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54 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Reception and Big Sound In Spite of Inaccurate Tuning Dial, May 18, 2007
If you're looking for a 45-dollar radio with no frills, the best AM available, very strong FM, big sound and you don't care about looks or big size, accurate tuning dial, no clock or MP3 output, you've found your radio in the RCA High-Performance Super Radio. I keep mine in the garage and it booms big enough to hear when I'm washing the car. The AM is great. About the biggest headache is getting used to the tuning dial, which is less accurate than any radio I've owned. But it's still easy to use. To get a high-performance radio with digital tuning, presets, similar big sound, and accurate read-out, you'd have to dish out 125 dollars or so for the Kaito 2100. So depending on your budget and needs, the RCA may be the best radio available.
If you're looking for a replacement for the now discontinued Super Radio, you might want to check out the even better Sangean PR-D5, featuring a 200mm internal ferrite antenna, the biggest one available.
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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superadio is Indeed Super, April 13, 2007
This is a copy of a review that I posted on another listing on this site... Check around, prices vary over time between different vendors on Amazon.
How is it super? Let me count the ways:
Super Big...About 13x9x4 inches this is a large radio that has room for a large speaker for decent bass, and also a small "tweeter " for enhanced treble.
Super Heavy...Nearly 7 pounds with batteries, and installing batteries does seem to improve the sound quality.
Super Sensitive AM reception...At night, it is sometimes difficult to tell if a station is 1000 miles away or only 10!
Super Easy to Operate... No complicated digital stuff, just basic tuning, volume, tone controls, and a few switches.
Super Sound...Has separate Bass and Treble tone controls, to contour the sound to your taste.
Super Plain Looking...Very basic and functional design, not an eye-catcher. For "fancy" see my review of the Sangean PR D2V or Q radio.
Super Economical Operation...This radio will run *almost forever* on 6 D cells, and has a built-in power cord for AC operation, (you don't have to buy an extra wall wart supply).
Super Good Deal... I know of no AM/FM portable radio that offers this kind of performance at such low cost!
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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Best sound; Indifferent quality; bad ergonomics, November 29, 2007
As a professional broadcaster for many years, I LIKE radios a lot. I've lived with my Superadio for about 10 years.
THE BAD: the ergonomics of the unit, the "human engineering", is pretty awful. The rotating pots for volume and tone are often sticky and gritty right out of the box. The plastic toggles for band, AFC, narrow/wide AM, are as cheap and cheesy as can be made and still function most of the time. The big tuner knob is pretty good, though. I don't get much drift once I set a station. The calibration of the dial is comically inaccurate, however, so the frequency markings are pretty much just a rough guide.
The form factor is another annoyance. Center of gravity is high so the unit tips over easily, and sometimes even adjusting the volume is a two-handed operation -- one to hold the unit and the other to twist the gritty little knob.
Overall build quality is not very high, and many purchased units are defective. Anyone who complains that they can't get decent reception or the sound is bad on their Superadios have defective units. That's the only possible explanation.
THE GOOD: The sound is absolutely glorious. Nothing can touch it in its class, and for twice the money. In addition to the large speaker the unit boasts a small tweeter. Voice or music, it offers the best sound you can get in a portable radio.
Reception is likewise incredibly impressive. Listening to AM at night is a real trip, literally. This is one of the reasons that there is no digital tuning on this model. A dial setup will pull in stations much better than a typical digital tuner will. "Digital" is not always best.
Battery life seems infinite.
BOTTOM LINE: This is the radio for people, and only for those people, who want the best available sound from a table/portable radio. Dontcha all be lookin' for clocks and alarms and doodads on this sweet thing, now. It's ugly, downright fugly, with iffy build and questionable design. But once tuned in, the glory of the sonics will be a reminder of a little money very well spent indeed.
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