Crosley Rochester Entertainment Center - Paprika (CR66-PA)

by Crosley

Product Details

• ASIN: B000HQ6I0S
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,441 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004

Product Description

mfr: Crosley Imagine a concert hall in your home. The thundering roll of the drums. The clear call of the trumpets. The piping highs of the piccolos. All of these and more with breath-taking life and richness of tone can be yours today with the Crosley Rochester Entertainment Center. A full-featured entertainment console, the Rochester will thrill you with its sound, and excite you with its versatility. Whether you are in the mood for your favorite Sinatra album, your first U2 CD, or a little NPR, the Rochester has you covered. This spectacular unit comes complete with a 3-speed turntable, a programmable CD player, AM/FM radio, and a side mounted cassette deck, all elegantly displayed in a rich, hand-finished, genuine wood cabinet.Belt Driven Turntable Mechanism Plays 3 Speeds - 33 1/3, 45 And 78 RPM Records Plays 7", 10" & 12" Records Diamond Stylus Needle CD Player Programmable 20-Track Memory LED Display Repeat Play Cassette Deck Airplane Tuning Dial Analog Tuner External FM Antenna Dynamic Full Range Stereo Speakers Function Select

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

64 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional System for the Price, August 14, 2009

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R. Gerard (Pennsylvania USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crosley Rochester Entertainment Center - Paprika (CR66-PA) (Electronics)

I'm really not sure what many of the more negative reviews are speaking of. One reviewer spoke of the records playing to quickly. As a musician I found absolutely nothing wrong with the pitch, and even tested the phonograph player's pitch next to a freshly-tuned piano. Nothing wrong.

It seems as though many of the negative reviewers' 'issues' could be solved by reading the instruction manual a bit more carefully. Also, don't be misinformed by the reviews that say the tape deck does not fast-forward. It does. Don't be misinformed by the reviews that say the tone arm won't lift or the turntable won't spin. They do. Again, these are things that can likely be remedied by reading the manual.

It's unfortunate that other customers have had to deal with a defective CD player, although mine has yet to go bad and shows no signs of doing so, though I tend to handle this system as carefully as I handle other electronics I own. The warranty printed in the manual is pretty clear cut about such issues.

I've owned the system for a while and in my household it has played everything from old Beatles to AC/DC to Wagner's Ring Cycle. The sound is great, and I'm sure as long as long as it's not abused or pushed beyond its limits, it will still function as amazingly as it does now..

At under a hundred dollars I'm impressed that it includes iPod capability. Having the four basics plus iPod capability at such a price and in such an attractive package is quite a value.

48 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Deal, June 12, 2007

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J. Real (Lynwood, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crosley Rochester Entertainment Center - Paprika (CR66-PA) (Electronics)

I bought this to listen to some Led Zep LP's, but I also ended up listening to my cd's and they all sound great. I also enjoy talk radio, so this versatile machine is on most of the time and the cassette player plays cassettes, so I can't complain. My mother enjoys it more than I do, she played her old records the other day and she nearly teared up. There's nothing wrong that I can say about the crosley, unlike other record players at amazon, it works just fine. Friends are impressed and for what its worth, its a great deal.

30 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great looking Turntable, However !, January 10, 2007

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Juan C. Drake "Juan Carlos" (Holly Springs, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crosley Rochester Entertainment Center - Paprika (CR66-PA) (Electronics)

This is s great looking turntable but for some reason it does not have Auxiliary audio and speaker outputs , this is necessary to convert my old records on to MP3s and also the volume when you play a record is very soft so I wanted to add extra speakers, other than that it was a great buy !