Electrohome Archer Vinyl Portable Record Player Classic Turntable (EANOS300)

This is a review all about the Electrohome Archer Vinyl Portable Record Player Classic Turntable. We’ll look at this beautiful classic 1960’s styled portable turntable with leatherette finish and packed with the latest in technology to create a nice package. We’ll look at both the good and bad points, don’t worry it has a bit of both but we’ll talk about that later.

It’s available from Amazon so we’ll look at reviews by real Amazon customers that purchased these units and have some real points that that will give you information that will help in deciding if this is the best portable turntable for you.

We’ll look at some points to be aware of when purchasing this turntable and by the end you’ll be pretty we’ll informed about all its features.

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Main Features

Multiple Ways You Can Connect Headphones USB Aux In
3 Speed 33 45 & 78 RPM Belt Drive Portable Turntable
Turntable With Speakers Built In
Ceramic Stylus With Diamond Tip
Fully Automatic Tone Arm

Multiple ways to connect with this Portable Turntable

This is a beautiful 1960’s inspired 3-in-1 suitcase turntable record player designed with style and portability in mind, listen to your favourite vinyl wherever you go is what the Electrohome describe this as. I disagree. In the 1970’s we saw 3 in 1’s with Record Player Tape and Radio in one unit. But it does have some great ways to connect with built in MP3 player right on the front with a USB connector.

So if you run out of records to play fill up a USB flash drive from your digital music collection, stick it in and hit the play button. You can probably charge a Smartphone from this same USB outlet on your Record Player.

The Electrohome Archer portable turntable plays vinyl records and can be connected to your any speaker stereo system. For instance you can plug this record player into your home system and play your dads vinyl LP’s. This will produce a sound that the original artists and makers of the LP had never even dreamed about. Your dad may never have heard them quite like that either.

A 3.5mm auxiliary input from any music playing device including your iPhone, iPad, Android or any other tablet or Smartphone. Making this portable record player a music centre that can play all your music all in one place. The Electrohome Archer portable turntable can play music that your grandfather may have listened to through to the latest digital downloads.

You can plug your IPhone, IPad, IPod Smartphone, or MP3 player in and use it as a music centre to play your mobile device with speakers instead of headphones or connect your headphones for private listening and bliss out on your favourite LP without disturbing anyone.

Enjoy the warm analogue sound of Vinyl any way you feel like and because of the light weight and size you can take it anywhere with you.

Fully Automatic 3 Speed Portable Record Player

Automatic belt-driven turntable spins 7, 10 or 12-inch records at speeds of 331/3, 45 & 78 RPM so you can enjoy your – and dad’s – vinyl collection with ease. Due to the Belt drive turntable you can play any of the vinyl records that have been produced for at least the last 80 years. You can play:-

33 RPM Vinyl LP’s
45 RPM Vinyl singles or the 12 inch Single LP’s
78 RPM Shellac Discs (the older hard discs sometimes called Bakerlite)

The Electrohome Record Players calls this a Fully Automatic Turntable but I disagree. In my day a fully automatic would at the press of a button, lift the tone arm move it across and gently lower it on to the start of the record. Then when the record had ended it would lift the tone arm and bring it back across the platter and gently lower it back to the tone arm lock post.

Electrohome Archer Vinyl Portable Record Player I call a semi automatic because it only does the second part of the action. You have to lift the tone arm on to the start of record yourself. Once the record has finished it will return the tone arm to the lock post automatically. Semi automatic turntable – not truly a fully automatic turntable.

Some customers have commented on the tone arm causing skipping while playing newer LP’s. This would usually be caused by the tone arm not having enough weight on the needle to stay in the grooves on the record. Or it may also be a damaged needle. The needle is an easy and inexpensive solution to the problem and one of the first things I would check if this problem occurred. Checking record player needles is very easy all you need is a magnifying glass so that you can visually look at it and see if it is sharp and undamaged.

Built In Speakers

Built-in stereo speakers with full-range high quality sound, housed in an all-wood acoustic cabinet for optimal audio performance, inspired by over 100 years of developing analogue audio systems. The speakers in the Electrohome Archer Vinyl Portable Record Player Classic Turntable are small and although they are pretty good they have limitations. They are mounted one on either side of the case. This placement of the speakers give really good stereo separation and enhances the surround sound and helps to compensate for the small size.

If you are in a room and it’s fairly quiet they will be great. If you take this to a party with a lot of people unless they‘re all very quiet the results may be disappointing. My suggestion is that if you take it to a party plug in to the hosts’ home stereo and blast your vinyl out to the guests. It is easy to do all you’ll need is very inexpensive adapter cable.

“Diamond tipped” Ceramic Needle (Stylus) and Cartridge

The Electrohome Archer Portable Record Player “Diamond tipped” ceramic needle gives you great audio performance it has a warm and natural tone that is safe to use, and reliable. The Stylus or needle gives a nice analogue warmth to the music you play and they are very reasonably priced. The needles are available on Amazon or a number of other retailers.

Stylus are subject to damage and can be quite delicate. Whilst they are in the holder (Cartridge or Head) they are fine. They usually get damaged when pulled out for inspection. They can be inspected whilst still in the cartridge. My suggestion would be to buy a needle cleaning kit or a complete needle and record cleaner kit. It is surprising how much dirt and grime collects in the record grooves over the years. While you are at it get yourself a magnifying glass so that you can do a visual check on the needle and check for wear or damage.

In conclusion

The conclusions I make for the Electrohome Archer record player review is that there have been comments from purchasers regarding the tone arm on this record player and some have indicated they were disappointed in the quality. I think that given the cost of the unit these cannot be compared to high end turntables that cost hundreds of dollars. There were some customers that had issues with the tone arm skipping across the record surface and one enterprising customer fixed this problem with a small amount of weight attached to the tone arm. The tone arm is supposed to have very little weight on it if it were too heavy it could prematurely wear your records out.

I believe that any problems with is unit skipping will be attributable to the needle. It would be the first thing to check as they are quite delicate. Other than that the speaker quality is not Hi Fi and frankly on any of the portable turntables speaker quality is always going to be an issue. Electrohome Archer have made it possible to get around that by including connections to plug in to your home speaker system and blast out your music big time.

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Electrohome Archer Vinyl Portable Record Player Classic Turntable

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