I found one of the YB400PEs still on clearance at $129.97 at a nearby radio
Shack yesterday. I bought it, and then went to a nearby parking lot to test
it against my Degen DE1103 and my SRIII. If it had held its own against the
1103, then I was going to keep it.

Sorry Grundig. The YB400 did well, but the 1103 did better. Any station that
the YB400 received, so did the 1103. But there were two stations on AM and
two on FM that the 1103 heard faintly but the YB400 did not. I had my SRIII
there mainly as a reference. There was an AM transmitter a mile away, and it
seemed to bother the SRIII much more than it did the other two. It even
prevented the SRIII from getting a couple of the stations that both of the
smaller radios heard.

I like a lot of the features of the YB400. It seemed to have a lower noise
floor than the 1103. And the Grundig's button layout and volume knob is much
better than the layout of the 1103. I really liked the YB400. And I strongly
considered keeping it anyway. But then I remembered how the radio's lack of
a tuning knob was one of the reasons I sold an earlier version a few years
ago. Still, I can see why people have loved the YB400 so much over the past
ten years. It's a very nice radio.

But maybe it's time to move on. I truly think Degen has raised the bar with
its 1103. I now consider Degen and Tecsun to be superior to the former Big 3
(Sony, Grundig & Sangean). And the next radio I buy will probably be the
Degen 1105.