Title: a lot of problems, a few bright spots
Product review: I bought this for $6, at a brick-n-mortar store. It was amusing and quirky at that price. At $10, there are much better deals for quality tuning, like the Sony and Panasonic pocket am/fm radios. Oddly enough, the build quality was OK, the tuning bezel was very stable, and the earphones were OK for the cost, driven with mono sound across both L/R, which is fine. The fm tuning was wide and not very sensitive. The AFC grabbed some station on most of the dial, but they hogged. Sound was ~OK, better with $20 headphones. On AM, there were a few fat dial-hogging locals (tuning bandwidth issue), and a weird squeeling-birdie sound around distant stations. You could tune those in extremely tight range with a lot of tweeking. Night AM was a crazy jungle. There is a lot of promise in the contruction and tuning mechanics, but the tuner circuits are buggy. I liked the pendant-hanging mode, once I shortened the cord a bit w/ a figure 8 knot.
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