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Lord Byron
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« on: 14:30:15, 27-08-2008 »
do  i just go to john lewis and buy the most expensive ?
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« Reply #1 on: 15:04:48, 27-08-2008 »
Depends what you want it to do. For use in the bathroom and/or garden, you could do much worse than one of these:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Freeplay-Eyemax-Radio-Integrated-Flashlight/dp/B000G73ZL8

Might be a bit bulky for camping though.
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« Reply #2 on: 15:08:41, 27-08-2008 »
I have one, is very good, mine came in tough rubber plastic casing thingy.

good for hiking, what about at home ?

http://www.johnlewis.com/230454498/Product.aspx

is it 'all about the speakers' ?
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« Reply #3 on: 15:20:40, 27-08-2008 »
Quote from: Lord Byron on 14:30:15, 27-08-2008
do  i just go to john lewis and buy the most expensive ?
I'd go for a Roberts or a Pure myself.  Beyond that I'd just look at what functionality is offered/you're prepared to pay for/you can be bothered to figure out.  Cheesy
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« Reply #4 on: 15:22:34, 27-08-2008 »
Quote from: Lord Byron on 15:08:41, 27-08-2008
http://www.johnlewis.com/230454498/Product.aspx
OK.. forget the "you're prepared to pay for" bit...  Shocked Shocked
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« Reply #5 on: 15:26:13, 27-08-2008 »
roberts and sony are good but i am thinking 'big christmas present' for my girlfriend,who is addicted to radio 4
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« Reply #6 on: 15:32:25, 27-08-2008 »
Quote from: Lord Byron on 15:26:13, 27-08-2008
roberts and sony are good but i am thinking 'big christmas present' for my girlfriend,who is addicted to radio 4
That's a very sweet idea, although my other half has a smallish Pure digital radio that probably cost £150ish, on which he listens to radio 4 endlessly to his heart's content and it's not bad on the speaker front either - I can hear it from other rooms exactly when I don't want to  Grin  I'm not sure just how good something costing £1500 could possibly be to justify the expense! 

Ah, it's a ferrari one... I see... Smiley They do make some very pretty stuff.  Even so... £1500?Huh? (that's just meant to be 5 question marks by the way...)
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« Reply #7 on: 15:45:36, 27-08-2008 »
i can listen to 3 when she out and about Wink
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« Reply #8 on: 16:53:17, 27-08-2008 »
No-one has yet mentioned the can of worms which is the whole FM/DAB question. It seems that FM is with us until at least 2020, so I see no reason to accept the BBC/Classic FM line that DAB is best. For high quality music purposes I would stick with FM; or at least a model which has both FM and DAB.

It seems that the drawn-out switch-off of FM is due to the slow adoption of DAB in cars. There are more details at:

http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/dab/fm_switch-off.htm

It also seems that DAB will be replaced by DAB+ over the coming years, so it could be that a DAB radio will be obsolete before an FM one!

All this is very confusing, so I'm going off to listen to R3 on my FM radio, which gets excellent quality sound on a handful of stations (the only ones I want). If you want hundreds of unwanted choices, with reduced quality, go for DAB.
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« Reply #9 on: 17:40:28, 27-08-2008 »
It's not 'all about the speakers'. The ability to pick up a decent signal is quite as important: after all, the best system in the world fed a duff signal can only reproduce that signal in all its duffness.... I'd rule out anything that had no socket for an external aerial.
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