Grace Digital GDI-IRD4500m High Performance Stereo Internet Radio - Black Review

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(More customer reviews)I have had My Grace Bravado-X (GDI-IRD4500M) just a couple of weeks now and I am not sure how I lived without it. I have listened to great music I am sure I would have never heard before. The sound is good for a table sized radio but I wanted better and so I ordered and installed Carver TS-241S Home Theater Speakers - Pair. These speakers more than doubled the sound quality! The internal speakers are fine for voice and music but I wanted to fill the whole house with music. Thanks to Grace, hook up was easy with plain old fashioned speaker wire. The radio is in the kitchen and I wanted to be able to turn up the volume enough so I could still hear the radio easily over the usual kitchen noise. The Grace class D 16-Watt digital amplifier really cranks up these external speakers. I am using a NETGEAR RangeMax Wireless-N300 Gigabit Router with USB WNR3500L and all works fine. You only have to know your router network code and the radio supplied all the other information needed to set up. I had my radio playing in 10 minutes! Also the enclosed user guide is better than you usually get these days. It covers most everything you will need to know. Adding stations that you find and want to keep is easy at [...]. Add your station to your list (after you set up your free account) and by the time you walk into the other room it will already be on your radio. Really cool!
Constuction is very good and the unit is very impressive looking on display. There is nothing on this radio that looks or feels cheap. The remote is just like your TV remote only smaller. When the unit is off the display clearly shows the time, day, month and year. The display can be easliy read in day light or a dark room and is adjustable to your preference. I use reading glasses for almost everything but I do not need them to see the display on this radio which for me is a big plus.
Grace customer service should be something you should really take into consideration when making your purchase decision. After a few days my radio developed a minor problem and I was not sure if it was my fault or not being that this is my first internet radio. I emailed customer service at the Grace website and received very quick responses. You can also call them but I prefer email so I did not. Every thing worked out and I am giving Grace customer service *5* STARS. Grace seems to really care that you are happy with your purchase.
I read every reveiw I could find on ALL internet radios and this one kept coming up as my favorite selection. As you can see by the above I think you will find that this radio will be above your expectations as it was with me. I did purchase a SquareTrade 3-Year Electronics Warranty ($) just in case. There is clear plastic to protect the front of radio during shipping that you should remove. I could not get a hold of the corner to peel off. I finally stuck a small piece of tape on one corner and it lifted right off. The problem is the front of the radio is recessed which makes it difficult to remove.

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Grace Digital GDI-IRA500 Wireless Internet Radio Adapter Featuring Pandora, NPR and SIRIUS Review

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(More customer reviews)The Grace Solo internet radio does a great job connecting the world of internet radio to my home stereo.
The Solo is good looking and connects simply out of the box. Plug in the power, connect the standard rca cable to your stereo, turn it on, choose your home network and within 5 minutes you are listening to Pandora or one of the 17,000 radio stations. While Grace has many models of standalone table top radios, I like the Solo because it connects directly to my home stereo (or even powered speakers). The solo even has a headset jack.
When you first take the Solo out of the box, you see the Solo internet radio tuner, a power cable, manual, remote and rca cable to connect to your stereo. It uses WiFi to access the internet. Make sure you have Wi-Fi in your home, and that it is strong in the area you put the solo. The Solo does have a built in Wi-Fi signal meter to see how strong your Wi-Fi is. So if you put it on the bottom shelf of your stereo system and notice a weak signal you may want to put it on a middle or top shelf. The Solo works with any 802.11b,g or n router and has a built in 802.11g receiver.
After you connect to your wireless network (you will need your wireless WEP or WPA password to do this) and set the time zone on the clock, the Solo remembers everything (including station presets) when you unplug it. That is nice because no one wants to type their wireless password in more than once.
Once you are set up you can start searching for stations by genre or location or type the call sign of the station directly into the radio. You can do this via the remote control or directly on the unit itself. I like Pandora. In order to listen to Pandora you have to register your radio at Grace's web site [...] . After you create a Grace account you enter in your Pandora user name and password on the Grace site and the radio is linked to your Pandora stations. Within a minute your Pandora stations are on the Grace radio in the `personal radio' folder. Pretty cool. You can create stations on the Grace Solo, although I prefer to do that on the Pandora web site. Grace plays SIRIUS and Live365 as well but I do not have SIRIUS or Live365 VIP accounts so I can't comment on that.

I really love the Grace unit. I get all my local radio stations #my FM reception is bad at my house but my favorite FM stations - most do these days - broadcast over the internet .. so I get those, Pandora, NPR and I even started listening to the BBC 4 which is kind of cool#.
Obviously I give this a 5 star. The only negative I would say is that on a few random stations they do not show the song metadata (they all show the station metadata). I'm not sure if that is because the station is not sending it or what. You get the station and song metadata for Pandora which is the most important for me. Oh - you can even thumbs up or down Pandora songs .. very of cool.

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Convenient Access to Online Music in Your Home AM and FM radio stations all over the world stream their audio content over the Internet. Grace Digital Audio's "Solo" product line of Wi-Fi Receiver and Media Streamers allow you link this massive amount of free content, as well as a variety of pay Internet radio services, conveniently and efficiently to your stereo or home entertainment system. Setup is simple, all you need is access to a broadband Internet connection and a wireless router. Acting like any wireless device, once configured to the Wi-Fi signal(s) available and its security, if any, the Solo Wi-Fi Receiver provides quick access to literally thousand of Internet radio stations and podcasts from your home stereo without having to fire up a computer. In addition, users can listen to the hottest premium online music services like Pandora, Live365 and Sirius*. Easy access to thousands of free and premium Internet radio content streams without using a computer. View larger.

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