Crosley C8A-WA Belt-Driven Record Player Turntable with Built-in Pre-Amp, Adjustable Tonearm, AT3600L Cartridge, and Audio Grade MDF Plinth, Walnut

This crossed record player is AMAzing! The durability and weight was great and helped me realize that it was quality. The weight on the player helped with skipping. It fit in perfectly with my speaker and played automatically once I set it all up. I am very excited about the quality and size of this record player. It is a great value for the money.

The Crosley C8 seems like a rebadged Fluance RT80 with a different tonearm and a couple added features, and for less money. If you’re eyeing the Fluance model as an entry level sub-$200 turntable, just choose whichever one is less expensive at that moment. They’re both fantastic turntables so in this case don’t shy away from the Crosley name if it’s cheaper when you look to buy. I was going to put an AT3652 cartridge on it to upgrade the needle, but honestly this AT3600L sounds REALLY good on my speakers and I’m happy with it. I don’t see a need to upgrade from here since I only really do casual listening but for those purposes it’s phenomenal sounding.One caveat - it’s a fully manual turntable. This means you can swap and upgrade parts easily so you get more of an upgrade path, but the downside is there’s no auto stop or auto return so you need to be ready to stop your record right when it ends. It’s a tradeoff, so take that as you will and make an educated decision with that known.I would recommend this turntable to anyone looking for a seriously good sounding system for casual listening, who’s also looking to stay under $200 like I was. I’m really impressed by the warmth and fullness to the sound from the included AT3600L too.

I use a couple of automatic Audio Technica turntables around the house and they sound excellent with vintage receivers and speakers. However, I wanted something manual where I could control needle pressure and anti-skate. The C8 is excellent on all accounts and sounds as good as anything I’ve ever heard. No offense to “audiophiles” who would turn their noses up on a Crosley, but this thing is fantastic at any price.

The media could not be loaded. I absolutely love this turntable it plays my records great. I only bought it to finally listen to all my video game records such as the one i chose to demo. I recommend this unit for first time or intermediate LP collectors. However it does have a phono preamp built in, so if you want a naked analog output you may want to look elsewhere. As for me who isn’t a hardcore audiophile this record player perfectly suits me, and i know it will be perfect for anyone looking to get into record keeping.Ok so i recently bought a cork mat for it, and it truly did improve the sound quality. After owning it for a while and breaking in the cartridge I can confirm the the AT 3600 is a great match for this turntable. Now people may wonder if you can upgrade the cartridge to an Ortofon 2m Red/Blue. The answer yes after checking the VTA it matches the needed specs for the 2m series. I am currently waiting for my 2m blue to arrive.

I'll admit I'm still fairly new to vinyls. This is the second record player I've bought: first turn table. I started with a suitcase player and now I'm here.The GoodStupid easy to set up. The belt scared me, but that is probably because I have the tendency to as my family says "Hulk out" on things and accidentally break stuff. It's a very attractive player, looks great in my space. There are some really good components in this turntable for the price. The adjustable tone arm is great and works at helping preserve the quality of my vinyl and a surprising feature in this price range/class of turntable. The Audio Technica stylus is surprisingly premium a budget turntable.The BadGod is it huge. It's freaking massive. I had to rearrange my whole room and buy a new piece of furniture to hold it. If I had fully understood how large this turntable is I would have bought a different turntable. The lid takes up a ton of room. So to open it I have to have almost 6" between it and the wall. And no I can't use it without the lid because I live in a glacial valley at the convergence of two rivers fed by glaciers so everything that stands still for two and a half seconds has a thin layer of dust on it. It's about 18" wide and like 16" deep and most of that space is to accommodate the external belt drive and let me tell you I could live without that little feature because I don't understand why you'd do that in the first place.The MehThere is no Bluetooth feature. At this point in this price range every other company (even Crosley) has this feature built in. It's not like that big of a deal, but it is a pretty big miss. Not life and death and I do love the Crosley Bookshelf speakers I have and they look great as a set, but still would be nice to use it with my Bose soundbar or my JBL Flip 5s I have. But again it's not enough to make me hate it and frankly it's kinda fun to have dedicated speakers for it.The size is why I bumped it down a star. I'd honestly give it 4.5 stars. It does what it say on the tin and looks great doing it so can't be unhappy with it.

I would like to say that this turn table is very nice and easy to use. I have bought several brands and so far this one is the best. First use, we played it for about 4 hours with several albums that were over 40 years old. It didn’t falter once, even on worn vinyl it did great. I would buy another one in a heart beat. I understand it is American made and a quality product. 5 stars.