The images on this page come from a 1977/78 USA catalog kindly provided by Stephen Mogg ; the detail images come from the canadian 1977 6-page catalog kindly provided by David Hersk. The PS-X7 was unfortunately almost invariably very badly photographed in European catalogs...

Sony PS-X7
(june 1977 - 1979)

For once, the rest of us got what the japanese didn't get: the PS-X7 was export only. In Japan, the top end of this mid-end lineup was the PS-X6: same 'table, same BSL motor, same SBMC heavy cabinet, same functions, same feather-touch switches... But the PS-X7 had a carbon-fiber tonearm !

"Mid-end", however, is used here to describe a turntable designed and made during what arguably was Sony's best period. So it may look like a flimsy piece of plastic but it really is NOT.

The only "mid-end" part of the PS-X7 is the tonearm which is unfortunately fixed and isn't the PUA-1600S found on the PS-8750... The X7 is nevertheless a stunner which sold very well then and still astonishes those who -thinking they only get a cool-looking piece of outdated japanese junk- buy one for 50€ and, once properly hooked up, can't believe the sonics of this cool-looking piece of... enduring japanese engineering.