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 Dissapointing remote control and sound quality. November 21, 2008
Hephaestion (Ayrshire, Scotland)
This unit comes at a good price from Amazon, particularly with free delivery BUT:
1. The remote control has no separate buttons. It only has dimples on the surface which respond poorly if at all to your key pushes. In my case the battery compartment was also stuck closed and so the battery could not be replaced.
2. The sound quality of the unit is perhaps fine for music, but dissapointingly heavy or bassy and lacking in clarity for speech. There is no tone control.
The buttons on the radio fascia are also small and fiddly. The fake wood veneer was also very pale and unconvincing compared to the photograph on the Amazon image.
Item was returned the next day for refund. Disappointing.
 More of the same.... excellent! November 21, 2008
Christopher Wells (Sheffield, England.)
Lots of people have said how great this machine is, and I wont rehearse what they have said. But I must just enthuse about how pleased I have been so far. Opened it an hour ago, and have already tested it out and it really is so easy to just listen to BBC shows on demand (lots of them, and from different days of the week), connect to PC and also listen to radio in countries all over the world. It will completely transform my radio listening...
Just one comment: this is a 'bedside' radio. The speaker is not huge, the output is not loud, and the quality is not as clear as a digital radio. It suits me absolutely fine, and the benefit of internet stations far outweighs sound quality. BUT if you want crystal clear sound, or a really loud machine, and don't want to use 'listen again' features, or listen to stations that are unavailable on a digital radio, I think you'd be better off just buying a DAB.
INTERNET RADIO IS THE WAY FORWARD !
Cheers
 Forget DAB if you have wireless internet November 20, 2008
wmb (UK)
We moved away from London and found that we could no longer get a good clear reception of LBC so we had to listen on Sky which meant our TV had to be on in the bedroom and hated it because of the light from the TV screen
I bought Intempo because it was cheap and if I did not like I could send back. All I can say, FORGET DAB Radio, if you have wireless internet, get an Internet Radio the are the best thing.
I would have given 5 stars but for one thing, I found if my wireless SSID was hidden I could not get connection to the Internet, which for security I like to hide my wirelsss SSID. That is the only con for me.
Apart from that, it has an alarm and sleep function which is what we needed. We can no fall asleep and wake to LBC + loads and loads and loads and loads and loads of other stations from around the world!
A Few Tweaks Would Give It 5 Stars.... November 18, 2008
B. Hans (uk)
I've been playing around with this for an hour now and really enjoying the near limitless choice of stations and superb sound quality - I live in an area with poor DAB reception and have been used to a burbling sound on all DAB stations, this bit of kit gets around that nicely and without an obtrusive aerial. (although some stations are only available in 36kbps and the sound from these is terrible)
I had the intempo hooked up to my wireless in less than 5 minutes, all you need to do is scan for your wireless network name then put in your WEP key and away you go.
I thought the huge array of stations would make navigating them tricky, and it can be if you just rely on the radio browse stations - but if you register your radio with the reciva web site, you simply select your favourite stations on the web site and hey presto, they appear in a favourites folder on the radio! - A tailor made channel list which is very easy to browse. (Takes about 5-10 secs between selecting a station and the station playing)
The listen again feature is fantastic. Some stations (pretty much ALL of the bbc stations) allow you to listen to previous broadcasts. So if you HATE the DJ who is on (eg George Lamb - imbecile) you can listen to a better show (eg Adam and Joe - genius), or just get your weekly fix of gardener's question time at any time.
This missed out on 5 stars as some of the buttons could be improved. The scroll dial acts as the on/off switch when pressed, as opposed to 'select', which seems counter intuitive - i keep on turning the damn thing off when i want to select something! (i'm sure i will get used to it though...)
Also, to get to your favourites folder takes 4 button presses and a bit of scrolling - surely a dedecated favourites button would've made this easier seeing as how using the favourites folder is probably going to be the most user friendly way of changing stations
Would've been nice to be able to rip audio straight to a usb stick via the port, but i guess that could be open to abuse........
All in all really happy with this product despite a couple of fiddly niggles, but at the price amazon is selling this thing for can't really grumble, it's a bargain!
Excellent product for the money November 18, 2008
Dr. K. Billen (UK)
Simple to set up, thousands of station choices, BBC stations work well (unlike with some other similar products), never fails to find the wireless network, quite nice sound quality (if it was stereo I'd have given it 5 stars), channel changes are quick, never any audio glitches, and controls are simple to use. In summary, the best web radio I have owned and I wholeheartedly recommend it.
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