Koss PP257 Water-Resistant Sports Armband Digital Radio (Yellow)

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Summary: Not great quality
Review: Headphones are cheap and fall apart easily. Radio gets bad reception. Arm band isn't handy at all. Its design is sorta neat (although it's ugly), but that's the only good thing I can say for it. I'd not reccomend that you buy it.

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Summary: Good value at the sale price of $19.95.
Review: I like the unit. It is small & light weight. Reception is great...I can receive all of my favorite stations very clearly without any static. I am disspointed that Amazon advertises this unit as having 10 FM and 10 AM pre-set stations. It only has 10 pre-set's total (5 FM and 5 AM). I highly recommend this unit at the sale price of $19.95.

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Summary: like it now
Review: I have only used Sony products in the past, but have had quality problems. I went to the store to replace my current sony sportswalkman with the arm band sony and noticed that the price was $20.00 less for the koss. I bought it and had concerns. But after using the product, i am totally satisfied. It took only a few minutes to get use to the differnt set-up and the armband works great. I especially like the fact that it can not be turned on by a button, like my sonys; no more dead batteries on a long run.

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Summary: koss pp257 not all it's talked up to be
Review: I saw the koss PP257 in the picture and then saw the price and thought not bad. I went ahead and bought it but when i took it out for a run it didn't give me what i expected. I live on the north shore of long island and experienced a lot of static and fading in and out of the stations. I've used other products like the sony ones and didn't experience any of the fading in and out. What really attracted me to the item was its price. I do recomend this product if you exercize at home but if you run in the out doors spend the extra money and get yourself another product.

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Summary: Koss PP257 - poor reception!
Review: I had trouble with this product, it simply does not receive most radio stations clearly. Within the Capitol Hill and University districts of Seattle, the only station that tuned-in well was KUOW (public radio). That's fine to feed my NPR addiction, but even the more powerful commercial stations didn't tune-in clearly. A major bummer.

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Summary: Poor Reception
Review: Very bad reception in the city as well as the suburbs. I can only listen to a number of radio stations without interference.

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Summary: Good Reception
Review: I read a nearby review about how this radio didn't pick up any stations in the Green Lake area of Seattle. I live about a mile from there and decided to go out on a limb (what the heck-it's only 25 bucks) anyway. I'm glad I did. This little rocket gets super reception and I'm convinced the batteries will never wear out. A must have for student/bus traveller/runner/bicyclist types like myself.

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Summary: Koss PP257 Review
Review: I agree with "An electronics fan" - ignore the bad review. It's light, it will mount easily on anything, and reception is good enough in both bands indoors and out. I used to live close to Green Lake - this radio WILL pick up local AM and FM stations there. If you want to receive distant stations, pick a more powerful radio and deal with the bulk and weight penalty.

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Summary: A MUST FOR THOSE LONG RUNS
Review: Trained for a marathon with this radio. Found no receptionproblems outdoors in Philadelphia area (does not work indoors). Greatvalue for the radio features, but forget about the stop watch. All the serious runners I know have a special wrist watch for this purpose anyway, so it's redundant. END

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Summary: Very Disappointed
Review: I purchased this Koss radio because it was small, light-weight, and had a stop watch feature which would be perfect to use during my workouts at Green Lake in Seattle. I was so excited when it arrived, but my excitement quickly changed to disappointment the first time I tried to use it and didn't get any reception. I know there is great reception at Green Lake because I have a larger Walkman that works just fine. My advice to potential buyers would be... Don't waste your time, you will likely be as disappointed as I am!