Crosley CR79 4-in-1 Entertainer Plus Recorder - Cherry

I'd love this it's cute, and has everything we needed and then i got it home and realized that there isn't a line-out, just a line-in for an ipod. So this will NOT work with extra speakers etc.

We won't be keeping ours, what good is a record player if you can't hook up additional speakers to it?

I thought my mom might like the item and I was pleasantly suprised. She was estatic about this all-in-one stereo. She like the features and the sound. She's used to hearing music on a smaller radio and wanted to play her old records and listen to cdrs which don't play on some boom boxes.

Pro: Looks good, cd and radio sound pretty good, plays cdrs great.

Cons: Tape and phonograph sound a little tinny, hard to read control panel, no output jacks (that I saw).

My mother loved it and in the end, that all that really matters.

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I was a little nervous about ordering this for delivery. I had seen some in-store models that were so badly dinged up that I was sure mine would come in pieces. Delivery was very fast and everything intact. Plus much cheaper even with shipping than the ones I saw in the stores.

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I wish I had found a review for this product before I bought it. If all you are looking for is a cheap way to play records, CD's and tapes, I guess it would be all right, but I bought it to convert vinyl to CD and have been sorely disappointed.

1.) Recording vinyl to CD results in a CD with one track that will need to be split up with editing software on your pc. You can babysit the recording process and press a button each time the song changes, but this is not a realistic option if you are trying to convert more than a few albums.

2.) The user interface is horrible. Although the retro styling is attractive, button labels are hard to read and poorly organized. I've lost count of the times that I've hit the power off button instead of the cd eject.

3.) There is no line out jack for external devices. Even worse, you cannot record from the line-in jack.

4.) My unit was shipped with a broken tape player. I did not find this out until 8 months later when I first tried to play a tape.

5.) Because of the broken tape player, I was unfortunate enough to encounter their customer service. Service is substandard. After 8 months, the unit was out of warantee; so I needed to send the unit to them on my own. I paid for shipping and packing and sent the unit and a check to them two months ago. Though they cashed the check (they don't accept credit cards for repairs) two months ago, I have yet to recieve the repaired unit. I called them today to find out where it was and was told that technical service would call me within 2 or 3 days.

This is a product and company best avoided.

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