The Crosley C62 may look like a record player and a dinky pair of speakers, but in fact it’s an entirely self-contained system with some wireless streaming smarts thrown in. That means spring clips for speaker cable, a switch for the integrated phono stage (in case you want to make use of the C62’s RCA outputs to connect the deck to an external amp or powered speakers) and a power on/off switch. And it’s rendered even less enjoyable by the fact the platter itself is rotating with less speed-related stability than is absolutely ideal. Nothing about the design of the Crosley C62 is going to startle or perturb - it looks exactly as you’d expect a turntable and a pair of compact bookshelf speakers to look. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

A quality record player with an aluminium platter, fully equipped with bluetooth, builtin amplifier and two external speakers. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. As long as you’ve a level surface and easy access to mains power, getting from ‘opening the box’ to ‘listening to some tunes’ is a job that won’t take long - even setting the counterweight is the work of just a moment or two. There’s next-to-no dynamic variation in the way it presents a recording, no light and shade in the individual sounds and certainly no real body or assertiveness to the overall presentation.The speakers included are actually pretty good size, and I was amazed when we plugged just the turntable in to our larger system how rich the sound was. There are a few brands that will sell you a system as extensive as this for an outlay similarly modest, but Crosley is by far the highest-profile of the lot. My older turntable didn’t have this feature and it took a read of the manual and quick check of some YouTube videos to ensure I dialed the tracking force in properly. Crosley supplies everything you need in terms of cables, and set-up is straightforward in the extreme. The speakers have two hanging wires (positive and negative) that will connect to the red and black inputs on the back of the unit.

The Bluetooth feature is meant to be a simple convenience for anyone wanting to connect their device to play through the Crosley. First, everything you need is in the box; speakers, turntable, turntable mat, speaker wires and needle. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. The C62 comes equipped with an aluminium tonearm, a belt-drive motor for improved sound quality and vibration-reducing feet to ensure clarity.I should have listened to my colleagues and friends who tried to dissuade me from purchasing a crosley and instead encouraged me to purchase from a reputable company. Missing the first few milliseconds of your favourite song makes the listening experience more unsettling than it really should be. A signature is required, so if no-one is available they will leave a card to arrange a suitable time. Then it’s just a question of fiddling with the anti-skate control, connecting the supplied (and brief) lengths of bog-standard speaker cable to the turntable at one end and the speakers at the other, and plugging into the mains. It also features an integrated phono stage, for making connection to an external source of amplification as easy as possible.

The sonic characteristics already described are all still evident, however – and they’re joined by the C62’s tendency to clip the first fraction of a second from the digital file it’s playing. The speakers themselves are a tidy 250 x 159 x 159mm (HxWxD), and have little silicone feet to facilitate shelf-mounting.and compatibility with SBC and AAC codecs – hardly the cutting edge, but more than adequate for the majority of users the majority of the time. At the top of the frequency range, meanwhile, the Crosley manages the by-no-means easy feat of sounding blunt and shrill at the same time. The FLA Lending Code can be found here or alternatively you can contact us directly and we can provide you with a copy of the Lending Code. The Crosley C62 Bluetooth turntable system is a complete record-playing solution for both beginner and advanced vinyl hobbyists alike.