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Summary: Another excellent product from this underrated company
Review: Design simplicity at its best; easy to use, compact and attractive. This radio, with its convenient handle, can also be a battery operated portable. As offered, Sangean's Q radio is a modestly priced alternative to the Bose Wave radio. The Q could not be simpler to set up and operate (great for senior citizens and techno-phobes), and actually has a surprising number of extra features, such as a sleep timer, headphone jack, and TV band reception. I prefer its old-fashioned retractable metal antenna, to the messy and ineffective plastic FM antennas, often supplied with this type of radio. The sound is very good,although not exceptional, with a nice sized speaker. I have never been disappointed with Sangean radios, and this one is no exception.
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Summary: Quality and design
Review: Excellent designed FM-AM-TV receiver.
Its sensitivity by far surpases more expensive units like the Bose Wave Radio.
Its features are user friendly and very well defined: rotary tunning knob, direct access buttons, up and down tunning buttons, and tone control that mostly emphasizes treble.
Bass seems to be contoured electronically in some kind of loudness emphasis that it's not switchable.
Overall the sound is very good, well defined, solid and powerful, filling a room easily.
The 5" full range speakers includes a center mounted 1.5" twetter that is evident when adjusting the tone control.
The minus point is that the sound quality does not match that of the Wave Radio, but it cost nearly a quarter of its price!
I also own a Tivoli PAL, but the Q Radio sounds a lot better and has a best defined soundstage, with no fatigue at all after hours of hearing.
At last, the looks: it's the most beautiful piece of equipment I've seen in a long time, the quality inside reflects in the outside.
Overall, you can't go wrong with this radio. It's real value for money.
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Summary: Q Radio and LCD Problem
Review: I have had this radio for over a year, and I like it a lot. But it did have the problem described in an earlier review, in that the LCD display failed after a year and the radio became unusable. Sangean USA replaced the radio even though it was out of warranty, which was great, but was also a indication that the radio has a recurrent problem. I am planning to buy another one, but wanted to assure that the problem would not recur. I emailed Sangean, and they acknowledged the problem in earlier production units. They say it has been fixed for later production units, so according to Sangean the design problem has been resolved.
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Summary: More clock, please!
Review: I like this radio a lot. It has good sound, maybe even a bit too rich for when I'm trying to doze off. It doesn't take up a lot of space on the bedside table. It looks quite "now-tro" (see "A Mighty Wind" if you don't know what I mean) with its wood sides and aero shape. It makes a lovely yellow glow. And I love the "humane" alarm that gets gradually louder.
My 2 quibbles:
1. It's hard to tell the buttons apart by feel, so it takes me longer than I'd like to turn off the alarm.
2. After the radio has been on for a few seconds, I'd really like it if the display changed from the tuner to the clock. I don't like having to look somewhere else for the time. But I'm getting used to it. I'll be OK, don't worry.
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Summary: Sagean Q has serious faults as a clock radio.
Review: I purchased the Sangean Q for use primarily as a clock radio. The problem is that when the radio comes on to wake me up, the time does not display, just the station frequency. To see the time, you must turn off the radio. I'm in the habit of listening to the radio for a while before getting out of bed, and I don't want to have to keep reaching over to turn the radio off and on to check on the time. Another problem is that the display is angled up so that it can only be read from above. Therefore, if the radio is located next to the bed on a nightstand, it cannot be read by someone lying in bed.On the positive side, it has excellent tone and station holding properties and looks nice, although the wood panels on the sides of the gray version (comes in gold or gray)don't appear to have any finish, making me wonder if they will becomed soiled too easily. My experience with the supplier was not good. The first Sangean Q I received did not work correctly, and it took two telephone calls, a trip to the UPS dropoff center, and three weeks to get a replacement.
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Summary: Sagean Q has serious faults as a clock radio.
Review: I purchased the Sangean Q for use primarily as a clock radio. The problem is that when the radio comes on to wake me up, the time does not display, just the station frequency. To see the time, you must turn off the radio. I'm in the habit of listening to the radio for a while before getting out of bed, and I don't want to have to keep reaching over to turn the radio off and on to check on the time. Another problem is that the display is angled up so that it can only be read from above. Therefore, if the radio is located next to the bed on a nightstand, it cannot be read by someone lying in bed. On the positive side, it has excellent tone and station holding properties and looks nice, although the wood panels on the sides of the gray version (comes in gold or gray)don't appear to have any finish, making me wonder if they will becomed soiled too easily. My experience with the supplier was not good. The first Sangean Q I received did not work correctly, and it took two telephone calls, a trip to the UPS dropoff center, and three weeks to get a replacement.
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Summary: Great Bedside Radio
Review: My Sangean Q arrived via Fedex within 7 days of placing the order. I was impressed immediately with the classic retro design
and the obvious assembly quality. The controls, large knobs and buttons, are very easy to see, feel, and manipulate. The backlighting glows a warm golden shade and can be turned off. The various buttons on top that control functions are designed to make their use intuitive - I set the radio up to my preferences, and then read the manual! Very simple and straight forward. Station reception is excellent, very important in rural east Texas. This quality, and the 5 pre-sets on each band, remind me of a car radio. The sound is pleasant and well balanced, a little weak on bass presence and separation, but considering the price and size, very adequate, and better than most other radios in this price range. The Sangean Q is a fine, general purpose radio with above average convience features and sound. Keep the batteries fresh and you'll have a great emergency radio to boot!
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Summary: Q Radio and LCD Problem
Review: This radio is solid. The controls feel precise. The 1960-retro vertical styling makes it unusually handy to carry around as a portable. It has sound quality at least as good as any mono portable radio I've ever heard, and it provides stereo FM although, of course, only when you use headphones. Unusually, it also has selectivity and sensitivity to match its other strengths. It picks up weak and distant stations as it should (and as most radios unfortunately don't), making it useful in rural areas, while camping, and so on. It might not be quite as good as the GE Superadio III in this regard, but it's close, has some good features the GE doesn't, and it tunes much more easily. On the other hand, if you're REALLY out in the boonies, external antennas can help you catch the weakest signals; and while the GE has terminals for both AM and FM external antennas, the Q Radio has AM antenna jacks only. This is a radio with a clock, not a clock radio. If you want to use it as a clock radio only, its display will disappoint you; it is angled upward, making it hard to see when it's at eye level as on a bedside table, and it can't show the radio frequency and the time at once. However, it does sound far better than any clock radio I've ever had. In special circumstances, the fact that the Q Radio will still wake you on time even if power fails, or is not available at all, may lead you to prefer it to the more usual clock radios. Although easy to operate, many of its controls have multiple functions. This can be slightly confusing at first. However, they're pretty thoroughly labeled, so you shouldn't have any trouble figuring them out.
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Summary: It's Just Nice
Review: This radio is solid. The controls feel precise. The 1960-retro vertical styling makes it unusually handy to carry around as a portable. It has sound quality at least as good as any mono portable radio I've ever heard, and it provides stereo FM although, of course, only when you use headphones. Unusually, it also has selectivity and sensitivity to match its other strengths. It picks up weak and distant stations as it should (and as most radios unfortunately don't), making it useful in rural areas, while camping, and so on. It might not be quite as good as the GE Superadio III in this regard, but it's close, has some good features the GE doesn't, and it tunes much more easily. On the other hand, if you're REALLY out in the boonies, external antennas can help you catch the weakest signals; and while the GE has terminals for both AM and FM external antennas, the Q Radio has AM antenna jacks only. This is a radio with a clock, not a clock radio. If you want to use it as a clock radio only, its display will disappoint you; it is angled upward, making it hard to see when it's at eye level as on a bedside table, and it can't show the radio frequency and the time at once. However, it does sound far better than any clock radio I've ever had. In special circumstances, the fact that the Q Radio will still wake you on time even if power fails, or is not available at all, may lead you to prefer it to the more usual clock radios. Although easy to operate, many of its controls have multiple functions. This can be slightly confusing at first. However, they're pretty thoroughly labeled, so you shouldn't have any trouble figuring them out.
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Summary: Sangean PR-D2 , Not bad, Not great
Review: This radio looks great. I really liked the style. However, that's about all I really liked. Another reviewer compared the sound to the Bose Wave radio. Either they've never heard the Bose or they were just really happy with the price comparison. At high volumes the radio sounds ok but at lower volumes it sounds like it play from inside a cardboard box. I could live with that but my real disappointment was with the tuning. I live in the mountains where radio reception is difficult. Usually "PLL Synthesized Digital Tuning for rock stable reception of AM/FM" is exactly that. In this radio the tuning is stable but the reception was worse than other cheap dial tuning radios that I own. Often raising the antenna made the reception even worse. I really wanted to like this radio but it's just lacking in too many areas. The clock vs frequency display feature is another really bad idea.
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