Customer Reviews

Emerson NR134 Heritage Home Stereo System

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I got this as a present for my mother for christmas! I was apprehensive about getting a unit like this because reading reviews on simalar items it seemed that the CD player would either be broken or crap out prematurly. My mother has used this unit every day and it looks great and sounds great in the living room!

Pro's: Looks great, the actualy record player parts arent to chintsy, the sound out of the speakers are actually really good, picks up radio stations very well, USB hook up it splendid, has a head phone jack, easy to figure out, remote is very easy to use.

Con's: Record player sounds like it did back in the day, so if your looking for immaculate sound i wouldn't recomend it! Although it has great sound, there isn't a hookup for additional speakers, for surround sound. When you hook up ur MP3 player or IPOD to the unit u loose control of what you get to play- which works for me becuase i'm a big fan of shuffle. It just goes from where ever you left off- playlist or whatever.

If you just want a unit that will play your Records,CD's, MP3 & Radio it does this very well. But if you want a unit that will do more with a record than remenice to what they used to sound like then don't bother!

This is just an unbelievable product and for less than $110.The turntable works beautifully,I played records that I haven't heard in 10 years or more.The over all sound is great,and the cabinet is quite attractive.The radio and dvd player,both work fine.The only negative, is the remote wasn't in the box.I emailed them and they responded the next day,and told me the remote was on the way.the remote got here fairly fast and everything is fine.I've 2 other Emerson products and both work extremely well.A very good product.... I use this in my computer room and is all the stereo I need-.

This product arrived damaged, but one look at how it is made showed me that it never stood a chance of surviving the rigors of shipment. Don't waste your money - TEAC makes a much better system.

I must point out, however, that Amazon did an amazing job of handling the return and the refund!

Love its look, but bought it for the remote. NO volume control via the remote! :(.... So my desire to listen to the radio & control the commercials I listen to from across the room? NO GO! And of course can't turn it up/down, louder/quieter, from across the room either. :(

Got this for the turntable yesterday and was kind of disappointed. The turtable platter is poor quality plastic which leads to it wobbling when it spins causing my 45's to skip but it worked ok on the 33 1/3. The lid of the cabinet doesnt go up as far as I would like it too making it dificult to see inside. The speakers are poor quality and sounds like you are listening through a tube. I hooked it up to high quality computer speakers thinking it would sound better but it was worse, did not transmit any bass and was then unlistenable. My last complaint is that the manual doesnt have enough information. No instructions on how to change the belt and no easy way to get to the mechanism inside. Upon further investigation I found a review with someone having them same problem who contacted Emerson and they referred him to an outside company to purchase a "repair manual". This unit is OK if you are not looking for quality and just to play older records at a low volume. I would return it if I could, Im just not comfortable playing my collectable records on this unit.

This is a wonderful stereo system! When I received the item there was some damage to the stylus, so I messaged the seller that night. The next morning I woke up to an email stating their apologies and was informed a new item was on its way. Within a week I had a fully operational antique inspired record/cd/stereo system at home. No hassles no fuss. The records sound incredible. I am thinking about buying another for a friend. Thank You

Okay I know the pitfalls of buying an all in one system, but this one really looks cool. The speakers are a lot more powerful than I would have thought right off the cuff. Did I mention it lookes so very cool!

I purchased this item on August 6, 2010. When I unpacked it and set it up, the turntable did not work properly. The platform wobbled and it made an annoying scrapping sound with each revolution. I returned the item and ordered another one of the same model. I received it on August 20, 2010 and set it up as before. The platform on the turntable wobbled just as the previous one had and made the same annoying scrapping noise. I sent this one back as well. Also, the FM antenna was too short to receive quality stereo broadcasts. The CD player worked very well and the sound quality was quite good.

I believe there is an engineering flaw in the design of this unit. If they can fix that problem and lengthen the antenna, I would purchase it.

After reading reviews of various systems, I decided to order this one. Front settings were very difficult to read because they were the same color as the background. Then about 2 weeks after I set it up I tried the record player and found it didn't work. Very disappointing!