🎶 Tune In, Turn Up, and Time Out!
The PHILIPS Audio R5505/10 Bluetooth Radio combines modern technology with classic design. Featuring a DAB+/FM tuner for crystal clear reception, Bluetooth streaming capabilities, and a handy kitchen timer, this compact radio is perfect for any setting. With its stylish wooden housing and user-friendly interface, it’s not just a radio; it’s a lifestyle accessory.
Product Dimensions | 20.66 x 10.6 x 14.06 cm; 860 g |
Batteries | 4 C batteries required. (included) |
Item model number | TAR5505/10 |
Colour | Brown/Grey with Bluetooth |
Compatible Devices | Headphone |
Hardware Interface | Bluetooth |
Material Type | Wood |
Battery Type | Lithium |
Power Source | Corded Electric |
Voltage | 240 Volts (AC) |
Item Weight | 860 g |
D**N
Excellent radio. Great sound and looks good.
Really pleased with this radio. Looks great and easy to use. Display is very clear and easy to see time and radio station. Excellent value for price. Highly recommended.
J**9
Good sound but difficult to use
Not easy to use (badly designed for station selection and presets recall) so only ideal if you use 1-3 stations and can set them as presets. Otherwise, it’s a handsome radio with very good sound.The display stays on all the time, but if you press (and hold) the standby button it goes into deep standby and the display is off. You have to press and hold the standby button to wake it up again.No headphone out and not much use as a clock as it’s too bright and forget the advertised kitchen timer feature (too complex to use), but as a simple kitchen radio with good sound for a very reasonable price from a top brand, it’s great.
S**E
Nice sound
Pleasing style. Clear sound. Did not find it easy to find stations.
L**2
Great radio
Perfect radio, easy to use, great sound . Really happy
A**P
Expected a bit more for the price
I paid almost £50 on sale for this to replace an older cheapo brand DAB kitchen radio (without DAB+) which I paid around £15 less for...PROS:- Reputable brand so hopefully the buttons will hold up (the ones on my previous radio eventually went haywire). The build quality looks like a step up anyway.- No apparent problems with the DAB+ reception - great.- Bluetooth (if you have a use for it). Beware though, unless I'm mistaken you can't play the radio through a better set of speakers, it can only receive audio from a phone or other device.- Good looking compact modern design.CONS:- The menu system is a bit of a faff initially (as is the kitchen timer 'feature') but ok once you're all set.- Only 3 buttoned presets. (There are 20 in total, it just involves more precious button presses to scroll through.)- The biggie for me is that I expected a better sound for the price, comparing with my older and much cheaper DAB which wasn't much larger but came with stereo speakers nonetheless, which seems to make a big difference. The mid range here is loud and crisp but isn't wide enough - the highs and lows are noticeably muted, I've found. You can set the DRC to High, Low or Off but to my ear none produce a full rich sound, just less tinny and slightly more base with this enabled, but losing even more high end.I'd say that if you just want it to play low in the background or listen to the news/podcasts etc then it's perfectly fine, but if you like to turn up the volume when your favourite track comes on, even moderately, then you'll probably wish you had a half-decent stereo array instead. If the price was £5-10 lower I'd give it another star.
M**R
Horrible sound, Weak reception
Cons:It sounds extremely muffled.. It can't reproduce anything above 4 kHz.. a complete absence of high frequencies.It is light as a bag of crisps.buttons are too hard to push.. You need 2 hands to push the buttons. One to old the radio and other to push the buttons.Some other reviewers said the printing on buttons will fade away.. I can confirm that too.Very unintuitive to change the stations.Most importantly, very poor reception.. I have to erect the antenna to get anything at all (DAB and FM) even right beside the windows.Pros:hmmmmmm....hmmmmmm.....hmmm...None.
K**C
Neat little Radio
Easy to set up - looks really nice and smart - seems to have a good signal
C**B
Decent DAB radio
I had to upgrade my old DAB radio as it was not DAB+ and decided to go for this radio. The initial impressions are good. The sound is reasonably good for a mono radio. It takes a bit of time to turn on when first switched on. However, the most annoying thing is that when choosing to see the Dynamic Label Segment in DAB mode it does not remember this setting when you turn off the radio. You basically need to choose it every time you turn on the radio which is a bore.
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