Bosch PBA100D I-Pod Dock for Power Box Jobsite Radio Review

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(More customer reviews)Thats what i like about Bosch, their products are well thought out. Having purchased the PowerBox and then being able to add an Ipod to it makes sense.
With other radio's i would have had to rig some kind of attachment to get this result.

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Listen to your favorite music on the jobsite with your Power Box while charging your iPod - without cables, plugs or wires. Protected docking case has unique inserts to guard any size iPod from shock and movement. More than just a case - it's also dust and weather resistant. Attaches within Power Box protective roll cage. Dock plugs directly into Power Box's 12-volt auxiliary outlet and 3.5mm input jack. Charge iPod without extra wires or plugs. Installation is easy - simply remove and replace four screws.

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Audiovox Car XMH10A Xpress Home Kit Review

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(More customer reviews)I wanted an XM radio for the longest time. I opted for the Audiovox Xpress RC model with the home dock. It was well worth the extra money I spent on the Xpress and the Home dock. Now I have XM at my disposal in the car and in my home. It's so easy to transfer from the home to the car. I LOVE IT!!!

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The Audiovox Xpress WMH10A home dock offers everything you need to enjoy your Xpress plug-and-play satellite radio through your home stereo speakers. The kit starts with a tabletop docking station that cradles your Xpress at an easy-to-access angle, along with an AC power adapter that powers and charges your Xpress while you listen. The weather-resistant home antenna, meanwhile, comes with a 21-foot cable, so you can install the antenna on an outdoor windowsill to receive the best possible reception. Finally, the kit's RCA audio cables run from the docking station's output to one of the unused inputs on your home stereo receiver. The kit, which is designed exclusively for the Audiovox Xpress, carries a one-year warranty on parts and labor.
What's in the Box Docking station, home antenna with 21-foot cable, AC adapter, RCA audio cables, user's manual.

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Universal iPod iPhone iPad Dock Converter Cable Adapter 30-Pin Female To Stereo 3.5MM Lead Wire Cord Conversion Line Out Zen Microsoft Zune iRiver MP3 Player Droid Android Blackberry Palm Pre Evo Cell Phone Bose Sounddock Review

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(More customer reviews)Sometimes complex problems can have very simple solutions. This product proved to be such a solution for my problem.
I have an earlier model of Bose SoundDock which works only with iPods and does not have an input for an external device. When I needed a small but good quality sound system to go with my DLP projector, my best option seemed like going for another Bose or JBL iPod dock with an external input connection, which seemed like a waste of money. And then I came across this product in Amazon. There were only two reviews for this product at the time, and both were favourable. I took a chance and ordered it.
The product arrived earlier than the expected delivery date, and was in perfect condition. I played the Sound Dock first with the regular iPod connection, and then with this product, and I really couldn't tell the difference! I am quite finicky about the way my audio system sounds, and I tried different types of songs and music, but still no difference! Both sound exactly the same! Now I can use my old Bose SoundDock as the audio system for my projector, and it works with all kinds of AV players.
Overall I am extremely satisfied with this product. It proved to be a very simple and effective solution to a potentially big problem.

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Coby IR825 Compact Wireless Internet Radio System (Black) Review

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(More customer reviews)I'm not as enthusiastic as the first reviewer since I have other radios to compare it to so I'm giving this Coby radio only 3 stars because of the 2 line display and the user interface being so clunky and hard to use although it plays well. I would give it 4 stars if the interface were improved. There are no knobs, just a lot of buttons on the top that are used for going up and down through a confusing array of menus in order to find anything. The buttons tend to stick, are sometimes hard to push and difficult to find in the dark. It would be easier to use after memorizing the menus but since you can't see them you have to keep them in your head and they are hard to follow on the little 2 line display. Coby has another model, the IR850, with a 6 line display that would be better but it costs more. Other radios with 5-6 line displays are much easier to navigate when you can see the whole menu at one time and have a rotary know to scroll through them. This radio could really benefit from a remote control.
I also have 2 other internet radios, an IR808 similar to the Kaito IR-168 and an RCA/AR RIR205 from Audiovox to compare this to. While the RCA uses Vtuner for it's portal and the IR-168 uses IR168's own site this radio uses the Frontier Silicon wifi radio portal but it seems to be based on Vtuner. Frontier Silicon, in the U.K., designed the radio's processor module, wrote it's firmware and also provides the website for radio makers and owners to use. When I first opened the box and got the radio out and plugged it in, it connected to wifi and got a station right away which was a surprise since I had a lot of trouble getting the first 2 other radios to work at all. I did have to update my wifi router from an old 802.11B to a D-Link DI624 G model a while back though which is a big part of why it worked right out of the box.
The radio is smaller than it looks in the photos. They do say it's compact but it's no bigger than a loaf of pound cake. In spite of the light plastic cabinet it's a lot heavier than I expected. The wifi antenna is hot glued inside the top of the cabinet but the rest of it seems well put together. The speakers look small but produce good sound and are quite loud in spite of only a 2 Watt per channel power rating. I also noticed that it was made by Hip Shing Elect. Co., model IR706. They also make Grace radios and others. Coby doesn't really make anything, they buy items from other manufacturers with the Coby name put on them to resell. I also have a Coby HD AM/FM radio which I like but it's actually a Mondo Revo. One potential drawback to this radio design is that everything is done on the Frontier Silicon web site, even storing Favorites. This means the radio won't work at all if their web site is down. The RCA has a similar design that relies on the RCA/AR web site but some others such as the IR-168 have their own built-in web server that you can browse to with your PC and store Favorite stations directly into the radio's memory.
While other radios tend to have an SD memory slot or USB jack for playing your own music files this radio has neither. They claim it can stream audio from a PC using uPnP with Windows Media Player 11 and the manual even shows how to setup WMP 11 to do streaming, something I've never found explained in other manuals. Other radios such as the IR-168 claim they can do streaming using uPnP too but they don't tell how to do it. I was only able to get that to work in Windows 7 though and not in XP Pro. However, most security experts say to never use uPnP at all and to always keep it disabled because it allows hackers access to your files. If you aren't worried about hackers, have Windows 7 or can get XP to stream and have a lot of music, podcasts or audio books on your PC you want to play then this feature would be handy. There is also a way to get iTunes and VLC media player to stream over wifi to the radio but when I tried that my router kept crashing. One advantage this radio has is the ability to receive KFI and other Clear Channel stations that are difficult for internet radios to get. It won't play if you use the radio to go to Region and browse to LA, Calif. then choose the station however. That just produces a Network Error but if you go on the web site and choose the station and add it as a Favorite then it plays but tends to work intermittantly.
This radio would be the best for someone who only listens to a few stations and can store them in the Preset buttons where they are easy to access. It's not really that great for someone who wants to browse the web a lot, they would want a bigger display and easier to use controls like the IR850. The RIR205 and the IR-168 are both easier to use to browse the web for stations than the Coby.
The build-in FM tuner is more sensitive than I expected and even has RDS, a feature normally found in car radios, to show the station's call letters and the title and artist of the song that's playing on the screen, something that's not mentioned in the manual or on the web site. The FM tuner doesn't get HD stations but the radio has a feature listed under Internet Radio called HDi (also not mentioned in the manual) that has a list of HD2 channels from various stations around the USA that are on the internet. It doesn't get all of them however.
Pros
1. Blue & white display is bright and easy to see but only from the front, not the top where the controls are.
2. Has Help built-in but it's hard to read on the little 2 line display.
3. FM radio plays better than expected, is more sensitive than other radios and has a real whip antenna instead of just a piece of wire hanging out the back but it's not HD.
4. Can receive KFI 640AM but sometimes it works and sometimes you get a network error.
5. Faster than the others to connect to the wifi router and tune in stations.
6. Remembers it's internet settings and it's wifi connection when power is off in spite of not having any backup batteries.
7. Besides internet radio and FM there is also an option to play podcasts and streams from a PC.
Cons
1. Display is only 2 lines and hard to see unless you are right in front so you have to put the radio up at eye level but then it's hard to see the buttons on top. It's also too bright at night and there's no way to turn it down but you could use it for a flashlight or nite lite to illuminate the bedroon.
2, Display doesn't scroll so you have to keep pressing Info to see all the data. It doesn't show the song or artist either when playing internet stations.
3. Volume buttons stick and are harder to operate than a knob.
4. Favorites are hard to add, you have to browse through a long list on the web site to find and select each one and you can only add one at a time.
5. Only has 5 Presets for internet and 5 for FM.
6. Built in wifi antenna not as sensitive as some others that are external.
7. No remote.
8. No SD memory slot or USB connection for playing your music files from flash memory or USB thumbdrives.
9. No Ethernet jack, wifi only. A USB jack on the rear is marked Service Port Authorized Use Only and doesn't seem to do anything.
10. Can only play MP3, WMA and RealAudio file types. At least those are the only types listed on the web site when you add a station. Other radios can also play AAC, WAV and AIFF. The Frontier Silicon prototype this radio is based on can play AAC and the new Grace GDI-IRD4000 is claimed to supported: Real Audio, WMA, MP3, AAC, AAC+, FLAC (lossless), WAV (lossless), AU, AIFF, and OGG Vorbis so it probably just needs a firmware update to play additional formats.
11. There was no user forum available for support like other radios have so I created one on Google Groups called Frontier Silicon Based Internet Radios.
I ended up sending it back because I couldn't explain to anyone in the household how to tune in a station on it. To replace it I got a Coby IR850. It also has 2 big stereo speakers with good sound but is much easier to operate and has a remote control. The buttons on top are easier to use and it has a big display that's easy to read. They have a problem with the display backlight LEDs burning out early but they are not hard to replace. Directions for doing that are also on the Frontier Silicon Radio Google Group.

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Coby CX-49 AM/FM Stereo Cassette Player Review

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(More customer reviews)My Sony Walkman finally stopped playing tapes, although the radio still works, after many months of books on tape and radio that gets me through housework, gardening and other chores. But, the only cassette recorder I could find when I went to replace it was this Coby CX-49. Halfway through a book and desperate to keep going, I bought it. The radio never gets in my favorite station without static (the old half-dead Sony is about a billion times clearer) and after owning the Coby for six days, I was sitting still in a chair when suddenly the tape starts distorting - turns out that, despite fresh batteries, one of the spindles has stopped turning. And it never started again. Don't waste your money like I wasted mine. I am now scouring the web for a stash of Sony Walkman cassette players I can buy up and hoard, because Coby is no substitute.

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Coby's CX-49 Personal AM/FM Stereo Cassette Player provides convenient, no-frills, cassette playback, for a price it'd be difficult to complain about. Its lightweight, compact design features a built-in belt clip for portable use. Enjoy auto stop at the tape's end and a fully functional AM/FM tuner.

Stereo Cassette Playback Enjoy all your favorite cassettes at home or on the go, whether you're addicted to books on tape, picking up the latest underground cassette releases, or looking to revisit a box full of dusty mix tapes. The CX-49 features an auto-stop function, so it'll turn off at the end of each cassette rather than sit there wasting batteries.

AM/FM Tuner It's always nice to have options--tune into your favorite radio station when the tape's over with the built-in AM/FM radio tuner.

Belt Clip If you're doing some gardening, cleaning, or anything requiring two hands, just use the built-in belt clip to keep the CX-49 at your side.

Powering Options The CX-49 runs on two AA batteries (not included) for portable use, or you can pick up a 3V adapter to power it from a wall socket.

Headphones and Earbuds Included A pair of lightweight basic headphones are included, along with some earbuds for those who prefer in-ear listening. You can, of course, opt for your own favorites with the standard 3.5-mm output, or even take a line to your stereo's aux input.

What's in the Box Coby CX-49, headphones, and earbuds.

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Audiovox XMCK20AP Xpress-R XM Satellite Radio Receiver and Car Kit Combo Review

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(More customer reviews)Pros -
being able to view five different channels of audio simultaneously30 minute buffer, being able to pause live radio
easy to read screen
several display options, large font, 5 channels, two channels, and normal full screen
easy to use out of the box, also very easy to install in your car
compatible with Altec Lansing speaker system (Altec Lansing XM3120)
Cons -
no color screen
not able to record individual songs
This is the fourth deck that I have owed since I have had XM Radio including the Roady XT, Inno, MyFi and I would have to say that the Audiovox Express R is worth purchasing if you like being able to view five different channels of audio simultaneously, while being able to pause live radio and having multiple ways that you can select to view the screen of the unit. It is very convenient for instance to be able to see two channels, the one that you are currently listening to and the channel that you previously were tuned to. Meaning that jumping back and fourth between two of our favorite channels is very easy because of the jump mode that is located on the dial.
In addition, it is convenient for the knob to be used as a dial as well as being used as a toggle that you can used to scan through all of the channels that XM provides. The screen is wide and easy to see whether it is day or night thanks to the automatic dimming feature that unit provides on the screen as well as for the buttons and the dial.
Some people believe that having a color screen on a satellite radio is imperative for it to be successful, but I really don't see that to be the case. Having owned the Inno for 6 months and using it at home, baseball games and in my car every day it grew annoying waiting for the graphics to load for the channel that you were trying to listen to when one of the songs that you selected as a Tune Select would come up. On this unit there is no waiting for the song to load, instead when you push the knob the song comes up very quickly without any lag time at all.
The Express R is really an impressive good-looking unit. With its glossy black body and its easy to read screen people really take note of it when they get in to my car. It's not too big to carry around, nor it is too small where the buttons would be hard to use when you're riding at 80 MPH down the freeway. The menus are very straightforward and most of the features on this unit can be used without reading the directions. Also, it is compatible with the Altec Lansing speaker unit, the same one that the Roady XT is used for. It really sounds great!

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The XpressR is Audiovox's high end 6-line XM receiver, and the industry's first split-screen, plug-and-play satellite radio receiver. The split screen displays the channel, artist, and song title while you check out what's playing on other channels or view the sports ticker to keep up with your favorite teams.

Split Screen Audiovox's split-screen interface lets you see what's playing on five other channels without changing the current channel.
Universal ConnectorMove between your car, home, and other sound systems with compatible accessories.
Why XM? Enjoy XM's 170 channels from coast to coast, with more than 80,000 hours of entertainment each month. XM offers musical choice, variety, and discovery--worlds beyond your own collection--plus a wide range of news, sports, talk, comedy, kids, and entertainment channels. Hear XM live, or replay what you missed. The XpressR lets you take full advantage with its split screen, up to 30 presets, and customizable data features like stock ticker or sports score display.
30-Minute Replay 30-Minute Replay gives you the opportunity to "hear that again." While you use the XpressR, it keeps a 30-minute buffer so you can pause and replay live programming.
Stock Price Display XM Satellite Radio broadcasts information, such as sports scores, stocks, and other features. XpressR can track up to 20 of your favorite stock symbols, displaying the price and daily movement on the display.
TuneSelect TuneSelect finds your favorite artist or song whenever they're currently being played on any XM channel. XpressR can track up to 20 of your favorite artists or songs and alert you when they're on.
GameSelect GameSelect finds and alerts you as to whenever your favorite sports and teams are being played on any other XM channel. XpressR will store up to 50 GameSelects.
Install in Any Vehicle The XpressR offers several options for integration with your vehicle.
Cassette Adapter (included): Use the cassette adapter if your vehicle's audio system has a built in cassette player.
XM SureConnect (sold separately): You can listen to your XpressR through your car stereo by using XpressR's built-in FM modulator and the XM SureConnect. Simply find an unused FM frequency on the stereo, and set your XpressR to transmit on that same frequency.
FM Direct Adapter (sold separately): The third option is the FM Direct Adapter. Professional installation is recommended if you choose to use this method of install.
Audio input: Some vehicles come with an audio input jack. If your vehicle has this type of input, you can simply use a mini audio cable (sold separately).

What's in the Box XpressR, Car Cradle, Car Power Adapter, Remote Control, XM Car Antenna, Cassette Adapter, Swivel Mount, Vent Mount, Swivel Mount Preparation Kit

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PYLE PLCD16MRWB AM/FM-MPX In-Dash Marine CD/MP3 Player/Weather Band Radio with Full Face Detachable Panel and Wired Remote Review

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(More customer reviews)Shipping was excellent, it arrived early and there were no problems. I installed the unit on a motorcycle and use the romote on the handle bars. Everything works great. I would like to have fade and balance control on the remote also the CD player is a little more sensitive than I would have thought for marine use but works well enough. Overall I give the experince high marks from start to finish. I will use Amazon again.

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