I have a PLX-1000 and got it last July to celebrate my 50th birthday. I must say it is a gorgeous turntable and built like a tank. I have always wanted a Technics 1200 since the early 90's, but when they returned to production they overpriced their new products. Their lowest tier turntable the MK7 (priced at $1299 when they first came out and now $999) is not worth the price tag. I have no regrets getting the PLX-1000, it is a fantastic turntable.

Edit; I just ordered a pair 👌 Great to see a review from a purely listener’s / audio perspective. I’m a DJ but I also spend hours simply listening. I want a technics but I don’t know about the mk7. It weighs less than the plx500.. The plx 1000 however is modelled on the Technics mk2.

Had this turntable for 12 months now and I absolutely love it. The quality of sound that this produces is stunning! I run it with a Goldring 2100 moving iron cartridge and vintage musical fidelity XLPS phono amp. The sound is so rich clear and detailed and has a fullness which will just make you keep reaching for another album. At this price I doubt you will find a better bit of kit, I looked widely before buying and I absolutely know I made the right choice. I intend keeping it for many years and with the level of build quality on this thing it will last the distance!!

Just got mine Pioneer PLX-1000. This thing is a Beast!!!

Great review, thanks to you I just got mines in the mail today, it was the blue lights for me at first but everything else fell right in line, awesome product.

I owned my model for several months and paired with the VM95ML, love it.

Glad you are enjoying your turntable. Congrats 🎉

Looks good. Thanks for showing it.

love the vibe

Nice review glad you love it

I just got one of these 10-14-23 off Amazon on sale for $700 and am shocked by how good it is. It reeks of quality and my expensive audiophile records have never sounded better. I was using a an AT120, and a vintage dual, and this is a HUGE upgrade. I also have a Fluance 41 and the tonearm and cue lever on the PLX1000 is much better. As others have said, the head shell and tonearm wiring uses a small gauge but I cannot detect any sound degradation. I doubt that upgrading to a heavier gauge would result in any improvement. The only thing you can really "hear" from the table is the cartridge/stylus.

I have the plx1000s and I also have Mk3s and Mk2s...these tables hold there own...mix perfectly with my Vinyl collection...quality decks ...if your not a Dj and you can't mix than you will find negative things on these decks.. you can beat match with analog mixers like urie ,bozak, condensa Rotary mixers ..even if the pitch fader is not analog ...its the skills not the decks...Plx1000s are really good and the reloop 7000s are the same...

Thats an excellent album man, kudos!

Price aside between Pioneer PLX-1000 vs Technics SL-1200GR I would take the Pioneer. That says a lot of the quality and redesign that has gone into the Pioneer.

Anti-skate is usually set the same as your tonearm weight. If 2 grams then 2 on anti-skate. May be different on Pioneer

Great turntable

Sold my Technics 1210mk3s years ago and bought a pair of Audio Technica LP1240s...very happy with them apart from the quality of the gimbles...wouldnt mind buying a PLX1000 to compare...

Thinking of purchasing this turntable. My interest is based on the overall weight and signal to noise ,70db.

Plx is a nice table for audio but weaknesses exist in the tonearm. The vertical arm bearings on mine needed tightening, this really helped the sound. The loose bearing made the timing sound imprecise - a common complaint for these tables that is blamed on the motor. The motor on these guys is actually quite good. The tonearm wire is really not up to the quality of the rest of the unit. Simon at Audiyo has the best options for tonearm wire. Finally, I gussetted the arm and locktite tightened the fasteners. It is a completely different table now, love it. The bearings and tonearm wire are musts.

This one is the bottom which I would recommend if buying new. If buying vintage, even more entry level direct-drive turntables "made in Japan" are perfect choice, but they were not available for 300$ new. At that time price started at somewhere 600$ of today, that is somewhere the same price like PLX-1000 costs today. For less money it is impossible to produce a turntable that works, you can only make a toy. The next rank if buying new would be Technics SL-1200mk7 or SL-1500C.

Amazon and Sweetwater have this on sale at $599 for the moment. I ordered it from Amazon and it will arrive next week. I'm a bit of collector when it comes to hi-fi. I currently have four other turntables which includes a Technics SL 1200 MK7 that I spent around $1200 for. For half the price the Pioneer PLX 1000 appears to be superior in quality to the Technics. I'll be able to judge for myself next week. Coincidently I'll be installing the Nagaoka MP- 110 cartridge that I had as a backup to my MK7.

Perfect turntable, i use it with the mp110.

Ive got the plx 1000’s and the technics mk7’s and this is my personal view on them. Pioneer plx 1000 - high torque and great turntable for scratching. Technics 1210 mk 7 - better for mixing and blending as pitch fader is better dialled in.

It's nice, I just brought a Heyday Turntable at Target, on sale for 50 .. was 100$ It's okay for me and my albums. My stereo is JVC double cassette deck 5 disk CD 💿 and receiver with pioneer 15 with horn tweeters

My vinyl collection at it's peak was 2,000 albums & and other 2,000 singles. Each album is original and average price paid was $3 each in great condition.

I am not a DJ, but the Pioneers look good, My Turntable is a Vintage Technics 1200, from my brothers short DJ career in high school, back in the early 90's

This is one you can easily stick with forever. At price points beyond this, theres not much to gain. I would strongly recommend a change of cartridge next, I love my Nagaoka MP200 but the stylus is not great. I run an ATVM95ML until I can get the Nag retipped. Its a fine neutral cart with the best stylus on the market, a steal for the price which they will increase in February, Id suggest you jump on that before they jack the price. The anti skate is a fickle topic. VTF is the only installation that can be "perfect", the rest are all moving targets. Id think 4 for anti skate is too high, especially for the Nag, but it all depends on the spring tension in the TT. The easiest test to do is to drop the stylus on a flat surface, like the area around the label and see how the arm moves. Then adjust the Anti Skate so the arm moves slowly in either direction or stands still. Usually that is = to the VTF, so 2 in your case but it depends on that spring tension on your deck. I would also recommend heightening the cueing platform a bit, the arm seems to rest pretty close to the record, I can imagine warps being a close call. Simply screw on a screw near the cue platform to adjust it, very easy.

Nice review. I like the dust cover on the Pioneer. For me it's a plus.

I have technics 1200 and Plx1000 Side by Side and do mixes with them Both

Weight (2023 new TT) of the TT's is 15.5 kg (with dust cover and rubber mat). 2014 manual puts the TT at 13.1 kg and 2022 manual at 14.6 kg.

I'm looking for a turntable. Holy Cow, there's so many reviews out there that I'm just stuck in the non-decision Zone. I'd like the Technics 1500 but I don't want to spend that $$$$$. Why buy this 'pro' TT if I'm not going to even use the DJ features? The other TT I'm considering is the Fluance RT85

Hey do you still have this set up? Wondering what the settings are for the plx1000 as I have the same cart on mine. Trying to get VTF and tonearm height set correctly. What number for antiskate as well?

The Brand tells everything.

Looking for the last table between this and fluance rt81

You should worry about the anti-skate...........get a blank calibration record and check ASAP. My PLX 1000 the anti-skate does not work correctly and I am currently working with Pioneer DJ Support to get it corrected.

To what height should the VTA of the turntable arm for the Ortofon concord anniversary 40 cartridge be adjusted?

Finally... My end game

Get a reloop rp-7000mkii high torgue ond and you done

Hell yes, THICKFREAKNESS!

Does it have an inbuilt phono amplifier ?

Hello would you recommend keep those cartridges for dj or get myself a pair of ortofon?

Fine for home use, not for DJing. It's no match for an SL1200mk2/5 regards the analogue pitch and brake.

Does it only come in black

Do you get an extra weight with it for heavier cartridges, like an spu?

Your favorite toy for this week? What about next week?

But, putting Crosely and AT in the same breath is just, wrong. Worlds apart.

In my personal opinion, the Reloop 7000 Mk2 blows this turntable out of the water. The build quality is phenomenal.

Try the Denon VL12. Well made ... designed from the ground up including the tonearm and not a hodgepodge of parts regenerated from the same Hanpin manufacturer as Pioneer, AT and the rest. A sonic bargain at it's price and even the arm clip works better! Competes with much higher priced Technics and outperforms the Pioneer in terms of transparency and dynamics. . Can't go wrong with the Nagaoka's either .. great compliment to your sound.

I measured the WOW on both the PLX1000 and the 1210 MK2, on the Technics it oscillated between 0.04 and 0.08%; on the PLX 1000 I measured values ​​between 0.09 and 0.13% (the variations were detected with measurements on different days). this suggests that Technics' analogue speed control with quartz block is even superior to the digital one of Pioneers.

Need to replace my Pro-Ject RPM 5.1 SE which I'm about to sell and want to go direct drive. At the moment the AT LP140 is not found anywhere and nobody knows when it will be available again. So there are the Pioneer PLX 1000 and the Technics SL1200 MK7. Is the Technics worth 200 bucks more than the Pioneer? Any difference in construction quality? The Technics is assembled in Malaysia, but where do they produce the Pioneer?

Are these metal?

Name that song and artist please

Cartridge must go. Underperformer to

S shaped arms are a bummer to balance perfectly. To many variables .

Blue LEDs though? Way too 2001. Did they look at PS2 or cheap stereos from the 2004.

Great turntable, I have one and the first cartridge I used was a Audio-Technica VM540ML and recently I upgraded to a Audio-Technica VM750SH and sound great. In this video it had the VM540ML. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lddiqtiB07Tce58.html

is it worth the money?

The arm is it's downfall. Can't compete with the rb330

Funny, my $49 Crosley 'Cruiser Deluxe' arm can be 'flicked' released and the arm lowers slowly... that to me is amazing. Though, the Crosley is NOT a high-end turntable; not by a long shot... it is a child's/kid's turntable. So, if a low budget turntable; say, $200 or more does not have this feature, that's a bloody shame.

Made in China?

Bit over priced for me. Like. £100+ pounds for two. On budget so bought two reloop rp-4000 mk2's and a numark scratch mixer two dust covers and control vynil gone back to. DVS do have vynil but am doing as a mid life crisis collecting vynil lol

I am sorry. It's just another OEM dj like turntable. Nothing to do with Pioneer DJ.

I have two 1200s so i dont need anything else. Plus i think its weird how AT and Pioneer try so hard to just plain copy the 1200. They cant come up with their own creation.

all that and nooooo on board pre amp

Far to fast with drop. Omg this deck has real issues