PhilipsAudio R5505/10 Bluetooth Radio (Wooden Housing, DAB+/FM Radio, 3-Inch Driver, Kitchen Timer, Mains or Battery Operated), Brown/Grey, 20.7 L x 10.6 W x 14.1 H

A great little radio with excellent quality sound.

Not easy to use (badly designed for station selection and presets recall) so only ideal if you use 1-3 stations and can set them as presets. Otherwise, it’s a handsome radio with very good sound.The display stays on all the time, but if you press (and hold) the standby button it goes into deep standby and the display is off. You have to press and hold the standby button to wake it up again.No headphone out and not much use as a clock as it’s too bright and forget the advertised kitchen timer feature (too complex to use), but as a simple kitchen radio with good sound for a very reasonable price from a top brand, it’s great.

Bought this for my elderly parents to replace an old FM radio they'd had for years. So it had to be easy to use and it is (once I'd stored the stations they listen to - this may be a problem for some but probably no mre difficult than setting up any DAB radio tbf). The DAB and audio quality are very good, considering the price we paid. Very happy!

I bought this radio due to stations leaving DAB and moving onto DAB+. The sounds is full and rich for the size of the radio, I found it easy to use and was working and set up within 10 minutes with three pre sets, and I am not overly techincal! Looks rather nice too for a small radio. Would recommend.

I paid almost £50 on sale for this to replace an older cheapo brand DAB kitchen radio (without DAB+) which I paid around £15 less for...PROS:- Reputable brand so hopefully the buttons will hold up (the ones on my previous radio eventually went haywire). The build quality looks like a step up anyway.- No apparent problems with the DAB+ reception - great.- Bluetooth (if you have a use for it). Beware though, unless I'm mistaken you can't play the radio through a better set of speakers, it can only receive audio from a phone or other device.- Good looking compact modern design.CONS:- The menu system is a bit of a faff initially (as is the kitchen timer 'feature') but ok once you're all set.- Only 3 buttoned presets. (There are 20 in total, it just involves more precious button presses to scroll through.)- The biggie for me is that I expected a better sound for the price, comparing with my older and much cheaper DAB which wasn't much larger but came with stereo speakers nonetheless, which seems to make a big difference. The mid range here is loud and crisp but isn't wide enough - the highs and lows are noticeably muted, I've found. You can set the DRC to High, Low or Off but to my ear none produce a full rich sound, just less tinny and slightly more base with this enabled, but losing even more high end.I'd say that if you just want it to play low in the background or listen to the news/podcasts etc then it's perfectly fine, but if you like to turn up the volume when your favourite track comes on, even moderately, then you'll probably wish you had a half-decent stereo array instead. If the price was £5-10 lower I'd give it another star.

Cons:It sounds extremely muffled.. It can't reproduce anything above 4 kHz.. a complete absence of high frequencies.It is light as a bag of crisps.buttons are too hard to push.. You need 2 hands to push the buttons. One to old the radio and other to push the buttons.Some other reviewers said the printing on buttons will fade away.. I can confirm that too.Very unintuitive to change the stations.Most importantly, very poor reception.. I have to erect the antenna to get anything at all (DAB and FM) even right beside the windows.Pros:hmmmmmm....hmmmmmm.....hmmm...None.

This radio is quite good the tone is not to bad for a small radio very easy to get set up .

I had to upgrade my old DAB radio as it was not DAB+ and decided to go for this radio. The initial impressions are good. The sound is reasonably good for a mono radio. It takes a bit of time to turn on when first switched on. However, the most annoying thing is that when choosing to see the Dynamic Label Segment in DAB mode it does not remember this setting when you turn off the radio. You basically need to choose it every time you turn on the radio which is a bore.