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Summary: I love the Item
Review: I bought one item like this and like it , sound is clear with extra bass, reception is much better, better than Sony. most of the people mistaken it like Mp3 because of the style. i like listening on radio all the time and one solve the problem, lite and comfortable to carry.
Planning to buy another one just in case, coz i know they don't distribute this anymore. do you think i reccomend this ? , you Bet. i bought a armstrap to put in , and it ready to go. try it , you will love it.
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Summary: The best little radio yet
Review: I've been using little radios on my commute for years, and this is the best - even better than the old SONY FM/AM Walkman Sports that was my previous favorite. Terrific FM reception, it pulls in a pretty good selection of downtown stations even when my train reaches the outer 'burbs (and it receives very well inside the train, another sign of the tuner strength). The best, most convenient battery change I've ever seen, and runs for quite a while on a single AAA. Size is perfect. Distant/Local switch handles downtown overload pretty well.
Downsides: Memorizing a station requires a Mensa certificate, no auto-off (do any of them?) - but these are minor. Great choice for a commuter radio.
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Summary: Good little radio
Review: Ok, people. First of all, the city function on this puppy (like all radios with this capability) is designed to make the radio LESS sensitive to radio signals, rather than more sensitive. The idea is that in a large city, there are going to be lots of radio stations, and the city function allows you to filter out the weaker ones that might be competing for the same frequency that a stronger station is using. Make sense?
Anyway, this is actually a pretty decent radio. I bought it on clearance at Strawberries for a measly seven bucks, and for that price I have nothing to complain about.
Reception is decent to very good, and the amplifier has enough power to drown out a lawnmower, which is what I bought it for.
The extra bass function is a little too enthusiastic, in my opinion, but I guess that is why they invented off buttons.
Overall, I would highly recommend this unit if you can find it for anything close to what I paid for it. I'd start getting a lot pickier if I had to pay list price (approx $45.00, or so) since for a little more you can start looking at MP3 players. For example, I bought a basic Rio S10 at Sam's Club for about 55 dollars.
For a little radio, this one performs very well.
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Summary: Mediocre Sound Quality, Confusing Bells and Whistles
Review: The Panasonic RF-SW70 has a lot of bells and whistles, but the sound quality is about a "C" with the bass turned on, and unpleasantly tinny with the bass turned off. The plastic earphones were uncomfortable and kept popping out of my ears. There's an annoying beep every time one changes the station.Of all the portable walkabout radios I've tried, this was the least intuitive/most complicated to use. I had to sit down with the instructions to figure out how to use the bass function. I worked with the instructions for 10 or 15 minutes to try to pre-set some favorite stations, and was still unable to figure out how to do this. Likewise the lap timer was confusing. It's a stop watch one can have beep every 1, 5, or 10 minutes, but I wasn't clear on how to work it. Many people will not need this feature. There's also a "city function" to receive better reception on FM broadcasts from weaker stations. Ironically, I was able to pull in these stations only when this function was turned off. Other features include:
* a secure belt clip
* tapered shape for holding in the palm of the hand
* light-weight (3.6 ounces including headphones) Overall I was not terribly impressed. With mediocre sound quality and confusing functions, I find other radios to be better buys.
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Summary: Mediocre Sound Quality, Confusing Bells and Whistles
Review: The Panasonic RF-SW70 has a lot of bells and whistles, but the sound quality is about a "C" with the bass turned on, and unpleasantly tinny with the bass turned off. The plastic earphones were uncomfortable and kept popping out of my ears. There's an annoying beep every time one changes the station. Of all the portable walkabout radios I've tried, this was the least intuitive/most complicated to use. I had to sit down with the instructions to figure out how to use the bass function. I worked with the instructions for 10 or 15 minutes to try to pre-set some favorite stations, and was still unable to figure out how to do this. Likewise the lap timer was confusing. It's a stop watch one can have beep every 1, 5, or 10 minutes, but I wasn't clear on how to work it. Many people will not need this feature. There's also a "city function" to receive better reception on FM broadcasts from weaker stations. Ironically, I was able to pull in these stations only when this function was turned off. Other features include:
* a secure belt clip
* tapered shape for holding in the palm of the hand
* light-weight (3.6 ounces including headphones) Overall I was not terribly impressed. With mediocre sound quality and confusing functions, I find other radios to be better buys.
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Summary: ShockWave Will Be Missed, But Not Replaced
Review: The size, shape of the radio are perfect for shoving in your pocket and forgetting about. It has a hold function to keep the buttons from being push, but unfortunatly atleast once a day I would succeed in turning off the hold function from within my pocket. The best feature is by far the battery compartment and the 20 plus battery hours it gets on a single AAA battery. The reception is pretty good, although it picks up disturbances from nearby cell phones. There are a whole list of bad qualities with this radio. The first are the headphones, which are the most uncomfortable one I have ever had the displeasure of putting in my ears. I threw them out within thirty minutes and replaced them with an old set that only had one speaker working; a much better tradeoff. It is unbelievable difficult to remember how to use station preset function. I figured it out twice only to forget it a few weeks later. It also has this city function that keeps all stations from coming in at all. I really don't understand what the purpose is of that unless you want to listen to white noise to fall asleep.
Last week I finally lost my ShockWave radio, though I will miss it, I plan on trying my luck on something a little better. I could have swore that in the late 90's when you paid between $40-$60 dollars for a walkman you used to get something of slightly better quality. Now all you get in this price range is garbage. Is this progress?
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