Are all Crosley record players bad? What about the C200?

The C200 is sort of like a knockoff of the A-T '120,

which is a blatant knockoff of the Technics 1200.

Fortunately, that means the C200 isn't as bad as the typical Crosley.

How - Ever:

You should still avoid it and instead buy a different brand of the same thing.

(Crosley doesn't make it in-house; they have it made to their specifications.

There are other marketers buying the same basic model.

Only the name, model designation, and cosmetics will be substantially different.)

Take particular note of the design of the tonearm

and compare it to those on A-T and Technics 'tables.

The Technics, of course, has the best arm of these three;

Audio-Technica gets close in that their arm is also "fully gimballed".

The arm on the C200 is much less sophsticated,

having good bearings only for the vertical plane.

How its horizontal pivot is configured, I can only guess,

and my guess is that the C200's is poor in comparison ---

as will be any other brand's that looks the same.