Sony PS-X 800
Data
General
- Manufacturer: Sony
- Model: PS-X 800
- Type: Record player
- Years of manufacture: 1981 - 1984
- Made in: Japan
- Color: Black
- Power consumption: 45,6 W
- Dimensions: 440 x 120 x 445 mm (WxHxD)
- Weight: 12 kg
- Drive new price approx.: 1'848 DM
Connections
- Outputs: Cinch [gold-plated]
- Inputs: -
Technical Data
- Drive: direct, crystal controlled
- Motor: BNL (brushless, slotless linear)
- Speed: 33 1/3 and 45 upm
- Synchronous speed variation: ± 0.015% (wow and flutter)
- Rumble noise ratio: 85 dB
- Turntable: 320 mm Ø, aluminium
- Operating mode: fully automatic, can also be operated manually
- Pitch: -
- Tonearm: Tangential
Special Features
- Cast housing made of low-resonance SBMC
- Run-up angle to stabilisation: 180° at 33 1/3 upm
- platter weight (incl. damping): 1,85 kg
- Biotracer tangential tonearm with electron. Regulation of tracking force, deflection, damping and feed rate
- Automatic measurement of the system weight (headshell + TA) and adoption of the adjustable scaling of the tracking force
- Tangential transport electrical, continuous, proportional recognizing to the real sound carrier scanning feed
- Manual feed for fast track search forward and backward in 2 selectable speeds each
- Separate drive for the fast feed (manual as well as automatic), independent from the drive of the feed for the playback mode
- Permissible system weight: 10.0 ... 29 g (incl. headshell)
- Three basic ranges: 10-17 g (without additional counterweight)
- Expandable to 16-23 g and 22-29 g (with two different additional counterweights)
- Headshell included: SH-156 (7.2 g)
- Pickup mute function: (activated when setting down and when picking up)
- Repeat function
- Automatic detection of the record diameter
- Automatic safety for tonearm
- Short-stroke buttons for operation (accessible when the cover is closed)
- Illumination of the turntable
- Height-adjustable gel-filled shock-absorbing feet
Remarks
- Other models in the same series:
- Sony PS-LX 2
- Sony PS-LX 3
- Sony PS-LX 4
- Sony PS-LX 5
- Sony PS-X 55
- Sony PS-X 500
- Sony PS-X 600
- Sony PS-X 700
- Sony PS-X 800
Pictures
- Extract from brochure: Sony PS-X 800
- Picture: Sony PS-X 800
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- Image: Sony PS-X 800
- Image: Sony PS-X 800
- Image: Sony PS-X 800
Reports
Links
- External link to website "The Vintage Knob": [1]