Greadio Portable AM FM Radio with MP3 Player, Best Reception Pocket Radio, Large LCD Screen and Easy to Use, 6 EQ Stereo, Earphone Jack for Jogging, Walking, Camping

I grew up in the golden age of radio. Everyone listened to radio, TV hadn't replaced it. I knew what a good radio was. As a kid I designed and built my own dirt-simple radios -- crystal sets, superregens -- but even those I did exceptionally well. Commercial radio design didn't require 21st century technology, it required taking pride in the radio engineering craft. They made 'em pretty because the outward appearance should be consistent with the performance. Most modern radios other than the $10 pocket Sony knockoffs are loaded with "features" designed by engineers who as far as I can tell grew up on TV and video games and never actually listened to a radio themselves.Ten years ago I paid nearly $200 for a simple table model AM-FM radio designed and made in the USA for people who wanted a good radio and remembered what one was. The guts were modern, no vacuum tubes, but they used the technology right. They even got the acoustical engineering right, the 3 inch speaker had good range and low distortion. Soooo easy to tune, it used a real air dielectric variable capacitor. Unfortunately due to some difficult life circumstances, I had to get rid of it. Several days ago I spotted this on Amazon, and read the reviews including by electrical engineers and old folks who remember what a good radio is. Folks, this thing is a work of art both interior and exterior. Somewhere there's an engineer who remembers how to get it right. THANK YOU!. Even the box it's shipped in is nice. I don't know how they did this for $21 delivered to my front door.******Battery life? I'm a stickler for battery life. In my own designs I count every microampere. Haven't had this one long enough to know how long batteries will last. I'm not expecting to get the "almost forever" battery life I get from my $10 all-analog Sony.It's got a 57 mm (2 1/4") speaker. They couldn't have gotten a larger one in there. But..... the enclosure works against it. Most pocket radios there is zero acoustical engineering, they don't know how and don't care anyhow. This one I'm sure they cared, I think they tried to boost the low end by getting just the right amount of acoustical impedance in the vent in the rear. But, with that acoustical volume to work with, you can't get loud AND good fidelity. It's a compromise. ..... This unit is good by comparison with other pocket radios. If you want better fidelity, the headphone jack can probably supply that.

As a long-time radio broadcaster, I enjoy tuning around both AM & FM bands to see what local content still remains.The digital tuner on this unit is quite good and AM reception works better than most current radios (most spend less on the AM side than was done years ago).FM is very good sounding, deserving of a good set of headphones.MP3 player is a nice addition.MUCH better unit that new knob tuner radios. However there is no speaker, if that is what you want.

Bought this for my wife to replace her Retekess portable pocket radio (reviewed elsewhere) because besides being a radio, it also has a mini SD card slot that allows recording and listening to podcasts. She still uses the Retekess radio because its internal aerial has better reception, whereas the external aerial on this unit has to be extended for clear reception.

This radio and mp3 player packs alot of Bass.Volume is way more than Adequate.2200 songs on my SD card with no problem.The EQ has 6 settings really makes a difference .Battery last along time.I use TCL Elit200 earbuds work better than the included one's .

I'm not very happy with this product. The quality is not great but we could live with it. The AM sound is not great either. Static and noisy. If you keep turning around it becomes barely acceptable. The main reason I returned it and gave it a poor rating is because I could not clear the presets. There are no instructions for clearing one reset. They supply a pin tool to reset the radio to factory settings which is supposed to clear all presets. But it did not work. I looked for a solution on the internet but the AI gave instructions that didn't work. At this point I felt I spent enough time on a new product that was giving me agita.

I listen to the radio almost all day and am always on the lookout for nice battery run portables so I can move around and take them as I need. This radio is pretty and unique looking, yep, yep. Sound is crisp as long as you listen to FM. Which I mostly don't. On AM talk stations there is a constant buzz of static on every inflection and syllable making some stations too irritating to listen to...I'm talking the big, major stations, not some barely-there-im-amazed-I'm -picking-this-up station. The dial is a nice bright glow I couldn't replicate via photos but that's my one selling point for you. However, the radio itself without the pleasant wood front, is very, very light and made of plastic. Any breeze or flap of a fly's wing will change the station since the dial turns like butter. If it was "tighter" or heavier so it'd have some stick to its location it'd help. The radio falls over easily since the wood front is the heavy side but the whole thing is super light. If you lay it flat you're fine. Sound, when you get a non buzzy station is very good. I don't mind paying a bit for a good product but this is a light plastic mimimum radio to which a nice light laser etched wood front has been added and in my eyes it's way overpriced. I adore any craftsmanship or creativity so thought the extra $ would be worth it since someone, they say, makes the wood additions but the dial is not good and the buzzing is maddening even just to listen to the weather to see if that apocalyptic storm is still coming in any minute like they tell us every day a cloud is in the sky. I have purchased several cheaper, clearer color radios (I think we're not supposed to say who or what?....) that I'd say are better sound so I was a bit underwhelmed by this one.