Customer Reviews

Crosley CR712 Autorama Turntable with CD Player and AM/FM Radio, Black

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First, let me say that I was very pleased with the look of this unit. It "looks" like REAL quality when you remove it from the box. That's about where the pleasure ends though. The radio stations don't program well (oodles of static). The sound quality was really bad and I initially planned to buy external speakers until it stopped working. Yep, I bought this unit as a Christmas gift and in 3 days, the recipient told me she walked over to the unit to hit stop on the playing CD and everything went black. She tells me that the carpet probably caused a charge that killed the unit but she wasn't sure. I sent the Crosley back to Amazon with my CD still held hostage. I was very pleased with Amazon though, they gave me a FULL refund, shipping and return charges included. I would buy OTHER brands from Amazon again.

I agree with the other reviewers who said the sound quality was extremely poor, not better than a clock radio. I was forced to use external speakers with the unit just to get an acceptable amount of sound. That is until the CD player completely died a year to the day that I bought it. I returned the unit and would not purchase another Crosley product

This unit has incredibly low fidelity speakers. Not much better sounding than a $30 clock radio. The electronics are pretty cheezy. The power amp only delivers a couple watts per channel. Keep the remote handy because the front panel controls are almost totally useless. All your radio station presets disappear every time you lose power (be it storm or simply unplugging the unit). It just seems like a lot of things you'd take for granted in a $60 boom box are missing in this unit. The turntable is actually one of the better features of the unit, but is is far from audio quality. I wouldn't play any valuable pristine records on it. The CD player is of acceptable quality. It is very cute looking.

this had good sound but broke after just a few months and was almost impossible to find someone to repair it.

Our Crosley CR712 Autorama Turntable with the CD Player and AM/FM Radio in Red completes our black and white kitchen with red accents. We have a red Crosely 1957 telephone as well. We love the radio in the morning for the traffic and weather updates and enjoy the CD Player and Turntable when we are preparing those wonderful dishes for the family. It has the perfect volume for the kitchen area and it is so attractive on the counter that everyone notices it when they walk in. Thank you.