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What gets your ears pumping? Review audio equipment for your car, such as car speakers and car subwoofers. Or you can review in-home equipment like stereo speakers and home theater systems. For personal use, find and review mp3 players and earbuds.

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2 days ago

Review Icon dooman reviewed Paradigm Monitor 9 Speakers in Home Theater Systems:
I have been an audio engineer for over 35 years now. I have dealt with speakers my whole life. I recently purchased Paradigm's Monitor 9 series speakers for my bedroom theatre. Let me just say that they didn't come close to adding up to my expectations.

Here is a quote that Paradigm has put onto their website:

"MONITOR 9 EXCELLED ... A PERPETUAL DELIGHT ... SUPERB ... Paradigm has done it again!" -Mark Fleischmanne-town


My response to this is: My God, I hope they paid that person a lot of money to say that on their website.

Lets just say that Monitor 9's give Paradigm a bad wrap. I was comparing them to my Kef Reference 104ab speakers from 30 years ago, and the Kef's just blew them away in all aspects (clarity, highs, lows, depth...)

My advice to those wishing to purchase some excellent speakers...look at the following companies. If you disagree with me, then it is your own loss. Like I said before, I have been dealing with music for the majority of my life, and have many many friends who have as well, and I all get the same response from these speakers.

Anyways, look at these speaker companies:

Kef, Bose, Bang and Olufsen, Mission, Martin Logan. You may be spending some more money, but it is well worth it in this case.


Thanks for reading!
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17 days ago

Review Icon PoKeChOpS reviewed Kenwood KFC-W3011 Subwoofer in Subwoofers:
I own 2 kenwood subs powered by a halfway decent amp phoenix digital 1200watts, in a 94 Olds Cutdog and for my first sytem i think these subs are a real bang for the bucc if you're looking for quality, ya dig.
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22 days ago

Review Icon LDY reviewed RCA RP7887 AMFM Super Portable Radio in Portable Radios:
The clean stylying and ease of tunning are definately a plus. Other radios I purchased paled in comparison to The RCA SUPERADIO. The sound is full,mellow,and truly compares with much more expensive ones.Also I had forgotten how good AM radio could be. As I said,The RCA Superadio is a real Winner.
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22 days ago

Review Icon AcworthAl reviewed Sangean PR-D5 Portable Radio with Digital Tuning and Rds in Portable Radios:
I currently own a Sony ICF2010, unfortunately in no long works, but when it did, it was wonderful. I also own a 20-year-old GE Super Radio and a Sony SW7600GR, both get very good AM reception, but neither of them compare with the PR-D5. What is astounding to me is that the PR-D5 gets very good AM reception in an office environment. I listen to a lot of AM and in my opinion the PR-D5 is as good as it gets for the price. The FM reception is also very good. The only shortcoming of this radio is the lack of a handle. It weighs a couple of pounds and should have a handle.
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23 days ago

Review Icon hehe2314 reviewed Sony TCWE475 Dual Cassette Player Recorder in Cassette Decks:
need amplifier or whatever other devices in order to have sound come out
so tired of this kind of equipment.

copy function is also bad

this 100$ product is even worse than a 20$ product like sony TCM-150

I am sorry I have to say this.

However the seller's service is the best, 5 star.
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23 days ago

Review Icon Justanothersoul reviewed Sony TCM-150 Cassette Recorder in Cassette Players (Portable):
Is this a stereo for music? No. Is it perfect for listening to Flashman books on tape? YES. Takes a full size headphones and the sound is superb for voice while not bothering your mate two feet away. Two A batteries last for dozens of cassettes. When sound garbles, it's time to replace batteries. Elegantly simple and well engineered.
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23 days ago

Review Icon CarolPogroszewski reviewed Sony ICF38 Portable AMFM Radio in Portable Radios:
I was looking for a small portable radio and came across this one, read the reviews and decided to buy it. I am so glad I did, it's easy to use, has a handle, uses 4 AA batteries, and comes with a plug in case you want to use it that way. It also has great sound for being a small radio. I am very happy with this purchase.
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23 days ago

Review Icon DirtyDon6923 reviewed Sony ICF38 Portable AMFM Radio in Portable Radios:
I own several high quality portable radios, and I'm happy with most of them. For the $25.00 I paid for this on Amazon, this is a total no-brainer. I listen primarily to AM, and it compares favorably to far more expensive radios. Fairly stable tuning for an analogue tuner. Better than my Super Radios, though not as sensitive. That can be an advantage for most users. Simple and basic. Don't over think. Just buy it.
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23 days ago

Review Icon Mr_Dave reviewed RCA RP7887 AMFM Super Portable Radio in Portable Radios:
Apparently they are sending a totally different version of this radio now compared to what was available when many of these reviews were written.
The radio they are sending now (8-2009) is a heavy but cheap piece of black plastic with the lowest quality components possible. The sound is fairly harsh (due to significant amounts of high frequency distortion at ALL volumes) and it breaks up completely into a blast of noise and distortion with the volume is set past 3-4 on FM. It's not the speaker distorting, the problem is the tiny amp rated at 1/4 to 1/3 watt. Those numbers are fairly accurate and based on actual electronic measurements I did with a quality true RMS Volt and watt meter. While being physically large, this heavy radio has less power than some tiny radio's that I have and only 1/10th the power of a decent, 4 watt mp3/clock radio setup. Due to it's size it gets loud enough to use in a typical kitchen or living room setting but it's easily surpassed in reception, sound quality and volume by pretty much any decent quality boombox and most amplified mp3 or computer speakers. The original GE SuperRadio woofer has been replaced with an equal size but lighter and more efficient speaker with a smaller magnet and a lightweight cone.
There is a separate tweeter for clarity but the radio as a whole is easily distorted by even modest volume levels due to the tiny internal amp. Yes, the batteries will last a long, long time because tiny amps don't take much power.
They should replace the amp with a better one or change the design over to AA batteries instead of D cells since it would still run a long time even on AA's and then the radio could then be built at half the size and weight and still sound better.

The AFC button (auto frequency control) has a design flaw in the circuitry that reduces the bass response by 3-4dB when enabled.

The rotary knobs have a large amount of slop in the mechanism even when new and feel like they wont last long.

Good tuner designs can be completely silent between stations but they didn't try much on this one. It has loud noise and distortion between FM stations and the noise is often louder than the stations themselves.
Even a tiny Sandisk $29 Sansa mp3 player that I tested gets more stations and is clearer.

I own an original GE SuperRadio and have realistic expectations so I felt inclined to let people know that this is not the same product. RCA is clearly not trying much with this model since it has no relation to the original GE SuperRadio that it's based on. After reading some reviews talking about the wonderful sound quality I felt obligated to provide more detailed information from an Audio Engineers perspective and let them know that this is not the real deal anymore. I returned it.
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24 days ago

Review Icon Retiredat60 reviewed Sony SRF-59 FMAM Radio Walkman with Sony MDR Headphones in Portable Radios:
I remember back when Walkman radios were the latest greatest many years ago. And, I have an older version Walkman which is still working fine. I purchased this one because I left my older one at a different location. This is a nice little radio -- very light, etc. I prefer the older version -- it is a little smaller and black rather than silver. But, this one is very good for the price and does the trick.
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