Crosley Sound Design Stereo Walnut

• Crosley's Around Sound Design
• AM/FM Radio with Analog Tuner 5 - 1 Ratio Airplane Tuning Dial with external AM/FM antenna
• Portable Audio Ready-Simply Plug in Your Favorite Portable Audio Device
• Orange LED Tuning Indicator
• 3 Studio-quality Driver

For the price of this radio I expected a lot more. I could go on and on about about the problems I initially had ordering the radio, but thats a different story. Target was selling this unit thru Amazon "on sale" for $89.00. Since they regularly sell for approx $130.00, I thought it was a good deal. When the radio arrived I took it out of its box and noticed 3 blemishes in the walnut cabinet, not the end of the world but still, I paid over $100.00 incl shipping and tax which is a lot of money for a table radio.....I believe Target's "sale" on this radio was for bruised units that they must have had returned to them in their stores.....I also thought it was a little odd that the sticker on the back of the radio had a mfg date of "DEC 2005," I purchased the radio JUN 2007.....Besides the blemished cabinet, the radio does look great, I wish I could say the same for its perfomance......The sound is GOOD...but NOT great.....I think its comical that a previous reviewer had issues receiving AM broadcasts. My problem was with FM broadcasts, I have to have the antenna completely extended and tilted and angled to a specific degree and the reception is still scratchy. I've had a easier time tunning in old vacuume tube Zeniths (with internal "armstrong" antennae)from the 1950's! Another problem I see (or hear) is that the radio has WAY too much bass. I was listening to an AM news station, the announcers voice was low to begin with, but with the exorbidant amount of bass coming off of the radio, the speaker was causing the cabinet to vibrate. I mean we're not talking about Pink Floyds's "The Wall" here. Another issue I have....I was expecting that I would be able to crank the volume on this radio to the max without ANY distortion, as it is a $100.00 radio right? Not as such....Listening to anything (AM-FM-AUX) past the half way point on the volume dial causes a lot of speaker vibrating distortion. I plugged my portable CD player into the radio. I followed the radio's directions and turned the volume level on my CD player down to the MIN setting. I played The Beach Boy's "Pet Sounds" CD specifically because it was/is a mono recording. It sounded alright...not bad, but NOT great, not what I was expecting. Again, volume slightly past the half way mark and the speaker itself starts making its own music. My problem is that this unit is / was being toted as an "audiophile" type piece which is what I was looking for. In my opinion, the unit isn't close. Its a real great looking $25.00 radio. My father used to own several nothing special GE / Sears / Montgomery Ward radio's back in the 1980's that sounded JUST as good as this one. Guess I'll eventually have to FORCE myself to save up $500.00 and buy a Bose or something equal. Wait....$500.00 for a table radio???? Forget that!!!!! I'll buy a $500.00 receiver instead.

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I'll admit, this radio looks neat, has decent sound for its size, and the FM reception is good. However, I could pull in virtually no AM stations without physically touching the antenna, and the stations I did get were not as clear as expected. In the photos of this product, the tuning knobs appear to be metallic, they are not. for $100, I expected better.

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We use this radio in the office and the sound from that little radio fills up the room. The sound quality is great and the price is good. I would recommend this product for anyone interested in a cool-looking radio that can perform!

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I found this radio new in the box at an antique store for $20. It had obviously been an unused and unappreciated Christmas gift for I found bits of wrapping paper still taped to the bottom of the box and the contents had never even been removed from the plastic wrappings. One thing you won't find out about until you open the box is the HUGE external power supply that comes with this radio. No where is this behemoth mentioned in any of the descriptions I've seen online. A sort-of "wall wart" type, it has a cord that plugs into the outlet and another cord that plugs into the radio itself. This power supply is quite unsightly (ie., 'BUTT UGLY'), roughly a quarter the size of the whole radio and it is just something else you'll have to make room for or try to hide somewhere. Of important note, since it is an external power supply, it consumes energy CONSTANTLY when plugged in even with the radio switched off. Environmentally-conscious types will want to unplug the power supply from the wall outlet EACH and EVERY TIME the radio isn't in use.

When I got it home and set it up, I wasn't overwhelmed with the performance. FM reception was pretty good although there was some bleed-over of strong stations all across the tuning range. AM performance is horrid only a blowtorch station a few miles down the road came in strongly enough to over-ride the heavy and annoying background "whoosh" present througout the AM tuning range. Obviously, a noise reduction (squelch) circuit was overlooked by the engineers but, if you tune it off-station, you will have a great white noise generator to help you sleep at night. There is no way to adjust tone what it's got is all you'll get. Some may find it a bit bass heavy but that's not a big problem with me.

So for me this wasn't a bad deal for $20.... but I do pity those who forked over much more than that to get one. $100 isn't what it used to be but it should buy a better-performing radio than this thing and there are plenty of other choices to better fill most needs.

As for my title, the late Powel Crosley Jr. was the founder of the Crosley radio corporation in the early part of the 20th century. Often called the "Henry Ford of Radio", his creed was good performance at an affordable price. I do dare to say that if he saw this over-priced, under-performing product bearing his name he would indeed be spinning in his grave.......

The Crosley is great. I have 2 bose waves and this while not quit as good, it is very good for the price. I use it for sirius broadcast and it picks up the signal from across the house.

Reception is very good. Tested it at Target and it pulled in stations where all other raidos there wouldn't.

Style is retro. heavy, and has substance. I like it!!!

And for $72.00 at Target??? come on what do you want?