GrundiK indeed
Ancient design
Over priced in its category.
Performance is ordinaire and worse on certain bands.
Ergonomics s**ks
Only 40 memories.
Eats 6 AA batteries like water.
Speaker sound is over rated.
Its ugly.

Get the Sony ICF-SW7600GR
The latest design in its class.
The best by far in its price class.
Excellent performance across all bands.
Very good image rejection.
Ergonomics is excellent.
100 Memories
Synch detector.
Good 4 AA battery use.
Its smaller than the YB400.
Speaker sound is treble biased but certainly decent.
(Older listeners may prefer it over the bassy YB400.)
Headphone sound is superb.

"Andrey Savvin" wrote in message
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Hi,
I am going to buy 400PE. How is it good?
Thanks.

Li-Changchun wrote:

Speaker sound is treble biased but certainly decent.
(Older listeners may prefer it over the bassy YB400.)

...and what is this particular bit of advice based on? I would think the HIGH end
the audio spectrum suffers most in aging ears, thus making the lower ranges
preferable.






mike

Amen.

Joe

GrundiK indeed
Ancient design
Over priced in its category.
Performance is ordinaire and worse on certain bands.
Ergonomics s**ks
Only 40 memories.
Eats 6 AA batteries like water.
Speaker sound is over rated.
Its ugly.

Get the Sony ICF-SW7600GR
The latest design in its class.
The best by far in its price class.
Excellent performance across all bands.
Very good image rejection.
Ergonomics is excellent.
100 Memories
Synch detector.
Good 4 AA battery use.
Its smaller than the YB400.
Speaker sound is treble biased but certainly decent.
(Older listeners may prefer it over the bassy YB400.)
Headphone sound is superb.

I have a YB400. I like it. I've had other radios too, and this Grundig
is outstanding. Darren

I second that!

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D. Martin wrote:

I have a YB400. I like it. I've had other radios too, and this Grundig
is outstanding. Darren

I am going to buy 400PE. How is it good?
Thanks.

You shoul read eHAM website. There is good discussion about various
brands, also Grundig YB400:
http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/816

I myself got YB400 almost 2 years ago. Preferred it to Sangean ATS909
based on reviews praising Yacht Boy's very good FM performance, (and
it was little bit cheaper too).

Overall I'm quite satisfied with it - looks nice, is not too big for
travelling, ok battery life and has good sensitivity. At least FM and
SW are definitely better than with my old workhorse - DUX TR 2810
SW/AM/FM receiver
SSB is usable also, only needs sort of responsive finger for
fine-tuning those broadcasts.
One thing I like very much is that those 40 memory slots can be mixed
and matched between any band.

Remarks: I wish an option to turn LCD light continuously on at least
when AC adapter is used.

Having used this radio for some time now I got to a conclusion that it
is really sad not to have a tuning dial on this fine radio receiver.
This is matter of taste of course but by my opinion it is much more
convenient to use dial for surfing trough those MW and SW channels.

So if I have to happen to buy a replacement for my Yacht Boy 400PE
then probably I'm gonna look for a model with the same price,
features, performance and battery life, but only with rotary tuning
knob.

Tr