On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:28:52 +0000, Bajamatic
wrote:

as the reports are that they are all
great radios? I'd love to hear what you all think about that idea.

For hearing about how products perform, I put them into Amazon, and
look at the customer reviews, and pay attention to the ones yelling
MURDER!

For some products, those folks are lost at sea and asking for table
napkins - or they are dead-on. Very easy to differentiate. When I
looked at those complaining of Grundig quality, they sounded
knowledgeable for some things, and hyper-sensitive about other things.

Amazon doesn't sell my Radio Shack 20-125, but it, too, finds web
sites that offer a spread of reviews where, again, I look at the ones
yelling MURDER! When I encounter one complaining that there was no
tuning knob, I have to wonder. This sucker cost me $40, and I could
easily see that feature missing before I pushed the credit card across
the display case. Others complain of lack of sensitivity (I saw no
evidence of them using anything but the whip). I've already heard
more African stations in a day on my RS20-125 than they will in a
lifetime on theirs - unless they go to Africa like I did. Another
complains of bandwidth - c'mon, it is a consumer radio, not a
communications receiver.

And then there is the class of disgruntled customer who grumbles about
the poor fit of controls made by Chinese sources. They can find these
problems with any product.

Being the type to expand upon this kind of grief, I would suspect from
the from all comments considered that Grundig put a RS 20-125 inside
their magnificent case which, perhaps, suffered some fit and feel
problems (being Chinese made, after all - give me a break! Do they
think they are Swiss Watches?). With a price ratio of 7:1, is that
magnificent case something you need?

At the end of the day, you really need to visit the show room floor,
look at the various models to appreciate how they are going to fit
into your lifestyle - and then take them for a test drive. That is,
put them on a known antenna, at the usual listening time, and listen.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC