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I’ll respond to your comments by firstly saying I was in very little doubt that you’d enjoy the radio - even though you haven’t got far with it as yet -. Sangean are the King of radio sets at the moment, they probably wouldn’t have been had Sony not gotten out of the game but that’s another topic for another time. Setup is a problem for blind people yes, all Sangean Internet radio sets have a “Setup Wizard” and other wizards which can be followed onscreen, they’re quite intuitive actually as I’ve had them read to me many times. Once the setup has been done however then that’s the last you’ll need of it and you’l be able to configure many aspects of the Radio yourself, not all but many. Some can be done from the HTML Interface of the radio, some are done from the remote itself or the front panel whilst others can be done from the Undo App for your IOS or Android device. The areal design is in fact quite straight forward. The aerials were never designed to lock into place when fully collapsed as this radio is not designed to be moved, its a tabletop unit. You will notice that the telescopic aerial can be removed, at the base you’ll find a plastic cover that the aerial protrudes through, the cover is held onto the rear of the radio by two screws. Remove these screws and slide the cover up the whip, you’ll see a F connector to which the aerial is bolted to, a spanner will loosen the aerial for removal and you can plug an outdoor aerial or a super indoor aerial into the place of the telescopic aerial and - in most cases - replace the cover on the back of the radio. The Wi-Fi aerial is short and looks rather robust. I wouldn’t back the radio right against a wall as it will affect audio performance, if you look at the rear of the radio - each side - you’ll see a speaker port and these need to be clear of a wall by at least 1 foot to allow the bass to resonate around the room. FM and DAB receptions are strong points of this and other Sangean radio equipment. If you’ve found the FM band then it won’t be long before you find the DAB, just keep pressing the radio button and allow say 90 seconds after each press, why? This will give the radio time to scan the DAB band which it does automatically by default when its first switched to the DAB band so it may collate a “Station List”, when you’re sure you have the DAB band selected you can use the “Auto Tune” button on the remote to initiate a manual scan. The CD Player only has two additional functions apart from basic play, repeat and random play but that’s enough, a nice sounding CD player and even better when you consider that the CD Player will take multiple audio formats. > On 17 Jan 2017, at 4:08 am, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everybody > > Dane has commented on this radio and now that I have one, I would like too > also. So if you will forgive my meandering ramblings, I shall do so now. > > Be mindful, however, that I have only had this device for a few short hours. > But here are a few of my initial findings: > > • A little disappointed that setup is not as intuitive as setting up the > Amazon Echo, echo Dot or Google Home was. All of those devices are extremely > easy to set up, and all totally accessible right out of the box. > • Build quality is excellent! I like the idea of the removable speaker > covers, so that one can view the drivers. There’s probably a good reason for > that which I have not yet discovered. I regret that my life is so > up-side-down that I don’t recall all of Dane’s comments to the group. But as > I said, these are mine based on my own personal experiences. > • Very nice control layout. Nothing cluttered, nothing too small. > • Audio quality using default settings is utterly excellent. I have managed > to tune into my own local BBC station on FM, just using the internal antenna. > Worked fine, no noise once the signal was found. > • Scanning up/down the frequency ranges is very strait-forward. Hold down one > of the directional buttons for about 2 seconds makes the unit scan the > currently selected band for the next available strong signal. Once located > the device can be fine tuned if necessary but it seems to be sensitive > enough. I didn’t expect miracles using a telescopic antenna indoors. But not > at all bad, and better than many tuners I’ve tried. > • CD player is a little basic, although that’s not really a concern to me. > The low profile front-loading media slot is easy to find, and I’m sure that > the audio from digital media will be excellent also. > • Enough media support to satisfy even the most enthusiastic user. Although I > have not yet established whether the SD card reader is HC or XC. The > definition here is vital! Any self-respecting media device today should be > clear on this point. By that, I mean that the manufacturers aught to make it > clear in the specs list. I haven’t seen it yet but that doesn’t mean it isn’t > listed. It just mean that I haven’t come across that specific item yet. > • I was very much surprised, and most pleasantly so, to discover that the > device sports wired as well as wireless networking. In the latter case, we > are having compatibility issues for some odd reason with my network. But I’m > not overly worried, as I’m having a new client system installed on Wednesday > anyway, so I will wait and get that set up when the new broadband goes live. > There are, however, two omissions in the hardware spec, however, which do > worry me a little. Although there seem to be inserts for wall-mounting > brackets on the rear of the unit, which is good. My slight concern relates to > the telescopic signal antenna, and to the rubberised WiFi antenna. There are > no rear clips to securely lock these antennas in place when they are > distended and folded to the rear panel of the device. I have noticed that, > over time, most of these antennas with knuckle-joints become a little flimsy > as time goes on. Having no locking mechanism does seem a little odd to me. > But I’m sure the designers have a good reason for that. It just eludes me at > present. > • A more discrete AC power input would have been nice. Like most portable > devices in its class it makes use of the standard two-pin AC jack. I’m quite > surprised about that to be honest. I would have expected something a little > more sophisticated on a device of this kind. I need to locate one of the > right-angle connectors I have kicking around the place really, just to ensure > that it’s as discrete as possible when in its default location in my > listening room. > • The InfraRed remote control is nicely populated and laid out. Not too > small, with reasonably-sized buttons, and the actual remote unit is just > about the right size. > > • That’s about as far as I’ve got as yet. I must do more digging before > commenting further. It would be grossly unfair of me to leap to conclusions > based on guesswork. So I shall leave it there for the moment. > > but not too cumbersome either. > > ======================================== > > My compliments and kindest regards > Gordon Smith: > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist. > Mobile/SMS: > +44 (0)7907 823971 > > ———————————————————— > > > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
