John S. wrote:
Best modern portatop: Panasonic RF-B 600

I had always meant to purchase one of these but never did; I've bid on
a few of 'em on eBay about three years back, but I guess in being less
common to come by, nice units can be driven up quite quickly
price-wise. I have one of those Magnavox D2999s, which is similar in
terms of features; the audio on the D2999 is really quite nice.

Panasonic had quite a nice line of shortwave portables back in their
shortwave heyday.