AM FM Portable Shortwave Radio with Bluetooth,Plug in Wall or Battery Powered,Rechargeable Radio with Strong Recepiton,Headphone Jack,SD/USB Slot,Good for Home Seniors Elderly

I purchased the radio for a good friend and he was pleasantly surprised at how well the Bluetooth feature worked with his cell phone apps. Distance was really impressive. The radio has several sources of power, too. It's handsome to look at, and tough enough for the garage! In my buddy's case, he put it out in his "Sugar Shack" and had it to listen while boiling maple sugar water for syrup! It held up very well, and he's still raving about it! An excellent radio with full features and super low price.

The size is nice for home or travel. It was easy tuning in my favorite am channel. The volume is good and sound is mono which is OK for me. It looks good and great functionality such as bluetooth and shortwave frequency.

I'm a retro-loving guy, and grew up in a time when we got our music from transistor radios rather than phones; I like having a speaker, and a unit that you could sit somewhere, and have the sound fill a room. This am/fm unit fits that bill, and has a rich, faux-woodgrain look that makes it a real blast from the past! With battery prices high, the rechargeable battery in the unit is a real plus, or you could run it off a power cord or your own batteries...but why would you want to? Station reception and speaker volume and tone are pretty good for the price, although this is not Sony or Panasonic quality...and yes,, the unit will take SD cards and USB sticks.. For the price, this all works for me!

I now have two of these great little radios! To start with, the radio has great reception especially on FM, AM is about what you would expect, but I was pleasantly surprised the many SW stations I was able to pull in just using the onboard telescoping antenna. The ability to use digital media with this radio was what interested me initially and I was not let down! I keep one of these on my nighstand and the other goes out with on t he patio or working in the yard, campfires, and other outdoor activities. I was also amazed when after a good charge, this lttle radio played hours and hours of music off the thumbdrive. It pretty much outlasted me working outside nearly a whole Saturday! I am extremely pleased with this radio, well, I bought two at this point and do recommend them!

I mean it works but if you're thinking of getting it for an elderly relative I wouldn't bother, the Tecsun pl-680 is a far better radio.This Audio Crazy is a DSP radio which means that it's not as easy to tune as a pure analogue radio, there is no fine tune so it can be difficult to tune weaker Shortwave stations as the stations can be quite close together but the way it latches on to stronger stations can be difficult to find weaker stations, that's due to the digital signal processing, DSP.There is some kind of soft muting which makes it difficult to listen to weaker stations as it's always making a kind of pumping noise as if the audio level is being automatically increased and decreased and it's annoying, you just can't beat pure analogue radios.The Tecsun PL-680 is a wonderful radio and it's a far more enjoyable radio to use and much easier to tune because it has more bands , this means the tuner is far more spread out and the stations don't appear right on top of each other. It uses a digital tuner.The PL-680 has ssb which can tune in ham radio bands too.The display on the AudioCrazy is difficult to read as it's too dark and no backlight and it's quite small, the radio itself is quite small.If you want a radio that has an analogue dial for tuning around then make sure you get a radio that has an accurate display or get an old one on the other shopping platofrm that sells 2nd hand stuff and get an old sony or Hitachi, sanyo etc, stick to the good old Japanese brands.This audiocrazy is decent, reception is really excellent but it really could do with more bands and easier to tune as the tuning knob is quite stiff.

Smaller than I thought. Since all the pics were Photoshopped it's about the size of a half gallon carton of milk. If you're expecting a "bookshelf" radio that looks good with a shelf of novels next to it, it's not that big. It's small enough to be a nightstand radio; books could knock it over.The sound quality is about the same as any FM Radio single speaker unit. Not great and not garbage. You're not getting Extra Bass or an EQ, but it's sufficiently loud to be in a Garage with the occasional engine or power tool overpowering it. So it's good.Was able to test BT and FM. FM reception is seriously decreased when it is unplugged, even using the antenna, it seems the house power wires aid in reception. So if it's going to be a beach or outdoor companion keep that in mind. Bluetooth, the audio sounds weirdly mixed, but I can't fault the unit as any stereo to mono conversion is going to make a song sound off. (How do you play a stereo track with one speaker? Let's be fair.)If anything would make me take a star off: the "noise floor" of the device is audible even when plugged in. Yes, there's an interior rechargable battery. Which means not only is it still technically on, the hum has me concerned it's got the same power drain when it is OFF as it does when ON (once charged, prob. a good idea to unplug the little guy if it's not in use.) If it's a true garage radio, you may not care much about the internal battery at all. And nothing that a power strip with an accessible off switch can't solve.I've had this for a day. If any of this changes, I'll revise.