I bought this to replace my bedside clock radio. For some reason, we have an issue with receiving good radio signals in our bedroom, and I was getting tired of waking up to static. This radio totally blew us away ... my husband is getting rid of his as well, and we are just going to use this one! We are on the 2nd floor of my house, with the wireless router in the basement (2 floors down). I had a few issues the first night with dropping the connection, but once I rebooted the Airport Extreme, it has worked fine ever since - I had a friend who told me he thinks it is a [...]problem, since he's had the same issue every time he adds something new to his network ...
One thing the other reviews didn't mention - you don't have to set the time! Just your time zone - it syncs time from the internet! And if you lose power, it reconnects when everything comes back up and downloads all your settings from your [...] account!
I love the preset buttons - although my husband wishes there were more. I like being able to stream NPR from both my home area of Denver and Colorado Springs - if one is begging for money I switch over to the other (I am a member). I loved the way I could just go to local stations, and there they were! I can also type in the call letters of my favorite stations and it finds it right away.
I like the way I can turn down the intensity on the screen - my husband was putting a book in front of his because it was so bright. And I love the sounds for the alarms - and that I can program them to go Monday to Friday! No more being woken up at 6:00am on Saturday because I forgot to turn off the alarm! And I like being able to program it from the website - a lot easier than dealing with the little buttons and the little screen on the radio!
I haven't even installed the software so I can stream my iTunes library - I keep listening to Pandora instead.
This purchase has opened our eyes to a whole new way to stream internet radio. We've listened to Radio Paradise for years - which is internet only. My husband listens to internet radio all the time on his laptop - now he wants one of these for his home office so it doesn't tie up the resources on his computer. And we want one for our main stereo - looks like we'll be adding a Squeezebox Duet and probably a boom box at some point - maybe for Christmas ...Get more detail about Logitech Squeezebox Radio.
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