT turntable. I have an old Techniques turntable along with about a thousand albums stored in my basement. I did not want to go through the process of hooking up that turntable with a receiver and separate speakers in my living room. This was a godsend. All I had to do was find a home in my office for the Sony turntable and use the Bluetooth to connect to my wonderful Marshall Woburn II speaker in my kitchen and voila, I can now listen to all those old Supertramp and Frank Zappa albums without the cluttering of wires and shelves everywhere. To add to the convenience, it sounds great and looks slick. The ease of use was an added bonus. Simply touch the start button and the arm lifts itself and drops down gently on the album with no need to lift up the dustcover. And, unlike some models, the arm returns home and shuts off when the album is over. I love it when companies combine quality with simplicity. Not to mention that it’s reasonably priced. Sony did a great job with packing this up for shipping and the instructions were simple. If you have a need to plug in, it does come with RCA cables as well. I had a slight hiccup getting it set up and contacted the company. They were very easy to get through to, which is so nice compared to many other corporations. All I had to do was reboot the turntable to make the connection. And it also came with a 45 adapter. I have a box full of old 45’s somewhere in my basement. I can’t wait to find them and play all my old singles that I haven’t played since the 1980’s! Bottom line, I couldn’t be more pleased. I have nothing negative to say.

Nice mix of retro turntable and modern convenience at a terrific price

Okay, I admit it - I've been a home audio geek long enough to have fond memories of when the best sounding music available in a home was that coming off a vinyl record played on a high-end turntable connected to an expensive audio system. I have great memories of my long departed Empire Troubador and the Joseph Grado cartridge that made it sing. Thus, this Sony turntable triggered a strongly nostalgic feeling, and I was really eager to hear what it would sound like. In the "good old days", serious audiophiles would choose turntables part by part. You of course wanted a unit that had precisely steady rotation at 33 RPM, with low "rumble" (the noise the motor adds to the signal). Then you wanted a tonearm that was as light and friction-free as possible so as to put as little force as possible in the grooves of your little vinyl treasures. And finally you wanted a cartridge that has a stylus small enough to make perfect contact with the pits and valleys in your LP's so that you could get the best possible frequency range with the least possible downward force. Unfortunately, Sony doesn't provide all the detailed stats needed to do a deep dive into turntable performance, so I approached the review as opinions on build quality, convenience, performance and a more subjective assessment of sound quality. In terms of build quality, the Sony is much better than I expected at the price point. Many of the most popular old-school designs rely on heavy platters and belt drive to keep the rotational speed steady and to isolate the motor from the record since the belt drive system acts as an insulator. Sony follows this design, and from what I can tell, it's pretty successful at spinning your records at the right speed. A good torture test is any record with a sustained medium to high frequency note...if it tends to "wander", your turntable isn't spinning accurately enough. Happy to say I had no such issues with this Sony. The tonearm/cartridge combo is also essential to getting good sound and to protecting your records. The stylus on most players is a diamond or something equally hard, and if it's heavy or it doesn't float along the grooves with almost zero friction, it can act like a jack plane, lopping off the small ridges that are in fact the high frequency parts of your music. This is why records played over and over start to sound muddy and dull. I can't say that I've played any of my records enough to cause this particular problem, but Sony's turntable doesn't seem to have any obvious adjustments in this regard, so you're sort of stuck with the configuration it comes with, and that seems to be a steady 3g tracking force. Most people will buy this because of the Bluetooth connectivity, and indeed, that approach works well and is incredibly convenient. Plug in the turntable anywhere you like, pair with your favorite Bluetooth device, and you're listening to vinyl without cables or wires. I was happy to see that the turntable supports Bluetooth aptX - a higher quality sound transmission protocol common on many top audio products. With aptX, I found that the sound from the turntable was about as good as the average Bluetooth speaker or headset can handle. If you want something other than Bluetooth, there's also a USB output for sending audio to a computer, as well as traditional "phono" or "line" level outputs. I didn't try the USB connection, but I did connect the turntable to my high-end AV system using the "phono" level outputs and a good quality audio cable. This mode provides notably better sound quality than Bluetooth, assuming you have audio equipment that's up to the task. I thought about how to fairly evaluate the sound quality of the Sony turntable, and without a roomful of audio test equipment, the best I thought to do was to find something I had on vinyl and compare it to the same content on other media. In the end, I thought to compare the same music I have on SACD or DVD-A (those are super-high resolution CDs) with vinyl played on the Sony turntable, and then the same songs downloaded from Apple Music in the highest quality format. It was no surprise to me that the SACD and DVD-A content was far and away the best sounding: crystal clear, no noise at all, and incredibly dynamic sound. In comparison, the vinyl was somewhat noisy - like many analog formats, there's a tendency towards a constant high-frequency hiss in the background (Sony claims a 50db signal to noise ratio, versus 110db for SACD, DVD-A and some other digital format. The frequency range wasn't as wide, even though this is an area where vinyl does compete well against digital products, and certainly the sound seemed "compressed" to my ear. To be clear, these results were expected - no analog record player in this Sony's price range would come close to a SACD or DVD-A disc in audio performance. What was surprising to me was that the gap wasn't as enormous as I expected it to be...yes, super-high resolution digital sounded better, but the analog didn't sound so much worse I wanted to get up and turn it off. The even bigger surprise to me was how good the vinyl performed against popular online formats. In every case, I think I preferred the vinyl sound to the downloaded music. Add to the above comparisons a good thick dust cover, well-placed controls and ease of use, and I think Sony has a winner with this product. Bottom line is that if you have a pile of old vinyl records laying around, or you want to try some, then this Sony Bluetooth record player is a great way to get started with credible audio performance at an amazing price. Unless you're ready to spend thousands of dollars on higher end gear, I don't think you'll find anything better.

Great connectivity

After reading all the reviews and calling Sony I could not find anyone who had tried to connect this turntable to a Bluetooth receiver. Even Sony could not verify this . The turntable specs do not mention if this is feasible . I am happy to say that it is posible . My Denon 2400H receiver connects wirelessly in perfect fashion . Music comes out of my Kef speakers effortless and with nice sound ! This is frosting on a great Sony product. Amazed at a great value . Sony has hit a home run! Remember it’s a great product ,good sound.

Is it worth an extra 30-80 dollars compared to an Audio-Technica entry level turntable? It might be.

I have an Audio-Technica with bluetooth (AT-LP60 BT) that can be found significantly cheaper than this new Sony turntable. (Amazon lists different colors for this basic model between 130-180, depending on if sales are running). I don't find that the Sony is offering anything special to entry-level turntable buyers aside from a good looking bluetooth & USB capable turntable. There is a $200 AT model that seems to be what Sony is really aiming for, but that unit offers a universal headshell as well as some fancy sounding vibration-dampening materials. But I have to give Sony some credit for the following: USB ripping The turntable stops spinning much quicker than my AT. Minor thing and maybe there's a design reason the AT seems to keep rotating until the arm is back in the nest... The Bluetooth on the Sony connected with my Denon speaker with no issue, first try. I still can't get my AT to connect to the speaker. The body of the Sony is wider and gives off a higher-quality vibe. The tinted lid also hides fingerprints easily. The included turntable pad for the Sony is superior to the AT. The Sony turntable disc is aluminum, which is better for dampening. Now, does this add up to 200? Well, if we look at the $200 Audio-Technica-AT-LP3BK, which boasts vibration-dampening features (also has aluminum turntable), a hydraulic stylus arm, and higher quality build materials, the Sony looks weaker. YET, that AT LP3BK doesn't have bluetooth. So, this Sony gets you Bluetooth connectivity, USB connectivity, and a quality build.

Turntable for two worlds

This turntable fits well into very different user worlds. First world.. As vinyl has resurged, so has the need for value priced turntables. This is a nice, mid priced and quality turntable that someone diving into vinyl can get and hook to their stereo and get true analog sound. At $200 this turntable has solid features without a ton of bells and whistles, and a nice automated tone arm and stylus that simply work well. The build quality is nice, not super heavy duty and over built, simply nice and done well. For someone newish to vinyl (or wanting to upgrade from a cheap turntable) and wanting to experience and appreciate the sound of analog, this is a good approach to test the waters. I have a very high end audio setup (AKA a lot of money invested), purchases like this turntable are the smartest way to cautiously work your way up (or not) in this world. I definitely would recommend this Sony turntable for this wold of users. Second world.. Another distinctly different market for this turntables are people that have old vinyl records from their youth and want to listen to them. My uncle has records older than me that were never transferred to CD. For these consumers, pairing this turntable with a Bluetooth speaker or headphones means instantaneous connection to their treasured memories and sounds without needing a who audio setup to support the turntable. I emphatically recommend this turntable for these people. ReView notes.. - I found pairing to Bluetooth speakers to be easy and intuitive - The sound was nice (not chills down my spine, but real world nice) - The are 3 buttons to play a record (play, stop, raise/lower tone arm) and a button elsewhere to pair to Bluetooth. Simple and effective and smooth. - The player takes some assembly, not much but enough to be aware of that. Go forth and enjoy

Solid turntable

Who would've thought that vinyl would make such a comeback in recent years? Here where I live, there's a great store devoted to re-selling only LPs and 45s. Occasionally I'll treat myself to purchasing something there. Fortunately, I had the good sense to hang on to a lot of my vinyl records from years ago. And this Sony turntable makes it easy to play them right now. Follow the step-by-step instructions to put this turntable together. Take your time to ensure you get everything assembled properly -- takes about 15 minutes or so. It's an exciting feeling when it's ready to use and you put those first records onto it (see my photos). The turntable connects easily to your bluetooth devices. I use it with a large bluetooth portable speaker setup and the sound is amazing -- clear, vibrant and warm. (Any music aficionado knows how much warmer vinyl sounds compared to digital.) There's everything you need right here in the box to have a fantastic listening experience: the turntable, plastic cover lid, cables (if you want to connect it to your receiver) and adapter for playing 45s. You can also hook it up to a computer via USB cable (not included). The whole thing feels solid and high quality. It's been awhile since I had a new turntable, or a new Sony electronic device. This was worth that wait.

love listening to vinyl again!

First off, this was well packaged, with detailed instructions on the box as to how to properly unpack and assemble. Instructions were simple. And the appearance of the product is very elegant and classic. The sound quality is as good as your equipment, since this works with whatever bluetooth or analog equipment you pair it with. I love being able to listen to my old vinyls again! recommended.

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