Our Overall Score:
8.8/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Turntables category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £349
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Sony or alternative products in the Turntables category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable
SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable scores 8.7/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Turntables. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Turntables, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Turntables? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable scores 9.5/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Turntables category was £599.00, whilst the cheapest we found was £15.99 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Turntables category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Turntables category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Turntables category. This was £175.11 from the 51 products we found in that category. So SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable actually comes in above average at £349.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £599.00 and the least expensive, which was £15.99. In total we found that of the 51, 4 were more expensive and 45 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable.
Prices of products from Sony
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Sony. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Sony, which was £453.54 of the 318 products we found. So SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable price is below average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Sony was £6.99 with the most expensive coming in at £9999.00.
Prices of products from Sony and in the Turntables category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Sony that sit specifically within the Turntables category.
For this we found that the average price was £222.33, making SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable at £349 actually above average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £349.00 with the lowest priced item being £119.00. In total there were 0 items that were more expensive and 2 that was less expensive.
Reviews of SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable
SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable scores 8.3/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable is.
Overall score
SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable scores 8.8/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Sony so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: SONY PS-HX500 USB Turntable
- Brand: Sony
- Model Number: PSHX500
- Vinyl to digital conversion for PC / MacTwo speedsUSB / RCAFull manual control
- EAN: 4548736016866
- Description: Top features: – Convert your vinyl into High Resolution audio files – USB port and conversion software to connect with your PC – Transfer your records to HDDs and smart devices for portable listening – Enjoy traditional, high-quality listening by connecting to external speakers Convert your vinyl into High Resolution audioMade for avid music fans, the Sony PS-HX500 USB Turntable converts your beloved vinyl records to digital High Resolution Audio files (up to DSD 5.6MHz or PCM 192 kHz/24-bit quality). This two-speed turntable operates at 33-1/3 and 45 RPM for your LP albums and EP singles.DSD 6MHz native conversion preserves every note and sound so you can archive those analogue masterworks and listen to them wherever you go.USB port and conversion softwareSimply connect the PSHX500 to your Mac or PC via USB, play a record and record it digitally to your hard drive or music server using the included conversion software. The turntable provides DSD-recorded DSF files and can also record and play back PCM-recorded WAV files.Use the editing app for Windows and Mac OS X lets you to remove unwanted sections and split tracks.Transfer your records to HDDs and smart devicesRelive those classic albums with their warm sounds and subtle details on your phone, tablet and digital devices. Once you’ve ripped the audio from your records, it’s a simple matter of transferring the music files to your devices for portable enjoyment.You can burn them onto CDs to enjoy the smooth, distinctive sounds of vinyl on your car stereo, Hi-Fi or boombox. Transfer ripped vinyls to high-capacity storage and reduce clutter in your home without losing your treasured albums.Enjoy traditional, high-quality listeningThe Sony PS-HX500 Turntable features an internal phono EQ amp so you can switch between Line and Phono outputs. Use the RCA jacks to connect it to Hi-Fi separates such as an amplifier and speakers (sold separately) so you can play your records the old-fashioned way in their vintage glory.Sound clarity is improved by an insulated design and integrated shell-type tonearm. Its lightweight structure helps to improve low-end response, with a round shape to focus overall sound reproduction. Use the dust cover to reduce vibration and keep the slip mat clean.
- Product ID: 23011119769
