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Crosley
Website:https://www.crosleyradio.eu/
Est. year: 1992
Crosley is an American record player and home electronics brand run from Louisville, Kentucky, best known for suitcase-style portable turntables such as the Cruiser. The name dates back to Powel Crosley Jr., whose Harko crystal radio set of 1921 started one of the big American radio makers of the interwar years. Today's company revived that name in the late 1980s and built its first turntable in 1992, and it now sells record players, radios, jukeboxes and furniture to a mass-market audience.
Range & what it's known for
Crosley built its name on the portable record player with a built-in speaker, led by the Cruiser in its many finishes and colourways. Above it sits the C series, introduced with better parts, features and finishes, which includes the C6 and C10 belt-drive decks and the C100 with Bluetooth output. A limited C10 was dressed in leather with a leather slipmat in a project with Moore & Giles. The Vinyl Rocket, launched in 2017, is a jukebox that plays records, and licensed Beatles-themed players have appeared since 2020. Retro styling, low weight and an all-in-one layout that needs no separate amplifier define most models.
Who owns it and where it's made
The modern business grew out of Modern Marketing Concepts, a Louisville company founded in 1984 and led by chief executive James P. LeMastus, which brought the dormant Crosley name back in 1989 and today trades as Crosley Brands. It is a private company with two divisions, Crosley Radio for electronics and Crosley Furniture, added in 2009. Design and marketing are handled in Kentucky, while the record players are produced by contract factories in China.
The lineup in this catalog
Turntables. The simplest record players cost about USD 100, and the better C series decks around USD 300.
Who it's for
Crosley is aimed at first-time vinyl buyers, gift shoppers and anyone who wants a record player that works straight out of the box without separate speakers or an amplifier. Most first-time buyers pick the Cruiser, and anyone after a proper belt-drive deck with line outputs can move to the C6 or C10. People building a dedicated stereo system around a carefully set-up deck and cartridge are not the audience this brand serves.
Range & what it's known for
Crosley built its name on the portable record player with a built-in speaker, led by the Cruiser in its many finishes and colourways. Above it sits the C series, introduced with better parts, features and finishes, which includes the C6 and C10 belt-drive decks and the C100 with Bluetooth output. A limited C10 was dressed in leather with a leather slipmat in a project with Moore & Giles. The Vinyl Rocket, launched in 2017, is a jukebox that plays records, and licensed Beatles-themed players have appeared since 2020. Retro styling, low weight and an all-in-one layout that needs no separate amplifier define most models.
Who owns it and where it's made
The modern business grew out of Modern Marketing Concepts, a Louisville company founded in 1984 and led by chief executive James P. LeMastus, which brought the dormant Crosley name back in 1989 and today trades as Crosley Brands. It is a private company with two divisions, Crosley Radio for electronics and Crosley Furniture, added in 2009. Design and marketing are handled in Kentucky, while the record players are produced by contract factories in China.
The lineup in this catalog
Turntables. The simplest record players cost about USD 100, and the better C series decks around USD 300.
Who it's for
Crosley is aimed at first-time vinyl buyers, gift shoppers and anyone who wants a record player that works straight out of the box without separate speakers or an amplifier. Most first-time buyers pick the Cruiser, and anyone after a proper belt-drive deck with line outputs can move to the C6 or C10. People building a dedicated stereo system around a carefully set-up deck and cartridge are not the audience this brand serves.
