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Excellent tone for small unit. Great sensitivity in poor signal area. Exceeded my expectations for a bathroom radio doubling as an emergency radio.
The old Grundig is far a better radio then the Sony. There used to be one in the area but that is not the case now. I didn't purchase this radio to trade it in on someone's old refurbished radio. $25 extra to listen to SW.that is if the replacement radio will work as intended. The Sony scanned right over them as if they weren't even there. Getting someone else to fix it is not worth the cost as the total would equal the purchase price.
The cost to me would be the price for mailing the radio in, maybe $25. If not, I will continue to use it as an AM/FM only.In the old days the radio could be brought to a Sony repair station to be fixed. My main interest was to purchase a good shortwave radio.This radio cannot pull in the signal very well at all even after clipping an extension wire onto the antenna.I located an old Grundig YB305 portable digital shortwave radio to compare to the Sony. To compare the sound, I will say the Grundig YB305 is better.
Word of advice, do not throw out the box right away like I did on trash collection day. Appears with the mass produced chinese @#$* products there is no quality control. There is a fuller rich sound for playing the FM music. I read the reviews and then made the purchase.
The Grundig YB305 pulled in every signal and locked on. Sony is okeh, but not great.You would think that if it's a Sony it's gotta be good, but the Sony is a phoney.Currently I am only using the Sony as an AM/FM radio.I looked into warranty work and Sony will replace it with a refurbished one that may have cosmetic damage. Still taking a chance here. You may get a good one or you may get a bad one.
If anyone is considering, the Sony ICF-SW7600GR world band receiver radio, I suggest looking for another portable set. Here's a brand new Sony radio and I am going to have to see if I can get some warranty work to fix the problem. I am now attempting to locate someone who can maybe fix my radio.
I purchased this for my dad and we had to return because out in the sticks he could not get any reception, even the AM was crap compared to his regular stereo, so we exchanged it for C Crane CSW and that got him better reception.(might be because of the twin coil ferrite antenna.). So be weary where you live.
Very good reception. As a Ham radio operator I am very satisfied with the quality of this radio and its capabilities. It only received 3 stars because it generally requires two hands to operate, operation is not intuitive, I find myself constantly going back to instruction manual, and it drains batteries quickly.
The Sony had neither. The Kato has a rechargeable battery using a crank and also came with a power supply. Needless to say Kato stays, Sony goes. I bought this expecting exellent reception. When I bought this I also bought a Kato shortwave at 25% of the cost. The topper though is the Kato has better reception.
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