PLX-500-K Direct Drive DJ Turntable, Black

This is just sweet, right out of the box with it’s supplied cartridge. No frills turntable solidly built with a no belt direct drive motor and a beautiful stainless steel tonearm. Dust Cover, Cartridge and cables all supplied in the box. Audio quality is really good with deep bass and highs coming out clearly . Played 30 year old vinyls and they sounded so natural and good. Just superb. The unit weights over 10 KG and that is a testament to the material used in its build quality . The platter is steel but most of the body and switches are engineered plastic and not metal / wood . The ONLY thing you must change is the platter mat as the supplied mat has very lean padding and changing it to a high quality mat will give you better bass notes and depth. I upgraded the supplied cartridge with an ORTOFON Red cartridge which does not break the bank. The cartridge you use plays a key role in the audio fidelity and the sound tonality. Its super important in any HiFi turntable setup.

Excellent product..... Direct Drive Turntable..... Inbuilt pre-amp..... Pioneer plx500 is a world famous model ... Name is sufficient. Packaging was very good also. Received in mint condition. Thank you Amazon.

Nice direct drive turntable in very reasonable price. However, I found the Tone Arm is very light and unstable. The TT is shipped with Pioneer cartridge which produces decent sound.

Received the item in a damaged box. Inside almost all the styrofoam packaging moulds were broken. Found Dust cover with a huge crack. And the 45rpm EP Record adapter missing. Now I am confused. It seems to be previously opened and returned box. However, the instrument worked as it should be. Now I am confused. Will returning it solve the problem at all? Is there any way to get a fresh duct cover only? I do not ned the 45 RPM adaptee.

Return scheduled on Wed 4th March.. no body has come yet... piece is faulty... very Very frustrating.... meeting lawyer tomorrow for filing complaint in Cunsumer court ..

The product is good but packing done by the seller was not good due to which the dust cover received in broken condition. Extremely disheartening😔

Sturdy Turn Table. I have connected it to my Sony Home Theater System, and alas - perfect music..! Please note: 1. It is not like plug and play like Automatic or semi-automatic Turn Tables. You need to do some (relatively simple) setup to get it going. 2. All required accessories and cables are included. My Home theater and PLX-500 are not very near, and the cable provided by Pioneer helped the gap (as well as male-female connectivity) 3. It is bit heavy at 10+Kg; so install on a good, sturdy table. Use spirit level to ensure proper plater level, if required adjust it using the levelling adjustment of feet. 4. I am happy with the sound - Cartridge is decent. 5. Played almost 50 years old records, and got excellent playback. 6. As there is no auto-stop, be prepared to depend on alternate reminder if you are into multitasking, ha, ha! 7. Used for a month, listened to variety of records - Stereo, non-stereo, Western, Instrumental, Bollywood, regional, new pressing as well as more than 50years old. Very good reproduction. Good Turntable, overall very happy!

I originally purchased a different brand, belt-driven turntable, and it was complete garbage. It had constant issues and was a huge disappointment, so I decided to give the Pioneer DJ PLX-500 a try. I'm really glad I did. This direct-drive turntable has been excellent from day one. It's solidly built, easy to set up, and I've had absolutely no problems with it. The direct-drive motor is reliable, and everything works exactly as it should. I also like that you can play your vinyl records at different speeds, making it compatible with a variety of records. The sound quality is great, and it has made listening to my vinyl collection enjoyable again. If you're looking for a dependable turntable for home listening or you're a vinyl collector, I highly recommend the Pioneer DJ PLX-500. It's a huge step up from the cheap belt-driven model I bought first, and it's been worth every penny.

Packaging perfetto, arrivato 2 gg prima. Prodotto conforme a quanto atteso.

Although aesthetically this Pioneer DJ PLX-500-K is an almost dead ringer for the Audio Technica AT-LP120 it replaces in my HiFi setup, the build quality and functionality is noticably better. The motor of the PLX-500K is much smoother than the AT-LP120, and the sound from the built in pre-amp is noticabily clearer, and less distorted in the higher ranges, and less “muddy” in the lower range. I’ve paired my AT with a Shure M44-7 Cartrige and even then the stock needle on the Pioneer sounds clearer. I can’t wait to try out my Shure M97xE High-Performance Magnetic Phono Cartridge on my new Pioneer PLX-500-K! There is no wobble in the platter of the Pioneer (which was quite noticeable in the AT). Couldn’t justify the price of the Pioneer Pro DJ PLX-1000 at the moment, and the TECHNICS SL1210MK2 would have probably resulted in my sleeping on the couch next to my HiFi if my wife found out the price, so the PLX-500-K was definitely a good compromise between price and quality. Only had this turntable for a short time, but so far so good. Now that this Pioneer turntable has found a spot as the crown jewel of my listening room, I’ve relegaded the AT to my bedroom for personal listening when others in the house aren’t a eager to share my listening experience. :)

Great buy, solid system. Good sounds and i can play the oldies corrections i have

While it may not have quartz-regulated speed, the speed is very accurate and there is no audible wow and flutter. Currently I have no equipment to measure that. The motor is at least as good as Audio Technica AT-LP120XUSB, or better- it spins up and slows down faster. The tonearm is exactly the same. The build quality seems better (buttons and general feel of the device). Sadly, the output cable is attached permanently and quite short - about 90cm. And there is no ground connector on the turntable. The built-in preamp is OK to see if it works, but that's about it (same story as AT-LP120XUSB that I had before moving). You really should get a separate preamp (Fosi Audio X2 is good and cheap-ish), that improves the sound more than upgrading the cartridge. The included cartridge is actually pretty good, I was happily surprised by it, since it's conical and has no specifications given other than that - I will keep using it until the stylus is old and then upgrade. And it does come adjusted well enough, at least on mine. Sounds best with 3g tracking force and 2.5g anti-skating. But to get it to sound best, get a much thicker slipmat, or just put a rubber one ON the included felt one - the tonearm height is adjustable, but at minimum setting it's still a little too high for the included cartridge. Mine sounds best after adding a 3mm rubber mat on the existing one, and then setting thearm height to 0.8mm. The height adjustment does audibly affect the highs and lows, and it is the reason to get this over the AT-LP120X (there is a bit more or less bass, but more importantly the highs get least distorted with the correct arm height, especially in the inner groove). This height adjustment lets you use cartridges of different heights in the future, without customizing the headshell or doing something equally wacky- the angle at which the cartridge is is important, as it makes the sides of the stylus parallel to the sides of the stylus used to cut the original record, and thus your stylus will follow them more accurately. And that angle xepends on the arm height. You can also get an Audio Technica AT-LP140X and it has that height adjustment, but has no preamp and is more expensive than this Pioneer PLX-500 AND a better preamp. So the Pioneer is a more cost-effective option that will probably be at least just as good. Also the lid on the black version of PLX-500 is darker-tinted clear instead of just clear, this may affect your colour choice (there is also a white version of this turntable). The legs have a lot of travel, so you can level it properly even on a saggy old shelf. But probably don't use furniture so flimsy that it tilts when you open the lid, this would make leveling difficult. The anti-skating does work, as in adjusting it does make the arm move inwards or outwards on a smooth surface, no idea if it's accurate though. And it does seem to have quartz speed control, as there is in fact a quartz resonator connected to one of the chips on the motor controller board (the chip name is painted over though. A second resonator is for the USB ADC, but I don't mean that one). And you most likely will need to do some simple modifications if you want an Audio Technica cartridge, as there is a low-pass filter on the preamp board, and it's after the switch for some reason. So it's always in circuit. And that increases the capacitance, and most AT cartridges require an extermely low capacitance that probably the cable alone has. But it's literally bridging 2 inductors and removing 2 capacitors, and maybe replacing the cable with jacks if you are so inclined.