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1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 high hopes..., 2008-11-18
I was thrilled to find a reasonable price on this unit. However, it's ability to receive FM is compromised and the HD is impossible. Rooftop dedicated RF antenna with no FM blocks...disappointing reception for sure. It's compact size is unique and utilitarian. Apart from poor performance, I like it. But then again, I like some empty cigar boxes too but they don't pull in RF freq either. I had a Sony STJ-75 previously and it worked well-prior to the lightening attack years ago that is.
 total bang for buck!, 2008-11-14
I got this unit and find that it will search and connect to many more HD radio stations than my more expensive Polk Audio system... The size is small and has a big legible led text screen. I bought some M-audio studiophile monitors and returned them after reading about the quality of Bose speakers, that were priced the same, $99.99 at a Bose store and though not exceedingly loud, the combination of this sony and the bose speakers is outstanding... I like to set the sleep function and or have HD presets to toggle through, or search through... Only one issue, which is the same for all HD radios, is that when I select a HD station, it sometimes takes a few seconds to resolve to hear it; but other than that a definite bang for your buck; couple with Bose speakers at $99.99 sounds incredible, very palpable, audible, and not blaring and very clear.-Which if you like, they have pricier Bose speaker models/ systems. Bose speakers will allow for TWO rca inputs, thus you are able to connect Sony and another DVD player separately, directly into the bose 2 rca inputs on the back of the Bose speaker itself.... That is something the competition does not have, like the M-audio speakers... This could also be incorporated into and existing system, but have to say that this with Bose speakers, makes for a very small footprint and huge audio... This is a good system coupled with Bose, if you want small and big sound- they had some much smaller speakers that bose made for like 2 or 3 times as much, $.$$ then in effect that would be even smaller and produce an even more rich roomy high tech decibels- fantastic sound; I heard them in the local Bose store... If you are looking around, would say best does not always have to break the bank... Also, you will need an RCA cable if you are to do the sony/bose setup....
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
Good option for whole house audio., 2008-11-13
Added this unit to a whole house audio installation - works great and picks up stations very well. It's hard to find a simple tuner to add to whole house systems without spending a fortune, but this one fits the bill just perfectly.
Only negative on the unit would be that I have not been able to get universal remotes to talk to it yet. Included remote works fine, but then the client has one more remote to deal with. Otherwise it works great.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
Fantastic!!!, 2008-11-11
Bought this item because I was tired of not getting decent radio reception from my office at work. I work about 12 miles from our local small town and reception has always been terrible. This little radio/tuner gives me great reception even from the smallest stations.
The only problem I had was that I initially didn't know what to do for speakers and didn't want to spend a bunch more $$ on speakers with RCA jacks. I ended up buying a decent pair of computer speakers and bought a RCA adapter for them so I could hook into the RCA jacks and it has worked out perfectly.
1 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 Not Ready For Prime Time!, 2008-11-10
This unit reminds me of a class project in Electronics Lab 101. It's as if they just threw together some off the shelf parts to see if they could get an HD radio to work. It's definitely not a polished product ready for production. It has a standard tuner and data decoder module mounted on a small PC board with a large power transformer and 3 terminal regulator on a heatsink. Who still uses a large power transformer these days? All the components get so hot they will burn you but there shouldn't be any high power components producing a lot of heat on a radio, radio circuits are normally low power. The unit has a lot of other drawbacks besides overheating, the display won't turn off at night, it doesn't remember favorite channel settings more than a few minutes when power is lost and the time goes back to flashing 12:00 like an old VCR.
The software programming has a lot of problems. You can't enter the frequency for a radio station from the front panel or the remote, all you can do is step up or down through all the frequencies one at a time so it takes a long time to get up and down the dial. It has a search function for HD stations but doesn't remember them.
Once stations are programmed as favorites they can be accessed by the number pad on the remote but if power goes off those are lost.
There are no RF amplifiers, the antenna inputs go right to the tuner module. Reception was about average on FM but AM was totally useless with the supplied wire loop antenna and wouldn't pick up anything indoors besides hum and noise. It needs to have a shielded type F connector for AM in order to connect an outside antenna to get decent reception like it has for FM. I removed the two terminal connector from the PC board and installed an F connector, then with an outside antenna the AM reception was only fair. It still won't match a good car radio for reception but with an 8' CB whip installed on the roof I could get all the HD radio stations from Phoenix about 30 miles away in the daytime. The signal strength has to peg the little bar graph display in order to get HD so when the AM stations cut power at night none of them will come in with HD except the Disney channel. Another station would try to come in at night but HD cut in and out all the time which was very annoying. There is no way to stop it from trying to play in HD all the time as there is with the Sangean HDT-1X. The Sangean has an RF amplifier at the AM input so the reception is slightly better but the weaker AM stations still won't come in with HD at night on the Sangean either, except for Disney. If you want a decent HD radio get the Sangean HDT-1X. It's more expensive but not nearly as annoying and doesn't overheat.
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