Crosley Dansette Bermuda Portable Turntable.
This is a review of the Crosley CR6233A-RE Dansette Bermuda Portable Turntable. We will be taking a look at this unique portable record player and see what customers that have bought them think of them. I will be focusing on the points that are both good and bad so that you can make an informed decision about how suitable the Crosley Dansette Portable Turntable is likely to be for you.
- Plays two speeds–33 1/3 and 45 RPM records
- Dynamic full range stereo speakers
- Portable audio ready with auxiliary input
- Portable turntable comes complete with matching stand
- Classic Dansette Series style turntable
Have you gotten into the new wave of enthusiasm for vinyl records and LP’s that are being released by current artists. There is a large number of LP’s still around and able to be played despite some of them being decades old. Are you one of the new generation that is discovering what the oldies have know for many years. Vinyl is good it has its own distinctive flavour and feel. It’s a very tactile touchy feely yummy comfortable medium to use and listen to.
Crosley customers that have purchased a Crosley CR6233A-RE Dansette Bermuda Portable Turntable have been very happy with what they’ve bought. The customer rating for this Crosley portable turntable is 4 this indicates that this Crosley model is providing good value for money and that Amazon customers believe they are getting what they have paid for.
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Ahh!! The old Dansette Bermuda
The Dansette is an old British radio brand name that Crosley have bought back to life and given it a bunch of very flash high technology. It’s a recreation of the original units that were manufactured throughout the early to mid 1900s in Britain were great at the time but did not contain the electronic wizardry that Crosley have slipped into them.
The Crosley CR6233A-RE Dansette Bermuda Portable Turntable is made with the same 1950s look and feel that is very appealing and there are plenty of Amazon customers that will attest to this fact. In fact if you search You Tube you’ll find there are a few of the original units that have been restored and are being demonstrated. They were a much loved portable record player back in their day.
The modern Crosley Dansette Record Player version looks the part on the outside but internally it’s all modern high tech audio engineering with low power usage and extremely versatile. The cabinet looks just like it did when and could have almost been time warped from the 1950s into 2016. It has the colour the texture, everything to make it feel like the real thing. It’s a portable unit with detachable legs that allow it to become a home furniture piece with a very period vibe. And don’t forget the colours, it’s available in a very period Red and equally stunning Black.
The Crosley version of the Dansette Bermuda portable turntable has nice connectivity with headphone socket to plug your favourite set of headphones to listen when perhaps other don’t wish to or when really late and you probable need to keep the sound down. It comes with a line in (Aux) so that you can connect your IPod, Smartphone, CD Player or any other device to use the Dansette as a music centre. Both of these sockets are mounted conveniently on the front panel. On the back of the Dansette Bermuda is an RCA Line out jack that will allow you to connect to an external set of speakers or a stereo amp or you could connect to an audio capture input on a PC and record your Vinyl LP’s to a digital format like MP3.
Dynamic Full Range Stereo Speakers
Speakers for the Dansette are somewhat better than you get in the smaller portable units. Simply the sound is not quite so thin or tinny as the speakers that are used in this bigger cabinet are bigger in size which helps quite a bit. The sound is not as good as a Hi quality amp and speakers but there will always be some compromises when making portable sized record player and turntables.
The Dansette as some Amazon customers had assumed does not have a radio built in. Crosley have been very faithful to the original design of the Dansette Bermuda model which also was a record player only without radio.
Plays two speeds 33 1/3 RPM & 45 RPM records
The Dansette has a (two) 2 speed 33 RPM and 45 RPM belt driven turntable. This will be able to play the 7 inch 45 RPM singles and the 12 inch LP’s and the 12 inch 45 RPM extended play records. This portable record player won’t play the older 78 RPM 10 inch records but that only helps to make it more like the original Dansette portable turntable.
To Be – Or Not To Be – An Auto
Now despite it being called a fully automatic record player I don’t consider this to be the case. It will start the record and stop the record at the end but this where Crosley have made a change in the original design which was a fully automatic stacker model and can sometimes be called a record changer.
Fully auto turntable back in the 50s was able to have a number of records stacked one on top of the other. When the record player was started it would automatically drop the first record on the platter. When the first record finished the tone arm would swing out of the way whilst the next record was dropped on top of the previous one, the tone arm would swing back to the start of the new record and play that one all the way through then repeat the process till there were no records left in the stack.
The Crosley Dansette Bermuda turntable is automatic but not fully automatic . . . but that’s just my opinion. The tonearm is fitted with a ceramic cartridge and Crosley NP5 needle. If you go to this page there is a video showing how to change the needle on the Crosley Dansette Bermuda Portable Turntable
Conclusion
All in all this is the best portable turntable that I have seen for a while. If you were looking to have a period style player that replicates a system from the 50’s or Sixties you really couldn’t go wrong. The Crosley CR6233A-RE Dansette Bermuda Portable Turntable will look stunning and sound great.
If you wanted to drag out some of those old LP’s from many years ago to relive the memories the Crosley Dansette Portable Turntable would work really well for you. This or could be an ideal present for someone a bit older like perhaps your parents. If they have records sitting in a cupboard somewhere get them out and dust them off (the records that is) and give them a play.
