Product Reviews

Happy with this, but it could have a dimmable screen to read the time at night

the radio is very good and the sound excellent for its size. However, I am using it as a clock radio and would like two additional features - 1) tone able to turn off the display and 2) asleep button to start the radio and switch it off after one hour with a single press. To avoid lighting up the whole bedroom whenever I operate the radio I have covered the display with several layers of thin paper and cardboard, which allows me to see which menu line is selected but nothing else.

Pre-set buttons are too sensitive to touch. Even a light touch to select can cause the assigned station to change. Hughley annoying.

Is an good quality and sound and pleased with that, however a little difficult in pre setting radio station.

Bought this radio from Amazon about 6 weeks ago. It has a nice sound but has no tone control, so get what you get. The print legends are an off white colour and difficult to see in poor light conditions. The volume control is a bit weird and you are not able to set a volume when its off so when you switch on it could be at max or min. The control is a recessed dial and can be awkward to use with finesse. there is no blue-tooth, limited number of pre-sets, if that's a requirement. Its a bit bulky and has large depth, this is , I suspect, too house the 2 speakers. I am satisfied with the radio and I am not disappointed in my purchase.

Great sound and beautiful shape! Like it very much.

Provides good quality souind, especially speech, and a good volume for its size. Easy to use.

I bought this a month ago and I am very pleased with it

I bought this in December 2020 after reading numerous reviews & am delighted with the purchase. An excellent radio.

I have bought two of these radios in the last two months.one for the kitchen and one for the bathroom. The sound quality is excellent and the DAB receiver works rally well despite the fact that we live in an old mill building. This product is well worth the slight extra cost.

Bought this for a half term break before lockdown to use on holiday in Cornwall. Poor wifi and Reception for my tablet. So I could listen to my favourite radio stations on holiday. Easy to set up the stations and to use the pre-set buttons.

Very happy with radio. Good quality of sound. Easy to use.

I brought this a few months ago, the display suddenly went blank. No human support from Sony just automated replies and links on how to replace the batteries etc. Overpriced.

Had for 1 month. Easy set up & easy to use. Sound quality great for size. DAB & FM reception excellent. Neat shape & size.

Brilliant product and so easy to use and set up. Highly recommend.

I bought my Sony Portable Radio about 3 weeks ago. I am amazed by the quality of sound and how easy it is to operate.I am a very satisfied customer.

This item was purchased to replace a 20-year old Sony portable which had "died". Although slightly bulkier than its predecessor this radio is a worthy replacement. Tuning frequencies (DAB & FM) and storing to the pre-set buttons is intuitive to those familiar with the process. If not, the enclosed instructions covering the tuning/storing procedure are clear and easy to follow. Sound quality of both speech and sound is excellent for such a small speaker. I've always found Sony products to be slightly more expensive than their competitors but have been happy to pay this premium for quality and durability. I note that this radio was manufactured in China so I hope that the build quality lives up to its predecessor.

Bought as our first DAB radio, it was easy to set up and delivers high quality sound from such a small unit.

Clear and deep sound on Radio 4 and Radio 3, although lacking a bit of punchiness, but for the price a paid £69 was a good purchase.

Just bought today. Was not looking forward to setting it up as I am not very good with new technology. Was very simple and quick.

My only quibble is to wonder whether the product could be physically somewhat smaller.

Looks good and the sound is very dynamic and its very easy to tune.

I am delighted with the radio. I enjoy seeing the title of the music played on ClassicFM on the screen. It is very simple to adjust the volume and change the preset channels.

only bought 2days ago but up to now highly delighted

I have had my Sony DAB?FM radio for about 2 weeks and I am very pleased with it. it was vey easy to set up for DAB and FM and the sound is really very good. This is a very good quality product and I highly recommend it.

This radio has good looks, good quality and is easy to programme.

VERY EASY TO SET UP AND WOULD BE EVEN BETTER HAD IT HAD WI FI AS WELL

The good bits - the design and appearance, is better than any other DAB radio I have seen. I have it in white and it looks like a classic with the silver power button and tuning knob bezel. It is very easy to use and changing channels on the same ensemble / multiplex is instantaneous. For other channels it takes a couple of seconds. You save a channel simply by pressing an holding on a preset button - couldn't be simpler. I have been running on rechargable AAs and it works really well. It seems to pick up a 100% signal with local stations and with the aerial up picks up the rest perfectly too. The bad things: the headphone jack doesn't output a useable line-level signal. It perhaps tuned for high impedance headphones and my hifi can only get anything out of it with the volume up very high. The socket is also extremely tight, it seems to be rather low quality on what is otherwise a high build quality item. The sound quality is surprisingly poor and not very loud given the size of the radio, the speaker is only 8 cm wide. My Sony SRS-BTM8 speakers the same size are louder and have better sound quality. It is not really loud enough to fill a toom - it is really a personal radio you carry to where you are, and listen from 1 to 2 metres away.

Very satisfied with my recent purchase - Sony DAB portable radio.

This is a well-designed, good looking radio with good features and mostly good sound for music and the spoken word. The instruction booklet is clear and the radio is soon working. It is easy to tune to DAB and FM and to assign favourite stations to the five preset buttons. The back light display is large and easy to read and you can set sleep and wake-up timers. It runs on four AA batteries, which are readily available, or on the mains. Why not five stars? Sometimes the sound is ‘boomy’ and the radio lacks a treble/base equaliser to mitigate this effect. It also comes with a continental AC adaptor. There is no mention of this in the advertising and you only discover this when you open the box. You have to buy an adaptor to use it on the mains. A radio sold in the UK, by a company with Sony's reputation, should have a UK mains plug. It does not and that is very poor decision by Sony.

Superb radio. Excellent, high quality sound and great build quality. The radio is light and easily portable. The LCD display information is very clear and with the rubber feet the radio feels very secure on flat / glossy surfaces. The setup was simple, as soon as you power it on for the first time it auto tunes the DAB stations for you. It even found stations I had previously been unable to receive clearly due to my location on a PURE Oasis radio. The 5 preset stations are easy to set up too. You can power it either by the mains adapter or by 4 x AA batteries. The wake-up timer and sleep timer are great extra features too! I'm very happy with its performance.