daugen
Epic Contributor
that's an impressive collection of tunes.
funny I was researching the owner's manual on line for a new boombox I bought for the garage.
Figure cd mechanism will work a lot better if I keep unit in house until I want to use it.
I can leave it in the garage during the summer but need to remember to put a towel over it.
haven't bought a boombox in ?? years
this one is a Phillips and has some euro features, like DAB radio.
something must be preventing it from coming to US, something with FCC?
because has a lot more potential than conventional FM apparently:
DAB differs from FM radio in several ways:
I had to go online to read the manual because the tiny fonts on the cheesy origami foldup instructions were unreadable.
found out I did have FM, and where the loudness button was. Unit came with a metal antenna, had to have a radio.
but had to go to a source button first to have it identify itself.
It even has a selector allowing me to choose between
a preset sound effect:
POWERFUL
BALANCE
WARM BRIGHT
and CLEAR
let's see....powerful likely boosts bass, balance possibly boosts a wide range but ?
warm is boosted midrange, bright is boosted treble.
Clear must be off...?
all of this is in addition to that loudness control. 12 watts rms, would love to see a distortion graph of amp.
two way speakers likely unbaffled. They probably have magnets the size of a lifesaver candy.
I was thinking it would be fun to have someone like Popgadget with a real musician's ear or PJ or ?
try to do a blind identify on the tone settings. Was that clear or bright?
bottom line is find the one that doesn't sound tinny, probably the Powerful setting.
first time I played it was unimpressive, time to turbo the woofer.
more importantly is has a USB input and I have a memory stick with 191,000 songs on it.
given to me from places unspecified, other than someone dumped a radio stations digital file years ago.
it's all older stuff, but that's fine.
put that in boombox and hope it can read it. I tried that usb memory stick in an older Ram truck and it locked up, likely a buffer issue.
if it just goes to the next song, seems to work ok. But if put on shuffle then it hung up
funny I was researching the owner's manual on line for a new boombox I bought for the garage.
Figure cd mechanism will work a lot better if I keep unit in house until I want to use it.
I can leave it in the garage during the summer but need to remember to put a towel over it.
haven't bought a boombox in ?? years
this one is a Phillips and has some euro features, like DAB radio.
something must be preventing it from coming to US, something with FCC?
because has a lot more potential than conventional FM apparently:
DAB differs from FM radio in several ways:
- Transmission: DAB uses digital transmission, while FM uses radio waves.
- Range: DAB has a wider range than FM.
- Sound quality: DAB has better sound quality than FM.
- Range: DAB has a wider range than FM.
- Noise: DAB has no noise because it doesn't use radio waves.
- Switching stations: DAB+ radios allow you to easily switch between stations without tuning to specific frequencies.
I had to go online to read the manual because the tiny fonts on the cheesy origami foldup instructions were unreadable.
found out I did have FM, and where the loudness button was. Unit came with a metal antenna, had to have a radio.
but had to go to a source button first to have it identify itself.
It even has a selector allowing me to choose between
a preset sound effect:
POWERFUL
BALANCE
WARM BRIGHT
and CLEAR
let's see....powerful likely boosts bass, balance possibly boosts a wide range but ?
warm is boosted midrange, bright is boosted treble.
Clear must be off...?
all of this is in addition to that loudness control. 12 watts rms, would love to see a distortion graph of amp.
two way speakers likely unbaffled. They probably have magnets the size of a lifesaver candy.
I was thinking it would be fun to have someone like Popgadget with a real musician's ear or PJ or ?
try to do a blind identify on the tone settings. Was that clear or bright?
bottom line is find the one that doesn't sound tinny, probably the Powerful setting.
first time I played it was unimpressive, time to turbo the woofer.
more importantly is has a USB input and I have a memory stick with 191,000 songs on it.
given to me from places unspecified, other than someone dumped a radio stations digital file years ago.
it's all older stuff, but that's fine.
put that in boombox and hope it can read it. I tried that usb memory stick in an older Ram truck and it locked up, likely a buffer issue.
if it just goes to the next song, seems to work ok. But if put on shuffle then it hung up
