Top positive review
5.0 out of 5 starsOutstanding
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 October 2016
This radio is brilliant in nearly all respects. It manages to combine superb features with a brilliant design and it sounds every bit as good as it looks.
It does DAB, FM, Internet radio, Spotify Connect and Bluetooth, so it is a very capable radio, and whilst when you look at the majority of internet radios available today, many struggle with the BBC streams and Listen Again, this one plays them all - and then if you want an on-demand programme that isn't available on the wi-fi portal, you can easily use Bluetooth to stream from your smartphone..DAB reception was good and I didn't need to extend the antenna to pick up 29 stations. For those of you with a Spotify premium subscription you can also play your favourite Spotify playlists directly to the radio. It all works ridiculously well. The radio display is a simple yet elegant monochrome LCD type with an adjustable backlight - it works well and actually looks better than some of the colour displays - someone spent some thought designing this radio..
And as a huge bonus, it really is portable thanks to a built in Lithium Ion battery- it takes about six hours to charge up (12 the very first time used) and once charged you will get about 10 hours play or 2-3 days standby out of the unit - if the unit is left on standby ( and it doesn't have to be- there's a small power button on the rear of the receiver) alarms will work without the need for mains... this is brilliant and a lot of the competition would make you shell out extra for an optional battery pack. No need to here.
This radio sounds powerful and almost growls at you a bit - some people might need tweak some of the bass out of the EQ but I actually have set mine up on a compromise that does best for speech but is adequate for my music stations ( blues mainly)
There are niggles: the sleep setting is difficult to find in the menu and it would be great if Goodmans could fix this in the future by allowing a button hold down to navigate to the sleep timer.
The packaging. When I received the box I wondered whether I'd made a mistake - ecerything about the packaging - the box design, the cheap foam packing, suggested that this would be a cheap looking and feeling radio that I'd want to send back...it deserves something a bit more special I think
Once you actually get to the radio though, it oozes quality - the speaker grille, the piano white wood, the small LCD display, the chrome dials and buttons...the beautiful leather strap... it looks good anywhere and deserves to be shown off and at this price it is a real snip - by far the best internet radio available today and I can only thoroughly recommend it.
