Sony brings back retro full swing with the announcement of a new premium turntable that allows vinyl owners to enjoy grooving on the go. The Sony PS-HX500 will allow vinyl lovers to convert their collection into High-Resolution Audio quality digital files.

The PS-HX500 takes a classical approach to the turntable design, with an aluminium die-cast platter, belt driven by a two speed motor. A high density 30mm acoustic plinth is featured, along with a newly designed, 5mm rubber mat and four insulator feet.

The components is newly designed to provide the best possible sound quality. It comes with a straight tone arm, designed with the stylus tip located in the central axis of the arm, to ensure excellent stereo balance. The arm also features an integrated round head shell that minimises resonance, for pure sound reproduction. An anti-skating device is incorporated into the arm assembly, along with an arm cueing system. A moving magnet cartridge is supplied with tracking force and balance easily adjustable.

This will be the first turntable to support Double-rate and Single-rate DSD (5.6MHz/1bit, 2.8MHz/1bit) for a high quality and accurate reproduction of your music. With a high quality DSD native converter, users can copy analogue tracks to a PC as a digital file, up to High-Resolution Audio quality. So you can play your favourite music from vinyl on a compatible PC, mobile, portable music-player, or in their car. The record player comes with an integrated phono preamp, allowing direct connection to an external amplifier for high-fidelity home audio playback.

A vinyl can be easily converted to High-Resolution Audio files on the user’s PC and edited in post-production with the PS-HX500 PC application software.Creative users can record tracks after connecting the computer to the turntable and later edit, title, cut, or combine tracks using the downloaded application.

The PS-HX500 is priced at RM2,699.00 and is now available at all Sony Store outlets.