do not go to the bed and bath stores looking for a quality shower radio.
shower radios are either the $10 junk in the bed and bath stores, or the $100 high end models.
target and other stores have stopped selling them as off-the-shelf retail, but i hope sony continues to make this little c-battery shower radio and doesn't screw it up with any "improvements."
the radio has great reception,it's easy to store radio stations and overall, very happy with the purchase and price.
it's pretty hard to find this sort of product in the local stores anymore (best buy?
i had searched for a simple am/fm radio in stores, but virtually no one carried a radio that was simple.
you cannot find these in any stores other than frys and i'm convinced its because they make everything else look inferior by comparison.
basic and decent quality radios like this are not always easily found in retail stores, especially the nationally known chains where shelf space is at a premimium.
probably could stock my own radio store.
i can even receive fairly clear reception inside stores, warehouses and even in a radio shack store with all it's electronic interference.
this digital radio fits into the hand, can be programed to store a total of 19 stations, a backlit 10 second display each time the dial is changed, and a sleep timer.
it has been convenient to be able to save both am and fm together on the set of stored stations.
station search/seek, favorite station store and one-button selection.
i immediately invested another $35 in decent pair of koss earbuds and stored the supplied earphones in the nearest trash bin.
i immediatey invested another $35 in decent pair of koss earbuds and stored the supplied earphones in the neareast trash bin.
it also has numerous ways to tune as well as store any received signals.
you have the option to scan through the stored memory locations or just scan up/down by frequency.
pros: small size, price, external antenna jack, 1000 memory locations cons: volume control location, whip antenna stores inside radio, no coverage in the 60 meter band the bottom line: very
it was hard to find in a store, we finally purchased it from tweeter, but we had to go to a few of them.
pick up an inexpensive video camera bag from the store for your speaker(s)...(about $20.00) with side pouches for your ipod, and cables and you are in business!
i just got back from the store and plugged my ipod mini into this and am blown away by the quality of sound from such a small single speaker!
under the store lighting at j&r, none of the rubber versions look great, except maybe the black and white.
large box stores and other electronic stores carried nothing.
i saw this radio in a local electronics store last christmas and recently decided to purchase one despite the mixed reviews on this website.
took less than 1minute in the store.
about 9 months ago, i purchased a different model sony walkman from a retail store and it only worked for about 6 months and the am radio quit working.
i would certianly recommend this after shopping the local discount stores, it's a great value.
the price is the lowest of the 4 units i compared (i took the other 3 back to the stores which is a hassle, but the stores never demo these units- they demo cameras, but why they don't demo these
not only does this product allow my daughter to tolerate all the loud advertising and abrupt unexpected noises of a mall/big box store shopping trip; but she does so with a smile all the while
amazon had this product half of what a store was elling them for.
then i decided that it would be much better to just return them to the store to upgrade to these hearing protectors to make it very easy to listen to my music and books while working.
the radio can store 5 of your favorite stations which can be changed by pressing the button on the outside.
great hearing protectors but the quality of the radio is about as good as a dollar store counter purchase and you need to buy batteries in bulk because your going to need them
smaller means easier to store when not needed, and easier to carry when it is needed.
the advantage of buying it in the store is you can actually crank on it and make sure that the radio you are buying works (am/fm/weather ...
so far, even with the shorter length of the antenna, the set does pick up fm stations adequately - even inside a store with heavy floresent lighting.
sangean makes high quality radios with reception far better than what's available in stores.
this case has mesh webbing against one interior wall where the floppy wire fm antenna can easily be stored, too.
this radio is good, i tried it out in the store.
the batteries should definately be stored out of the radio, but overall it fulfills its niche to be used in an emergency.
this is an excellent performing and quality inexpensive 'emergency' radio, that will work with 3 'aa' batteries, or the built-in hand cranking device that stores energy in the built-in nicd cells.
he plays with it like a kid in a toy store.
i recommend grundigs very highly and since electronic stores often don't carry them, amazon is the best place to buy them.
there is not much choice in retail stores relative to this type of radio; so, its hard to compare fit and feel.
at first glance, you know right away that the made-in-japan sony icf-sw7600gr is definitely not available at your corner shoppe, much less your local electronics store - the interface consists of 27
the presets are stored in eeprom which will not be erased with any power loss.
my 84 y/0 aunt needed a replacement, portable, am / fm radio, and i stumbled upon this unit at a retail store near my house.
it's hard to find shower radios in the stores these days.
people use mod chips for more than just piracy, some like to get advanced japanese versions of games before they hit us stores, others contest their rights to make software backups.
goto the store and listen for yourself.
aside from the problem of where to store the remote in a secure spot so that it doesn't fall behind the bedside table or on the floor, i use this radio as an alarm so this frequently creats problems
i have gone into the local bose store to listen to it.
rca jack (but that problem is solved at radioshack or best buy easily) and the fm antenna input is now a 3.5mm also instead of a coaxial input (yet again, this can be solved at an electronics store).
(check out ebay if you don't believe me for resale value!) i will say the aux input (allows you to connect an outside cd player, or ipod, mp3 player, etc) is a 3.5mm input this time instead of an rca
the plesant service agentsuggested that since he coudn't garent that the product was in stock in the area stores that i could have it shipped to my parents in flordia (free shipping).
great little radio and bought for almost half the price than the stores.
they almost laughed me out of the store.
i bought mine from a local k-mart store for 14.99 + tax.
to be fair, i bought this poor excuse for a radio directly from sony(in the old orchard store) but the product would be trash no matter where i had purchased it.
while not able to find an affordable one at my local 'mart' stores - i checked online and found the sony icf-s10mk2 pocket am/fm radio and, after reading the various reviews, ordered two of them (to
not available in stores anywhere.
thank you to amazon for great service and for having a product that i couldn't find in local stores.
true, it costs $10 bucks more at the store but the lifetime warranty is well worth it.
i had bought a cheap unit made by conair at a local store which turned out to be junk.
this is why i usually buy from a local store instead of online.
this is such a simple and reliable product that it is ironically very difficult to find in a brick and mortar store.
after looking in stores in my area, i saw this radio on amazon and after reading the description, i knew this was it.
you can buy huge numbers of them for next to nothing if you shop around a bit or belong to a warehouse kind of store.
i could not find a similar item in the big-stores.
our local sears store had them on sale for $23.95 and i had a $40.00 gift card burning a hole in my pocket so i bought one.
i had to special order it from a audio store at the time.
i've wanted this type of tivoli since my co-worker got a similar model in an audio store 5 years ago.
seeing that the kloss model one is the radio sold by npr at its website store, i gave her one as a gift.
of course in the store there was no am reception, but the fm sounded good.
i recently purchased an "ihome" radio/clock/ipod player on the spur of the moment at a big box store.
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