Sangean America DT-210 DT-210 AM/FM Digital Tuning Pocket Radio
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Customer Review: Nice Radio, but not perfect
Summary: 4 Stars
I've had my Sangean DT-210 AM/FM radio for a few weeks now. It was a bit pricey, but it gets better all around reception than my old, Radio Shack pocket radio. I use the Sangean a lot to listen to talk radio. It's quite small, weighs practically nothing, and it easily fits into most any pocket. The only problem I have is pre-setting stations, and then recalling the stations I saved. To recall I have to hold down one buttton while scanning through the saved stations with another button. My old radio was a lot easier to program and move about the ten, saved stations. It was a one button setup. But, The Radio Sheck lost the pre-sets when changing batteries. The Sangean gives you a few minutes to change the batteries to save the pre-sets. Speaking of batteries, my old radio ate AAA's like crazy. It took three AAA's. The Sangean takes two AAA's. I am still using the batteries I first installed. The Sangean batteries are much easier to change. The Radio Shack receiver was also heavier and a bit larger. The Sangean came with ear buds, a belt clip, and an antenna wire for FM. It has a nice display as well. However, I dislike the switch on the side to change from the external speaker to headphones. My old radio would just cut out the speaker when I plugged in the headphones. The manual that came with the Sangean is also a bit difficult to understand. All in all, the Sangean DT-210 is a nice radio, but it isn't perfect.Customer Review: Pick a different Sangean
Summary: 1 Stars
I've had two types of Sangean radios of this size and I use them to fall asleep at night. I thought this model would be a big improvement over the larger black one, but changing stations is hitting one button and then another button and then if you wait a few seconds, you have to do that all over again.
With the slightly larger black unit, you just push one button to go through every programmed channel in every band, much more convenient. This unit has good sound quality and would be the best unit they ever produced if only they had made the channel surfing a one button deal that was always available instead of button, button, button, button.
Except for the pain in the tuckus channel changing this is an excellent unit, but for me that one annoyance dooms it. Buy a Sangean, just not this particular model.
Also, the older black and very small silver models had a headset jack that broke easily and they have replaced that with a good jack and Sangean offered to trade in the old models with defective headset jacks for newer units of the same style. That was certainly a positive demonstration of good customer service. Anyone can buy a defective part for their production line, not every company will be so ethical as to replace the unit well after the warranty because they found out they had sourced a defective part.
Customer Review: Sweet radio, though should have been better.
Summary: 4 Stars
Nice small radio piece, with some problems, at least for me personally. First of all, really stupid not making it compatible with the AC power adaptor. I personally use this radio to listen to my favorite show Coast To Coast AM at nights, so having it with AC power adaptor, would have been nice, without a need to use batteries. Another thing, I believe I already read it somewhere here, is the volume button acting up. I think making it a button type volume controller would have been much better. Instead it is a wheel type controller, recently I started to notice that it makes frequency to omit static-like sounds when you change the volume level. It also makes sound go either very loud or very low when you try to smoothly change it. I don't use supplied headphones, instead I use Panasonic buds, great item btw. Don't really know if the supplied antennae wire helps or not, never had a need to use it.
Another great thing about this radio is the 90 minute shut-off function. You can set it On or Off. After 90 minutes it would shut-off, and as I have said, with me listening to late night radio, I frequently fall asleep, so it saves some battery life with automatic shut-off.
Maybe with all the suggestions from reviewers, they can come up with the ultimate pocket-size radio piece.
Until then, enjoy this baby.
Customer Review: Great Receiver
Summary: 5 Stars
I agree with the review posted as The King Of The Pocket Portables - A Classic, October 31, 2005
By William H III.
Having researched extensively before buying a couple of years ago, this looked like the best choice of sensitivity, portability, usability, and overall quality.
It is everything I could want. Living on the edge of the Texas High Plains and the New Mexico desert, we are in between some good radio stations. The only problem is that you must go 5oo+ miles to find them (Denver, Ft. Worth - Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, etc.
This small pocket sized receiver does everybit as good as the high priced, highly amplified signal, rotatable antenna setups in the house.
I bought it to use when walking. Even though I can no longer walk, it did great pulling in everything I could get at home. It is far better than my car radio on the road. So, I often put in on the dash -- or in my pocket if the family is asleep, or wants to hear something besides my choices. The ear buds work fine.
Reception is clear. Discrimination is very good when we must reach a relatively weak station in Cincinnati, etc. alongside a powerful Mexico station on the border, etc.
Rate me highly pleased in every way.
Customer Review: Mediocre reception and battery life
Summary: 3 Stars
I've had it for 8 months now. My biggest complaint: lousy reception for all but a few stations which are very strong. It has no built in antenna. Wow! They saved a tenth of a cent of aluminum. A great saving for them -with the trade-off being a radio that can't receive stations.
Instead, it requires use of a pair of headphones, or a little plug in wire that you can lose in about five minutes, to act as an antenna. Stations that my car or home stereo can pick up with ease are filled with static, drift in and out, or have bleed thru from other stations which are not that close on the dial. Even at the gym, where the tv's are broadcasting on their own little FM station from a handful of feet away, and the radio is stationary on the treadmill, the station can be filled with static and drift in and out. WIthout headphones or the losable wire, there's nothing but static.
No battery meter either, so it just dies very suddenly. With a pair of NiMH batteries I get maybe 8-10 hours, which is okay, but nothing great.
Button controls are a little confusing, not well labeled, and clunky wading through all the station pre-sets in a serial manner.
Can't see myself buying another one of these when this one bites the dust.