I almost titled this review “Everything but 8-Track,” but that would’ve been starting on a negative note for what I consider to be a very positive product: Victor Audio’s Cosmopolitan 8-in-1 Music Center. It’s the most versatile of the more than a dozen nostalgic, legacy-media playback devices the company has to offer.
Versatile in not only playing vinyl (at 33, 45, and even 78 rpm), cassettes, CDs, and AM/FM radio, it can also digitize any of that material to USB or SD media in MP3 format. It will even record to cassette if that’s of interest. About the only trick missing is burning audio to CD (and the aforementioned 8-track), but that’s a far more complicated process because of all the formatting involved. In truth, I had no desire to burn CDs. Did I mention that it will also transmit and receive Bluetooth audio?
Victor sent me the silver-faced version of the Cosmopolitan with dark faux-wood sides, but it’s also available in basic black if
