Hello all,
I hope I'm posting in the right forum - there's a ton of them and I figured this would fit in general. If not, then apologies in advance and please, mods, move to the correct forum.
So I wanted to buy my mom a good AM radio. She had this 90s-styled boom box that weighed a ton but since we moved, we decided to get rid of it. The reason was because, as mentioned, it was just way too big, and also because the AM reception was so, so bad. I mean out of a scale of 1/10, the reception was literally a 2.
After having briefly searched online, I came up with the Sangean PR-D5. Then I read a review on Amazon about it and the reviewer said if I was an AM listener, that I should go with the Sangean WR-2. So I checked out the WR-2 and the first thing that popped in my mind was that not only did it look great, but it was small, too. Perfect!
My "problem", though, is this: my mom listens to the radio while walking all around the apartment (not a huge apartment - about 1000 sq ft) and I can assume that a desktop radio is meant more for office use and won't really cut it for home use? Or am I completely off on this? I've never owned a desktop radio, so I'm not really sure how loud they are. Even though we used that big, archaic machine for quite some time, it was loud and we felt and heard it throughout our entire home and so we've become use to that. Though I don't expect the same thing out of a table radio, I wonder if it is on the opposite end of the volume spectrum when compared to bigger radios. If so, then I'm open to other recommendations. I'd like to keep the budget at $150 and less, so anything you guys can recommend in that price range would be great.
Thanks
I hope I'm posting in the right forum - there's a ton of them and I figured this would fit in general. If not, then apologies in advance and please, mods, move to the correct forum.
So I wanted to buy my mom a good AM radio. She had this 90s-styled boom box that weighed a ton but since we moved, we decided to get rid of it. The reason was because, as mentioned, it was just way too big, and also because the AM reception was so, so bad. I mean out of a scale of 1/10, the reception was literally a 2.
After having briefly searched online, I came up with the Sangean PR-D5. Then I read a review on Amazon about it and the reviewer said if I was an AM listener, that I should go with the Sangean WR-2. So I checked out the WR-2 and the first thing that popped in my mind was that not only did it look great, but it was small, too. Perfect!
My "problem", though, is this: my mom listens to the radio while walking all around the apartment (not a huge apartment - about 1000 sq ft) and I can assume that a desktop radio is meant more for office use and won't really cut it for home use? Or am I completely off on this? I've never owned a desktop radio, so I'm not really sure how loud they are. Even though we used that big, archaic machine for quite some time, it was loud and we felt and heard it throughout our entire home and so we've become use to that. Though I don't expect the same thing out of a table radio, I wonder if it is on the opposite end of the volume spectrum when compared to bigger radios. If so, then I'm open to other recommendations. I'd like to keep the budget at $150 and less, so anything you guys can recommend in that price range would be great.
Thanks
