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That, by the way, is understatement. This radio sounds great and is very well made. DAB reception is excellent. There is a slot underneath the solar panel at the back making grabbing the radio easy to cart is out to the garden weather permitting. The only ever-so-slightly tricky things is to set the battery switch inside the compartment to NiMh as you install the supplied rechargable batteries. Yes, that is spelt the right way. Setup is instantaneous, so it does help to have the aerial extended before switching on. The user interface is great and shared with other recent DAB radios. Volume on the right knob. Tune with the big dial in front and then push to select. Easy peasy. Switch favourites on and the tuner will click through only them. Very intuitive. Favourites stays on until deselected. Just right. The solar panel is great and charges while the radio is on despite what the book says, although it might be the case that the charging light comes on perhaps to no avail while switched on. Anyway, this British summer is good enough to activate the charger with the radio on a bathroom windowsill. The rechargable batteries are regular AA and are supplied, which is way better that other brands which charge you an arm and a leg for a bespoke pack. The only thing I can think of by way of improvement, well OK two things: stereo and record/rewind.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
Have several Roberts products and think they are well made and great quality. Unfortunately i bought the Solar Dab2 thinking you could run it off the power of the sun same as a £12 solar radio i already have but is not digital. Hence my purchase. You can't!!! You can't run this radio off sun alone. It will charge the rechargeable batteries off the sun if not in use and left out all day or several days to recharge. You need to connect to the main and charge the batteries for 7 hours, it then works excellently. Slightly false advertising i believe.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
Great sound quality,easy to tune in and set up,looks great and the display is large and clear.very impressive radio,fully recommended.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
I’ve had one of these for about 5 years, which has survived showers and being dropped down the stairs a few times! I don’t think I changed the batteries for about 3 years initially- I kept it on a very bright windowsill. Now it’s kept on a much darker windowsill and needs mains charging more often, but that’s to be expected. Perfect for taking out into the garden, or on picnics. The sound quality is lovely for such a small radio-quite a deep and clear sound. You can’t expect it to be able to sound like a bigger, more expensive radio, and the sound does distort very occasionally, but for its size it’s excellent- not tinny at all. Perfect bathroom radio too, this latest one was bought just for that! I LOVE this radio and wouldn’t be without it.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I bought this Roberts solar DAB knowing it to be faulty. On receiving it and removing the rear cover I found a small circuit board had become detached. After replacing with a bit of superglue I had a fully working radio for just twelve pounds. I do like the idea of the Roberts solar DAB radios but I have to say I prefer the original radio to the solar DAB 2. The first model was of a more rugged construction and had better sound, the solar DAB 2 has a more "bassier" sound to it and with no tone controls it can be somewhat annoying when listening to just vocals. One advantage the solar DAB 2 has over the original is the inclusion of FM reception which did come in useful when I took the radio abroad only to find there was no DAB reception. The solar DAB 2 is a fine radio and if you enjoy listening to your radio outside you will never have the cost of replacing batteries, just the odd charge now and again with the mains adaptor, but only gets four stars due to the lacking in sound quality.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes
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