Vinyl for one
Like many other companies, Sony all but stopped selling turntables during vinyl’s years of decline. But also like many other companies, it has been encouraged back to the medium by its revival, both by the numbers and by vinyl’s sheer cool-ness. In 2016 it announced the quite serious PS-HX500 turntable, which received excellent reviews including a Sound+Image award. It proved itself not only on the sonics but for including both its own phono stage, so those without a traditional phono input on their amplifier could plug it into any line-level input, and a USB connection to a computer which, using supplied Sony software, could then easily digitise the vinyl played on the turntable, and at high-res, no less, with the Sony-derived DSD format if you wished.
There was also a lower-level turntable, the PS-LX300USB, which gained less attention but still good reviews for its price, and still managing the inclusion of a phono stage and a USB output option, despite a
