Advantages: Excellent features, good stereo speakers. Includes FM. Disadvantages: Ugly as sin. No proper carry handle. Could use more connectors.
The Hitachi TRK100 gives good sound from its built-in stereo speakers, lacking on many other DAB radios. It's fairly easy to use, and is mains/battery operated. But it is ugly, even more than most DAB radios!
I bought this because I wanted to enjoy more channels than FM could provide, mainly for use with headphones at my work desk. I use a pair of Philips noise-cancelling headphones with it, and the resulting sound is rich and powerful, very satisfying. ... ..."Virgin" sounds ghastly.
The Hitachi has an FM radio included, so you can select the analogue FM channels for those stations you can receive locally, for example most of the BBC stations, and enjoy significantly better sound quality on Radio 1. It's good to have the option. However it's only a basic FM tuner, no RDS channel identification or features are included, but there are 10 preset channels.
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So, having read the above ...
colin99 05.03.2006
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This product suffered a complete failure after only 18 months of use. I am now left with waste electronic equipment to dispose of. There are no obvious damged components, nor anything obvious to replace. ...
hicksy2 17.09.2007 (12.09.2007)
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