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Winston Vinyl Record Player

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Product Review (submitted on December 25, 2018):

first off the website goes to great lengths to promote the history of 'Electrohome' but in reality this company CWD bought the name and this is cheapo made in china crap just like you see everywhere these days. not built to last, cheapest components, and zero QA all wrapped up in marketing & promoted with a classic name that gives the illusion of quality from days long long gone by.

mine arrived damaged - clearly from the factory as the boz was not damaged - top lid broke off and screws missing.

first impressions - cheap, and made in china sticker
1. wood material is very lightwieght
2. top lid arm very cheap hardware and will not last multiple open and close sessions.

plugged it in to check it out
3. very cheap cd player - which didnt work

4. that nice dial glow pictured on the website and photoshopped into non-reality is actually two (very bright yellow) led lights that don't back light the dial with a nice warm glow - they are like headlights on the front of a car.

5. the record player - it worked, it sounded ok, but you cant get past the extremely cheap hard plastic record platter - at-least they could have placed a nice record pad on it to hide the cheapness.

I would have gladly paid more for a quality vintage system like 'electrohome' produced turn of the century - unit going back and I will shop elsewhere.