What a lovely little radio !! Continuing to enjoy your channel-you are one of my most favourite on TH-cam !!! God Bless you,and please continue featuring the various products on your channel !! One of your biggest fans Tony Banks
Great review! I went though 4 radios this month, trying to find the best one for me. I settled on the Sangean SG-118. I would love to see your review. I'm blown away by it. I paired it with a Wiim Pro airplay which supports casting and broadcast via Bluetooth to a Bluetooth speaker.
I wonder if you connect to the website as it tried to do with that PIN number you can do searches on the web. Of course that functionality would depend upon the continued existence of their web portal. As I recall the Ocean radio you reviewed a while ago used a crowdsourced portal and had manual ways to add stations? I think the LC90 you reviewed had a way of searching if you scanned a QR code?
Yikes, no headphone jack for the Choyong A8W portable radio? That's crazy. That's a major oversight from Choyong that should pay attention to its competition like Retekess, Prunus, or other well-established competitors like Sony, Panasonic, etc.
Sounded fine. Note for internet radios. If it lets you select alphabetically, .remember US and Canada call letters. US are easiest to search, W and K call letters. Canada is easy of CK, CF and some other two letter combos to consider, but far less station to look for than US.
In many ways modern tech it taking us backwards. In the 70's all you needed was batteries and your radio played lots of good stuff. WRIF comes to mind. And we bought our own music and made tapes for the car or parties or instead of the records. Now it's all nothing and with a stroke of an electron can be erased. Long live the Turntable and Vinyl.
I like the retro look of the Choyong R1 radio. Prunus has a smaller similar-looking retro unit, the J-160, that packs a punch for such a small radio. :)
I just bought A8W and its great, loading station speed is based on yout wifi mine loads in seconds , so its not the radio that makes it slow, takes a bit og getting used to the menus
That buffering up of internet radios seems to take F-O-R-E-V-E-R on that little unit. Lack of a headphone jack is also a shame. On the other hand, not a bad little unit. However, for the nearly $120 for that thing, get the Ocean Digital one which is about $80, plus it has headphone jack as well as a proper antenna. I think that is the better unit.
What a lovely little radio !!
Continuing to enjoy your channel-you are one of my most favourite on TH-cam !!!
God Bless you,and please continue featuring the various products on your channel !!
One of your biggest fans
Tony Banks
Great review!
I went though 4 radios this month, trying to find the best one for me. I settled on the Sangean SG-118. I would love to see your review. I'm blown away by it.
I paired it with a Wiim Pro airplay which supports casting and broadcast via Bluetooth to a Bluetooth speaker.
I wonder if you connect to the website as it tried to do with that PIN number you can do searches on the web. Of course that functionality would depend upon the continued existence of their web portal. As I recall the Ocean radio you reviewed a while ago used a crowdsourced portal and had manual ways to add stations? I think the LC90 you reviewed had a way of searching if you scanned a QR code?
I know I've said it before, but it amazes me that they can fit so many features in a small space. Seems like "Star Trek", but in real life.
We're living in the future...future...future... Hahaha! So true though. :)
Yikes, no headphone jack for the Choyong A8W portable radio? That's crazy. That's a major oversight from Choyong that should pay attention to its competition like Retekess, Prunus, or other well-established competitors like Sony, Panasonic, etc.
Uses USB-C headphones
Aux/Ext switch allows for auxiliary audio input or external antenna input
Sounded fine.
Note for internet radios. If it lets you select alphabetically, .remember US and Canada call letters.
US are easiest to search, W and K call letters. Canada is easy of CK, CF and some other two letter combos to consider, but far less station to look for than US.
USB-C head phones work
In many ways modern tech it taking us backwards. In the 70's all you needed was batteries and your radio played lots of good stuff. WRIF comes to mind. And we bought our own music and made tapes for the car or parties or instead of the records. Now it's all nothing and with a stroke of an electron can be erased. Long live the Turntable and Vinyl.
I like the retro look of the Choyong R1 radio.
Prunus has a smaller similar-looking retro unit, the J-160, that packs a punch for such a small radio. :)
I just bought A8W and its great, loading station speed is based on yout wifi mine loads in seconds , so its not the radio that makes it slow, takes a bit og getting used to the menus
That buffering up of internet radios seems to take F-O-R-E-V-E-R on that little unit. Lack of a headphone jack is also a shame. On the other hand, not a bad little unit. However, for the nearly $120 for that thing, get the Ocean Digital one which is about $80, plus it has headphone jack as well as a proper antenna. I think that is the better unit.
So, I've been enjoying your videos for a while and realized I don't know your name... Shall we call you Mr. Recordology? :)
The A8W can use USB type C headphones
No good lots of network errors.