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I bought this and after using it a few times, I wish I would not have bought it.Knobs are impossible to turn when wet (small, round and smooth) just what you DON'T want in a shower radio.When you turn it on, it goes from no sound to BLASTING with the smallest adjustment. Nearly impossible to get a non-deafening level.Does stay on the tuned station, drifts up and down.Look for another model.
I purchased this radio/clock a little over a month ago more for the clock then the radio after reading other reviews, but to my surprise the radio has also worked great. The reception is good, it is easy to tune to preferred stations and has worked like a champ. For the price you can't beat it. The mirror does get fogged up after about 10 minutes, but other than that I have had no issues and would recommend this shower radio/clock to others.
The sound quality beats my previous Zadro hands down. Thankfully, at least the display is accurate in that sense so I know which was to tune.What actually caused my to write this review, however, was that the unit will sometimes "go bonkers". This is the second shower radio I've owned, the other being the Zadro Bug.The things I like about this unit include the sound quality, and the digital display. I received this as a gift about three months ago. I found out with use that the sound quality was much better as well. This drifting means I have to constantly retune because once it gets further than 2kHz away, another station starts to bleed in.
On AM radio, it will drift 15kHz over the course of my shower (I have it mounted to a window, so there's a little more temperature difference I suppose).
I can actually listen to talk radio, which wasn't possible with the Zadro.
I've actually witnessed this happen in real-time while "tuned" to 1010 AM.
I use it almost everyday.
The display will start displaying frequencies off the charts, and no radio station is tunable.
The digital display, while isn't always accurate, is way better than markings on a wheel.
By the way, battery life has been pretty phenomenal.What I really don't like about this unit is that the frequency will drift.a lot.
I think this unit isn't as water-resistant as one would hope.The reason I used this instead of the Zadro, was because this one has AM radio in addition to FM (the zadro only had FM).
With the zadro, I had to keep blowing into the speaker to keep the water out of it (it would muffle the sound after a while).I can't comment on either the reception quality, or the cost benefit, because I live sufficiently close to NYC that a transistor lead would be a long enough antenna to receive signal, and because I received it as a gift.
The sound could be better on this and the mirror fogs up very quickly. Digital display is good.
i bought this for my husband so that he could know the time in the morning and listen to the radio before work. big downfall is that the clock doesn't show when you listen to the radio, thus defeating its purpose.
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