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Still listening to your 1980's era clock radio? Time to upgrade! The Sangean AM/FM/Bluetooth Digital Tabletop Radio offers a huge improvement in sound and a lot of smart radio smarts too. Key tech is support for RBDS/RDS, radio broadcast data system, which offers automatic time sync along with display of station name, genre, and track information for FM channels. A sophisticated remote control makes working with the unit a breeze, and a two-AA battery backup ensures your clock never flashes "12:00" after a power outage too.
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Now this is something for your kitchen or bedside table
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Let's check it out. Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out this really pretty sweet
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This is the Sanjean AM FM Bluetooth digital tabletop radio model, RCR 40
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And basically what they've done is they've said, you know, people have
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little AM FM clock radios on their bedside table or in their kitchen or
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something, let's do something like that, but let's actually give it really good
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sound and it does digital. So it works with Bluetooth and it also works with what's known as
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the radio data system or RDS. So that gives you all sorts of really cool features
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One of which is that if you tune to an RDS station and listen to it for a
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couple of seconds, it will resynchronize your clock to make sure it's at the
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correct time. Super great secret superpower. Now, let me tell you, it's powered by dual 3.5 watt speakers
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In fact, we can pop the grill off and you can see the speakers there
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Although obviously it looks better with the grill on. So let's put this back
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And it has FM RBDS or RDS, depending on what area of the world you're in, but
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it's radio broadcast data system. And when you're listening to FM stations, it'll tell you the name of the song
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It'll tell you the name of the station. It'll tell you what genre
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So some RDS radios, you can say, just find jazz music. So that's really great with cars
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When you're on a long road trip, you can say, get to the next talk radio or get to
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the next country music or whatever it is you prefer. Now that, like I said, the RDS lets you auto calibrate the clock and they have
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some really interesting stuff inside, hidden inside that helps you get better reception
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So this gets really solid AM and FM reception through use of a ferrite rod
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inside for AM and a pigtail antenna, which is what this is for FM
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And you can see, I haven't even unwound it to just let it spread out for best
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possible results. And it still gets really solid FM reception. And I live in an area where it's not so easy to get good radio stations
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So Bluetooth 5.0 NFC. If you have an NFC capable phone, you can just put it here and that will let it
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automatically pair. Super easy to work with. It has AUX in, it has 3.5 millimeter in and out
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So you can use it with headphones if you want. Dual USB charging ports, 10 station presets, 5 AM, 5 FM
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And if you use the included remote control and check that out, look how many
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buttons are on that remote. It's a pretty complicated remote. But if you use this, you can actually access 18 presets
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And I will say the remote makes it a lot easier for some of the more subtle
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settings when you're doing things like trying to, if you want to adjust the time
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yourself rather than use RDS, the remote makes it a lot easier to work with
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One thing I really like is it does have that big, bright display
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So it's really pretty darn easy to work with. So what I want to do is first off, let's do a tour of all of the different surfaces
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So you can see starting on the top, you can see there's a big dial and that's a
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volume control, but if you push it, you can also use it for tuning AM or FM stations
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And then there's a bunch of buttons starting with power and source, and there
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are two different alarms. So you can actually have for two different people in the household
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There's a button that lets you get to all of the settings and information
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And then there are presets. Now the presets also give you additional controls depending on what mode you're
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in, but you can see there's five presets here. And if you're an AM, those are 5 AM stations you program, super easy to
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program, push and hold. And after a couple of seconds, it'll go beep, beep, and then you'll be set
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And that'll be a remembered station. And then finally, the button in the front is the snooze and dimmer button
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And it also has a light sensor. So the display does get dimmer when it's darker
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I've found that in my bedroom late at night, it's a little bit bright
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That's something I hope that they'll fix in the next iteration of this system
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But for now, it's not so bright that I have to cover it up, but you might find
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that you're adjusting the dimmer control, which is why it's so easy to adjust
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Now let's move to the back. On the back, you can see that there's the FM antenna and there's the plug for power
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And then there's the headphone jack and the AUX in. That's pretty much everything
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And then in that little battery compartment, you can put in two AA
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batteries and that gives you a clock backup. So if you lose power, this is such a classic thing
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You lose power for a couple of seconds and then the power comes back on and
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your clock is flashing 12, 12, 12, 12. That's really annoying. So drop in a couple of AA's and you'll be immune from that for a couple of years
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It's a really simple thing. When you are without power, the display is not on
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It doesn't mean it's a fully functional radio. It needs power. But when you get power back, then it does actually remember what the time was
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So that's actually pretty easy to work with. Now, what you really want, I know, is you want to hear it
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So let's turn it on. And so what we're hearing here, this is FM and I'll turn the volume up
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And you can hear there's a lot of bass. Unfortunately, we're not getting music
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So I'll hit one of my other FM presets. Another one. There we go
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So I don't really have the rights to this music, so I can't let you listen to too
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much of it, but you can hear that it's a really good sound. So I can't let you listen to too much of it, but you can hear it's a big, bright sound
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There's a lot of bass. It actually has really nice sound for a device of this nature
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And on the front, let me zoom in. You can see it's RDS
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So RDS again, is that radio data system and turn it off for a second
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So that's radio data system. So that's why it's showing information. Let me turn it on again and we'll turn the volume way down
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So what you'll see is it will show you the name of the station
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It might show you the name of the track. It might show you the name, you know, the, the genre of the music, all these
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different things. RDS is a protocol and different stations implement it differently
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So I really think it's pretty cool when you can look at your radio and it'll show
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you the song that's playing way easier than using Shazam on your phone or something
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So there's that. Now let me turn the volume back up and let's go to AM
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Let's see where we are with AM. I have an AM, I should have an AM preset
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There we go. And this is talk radio, which pretty much like 99% of AM radio now is talk, but
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easy enough to work with. And now let's go to Bluetooth. That's our third choice
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And what will happen is it'll reconnect with my phone and then it should
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actually, I guess it didn't start playing, but that's okay. Cause I'm one button tap away
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And now let's play with the volume again. Cause this one, I do have the rights to, so my phone's all the way up
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And that's pretty damn loud, actually. So if that ain't loud enough for you, I kind of wonder how big your bedroom is or
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how big your kitchen is, but really nice sound. And while we're doing this, I can then go and I can adjust, for example, I can say
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that's a bit too much bass. And let's turn the treble down so we get a lot of mid range
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You can also turn on and off loudness and let's hear how that sounds different
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So that's with it off. And it definitely makes a difference. Loudness generally gives you more of that bass volume, which a lot of people like
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And then finally, the fourth option for source is that AUX input, but I don't
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have anything plugged in, so that's a no. That AUX input, but I don't have anything plugged in, so that's about that
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So let's go back to Bluetooth and I want to show you one more thing is that it
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should go right back to the music. Let's see. Um, it didn't, but that's okay
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Cause I have these buttons so I can do things like pause, play, and
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I can go to the next track. That's about it. It's about as easy as it gets
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Let's go ahead and pause this music. I talk a little bit with less competition
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So in terms of its size, it is pretty hefty. It's a really beautiful design
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It's this dark walnut finish and it is 11 inches by 4.3 inches by 7.1 inches
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And it's 3.9 pounds. It's not particularly heavy, but it's definitely something that you're
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going to put on the bedside table or on your chest of drawers or in your
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kitchen in that perfect spot for some music or something, and then you're
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not going to really mess with it. And then you might use the remote control or you might just turn it on and turn
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it off to your favorite FM or AM station. If you're an NPR fanatic or something, then you can have this set up ready to
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go for NPR, super easy to work with. So only thing we need to talk about the price and it's a really nice price
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Cool. This, even hold it this way. This is the Sanjeev AM FM, Bluetooth digital tabletop radio
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And it's 199.99 currently discounted on Amazon, way down to 109.40 at amazon.com
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for a hundred bucks, this is a great way to upgrade the quality of your sound in
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your bedroom, in the guest room, in your kitchen, in your utility room, you could
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put this on your office desk. It'll look perfectly great. Even if you're an exec, this is going to look fine as an executive device or
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something really nice. Sound gets plenty loud, depending on the input source you're using
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I find all of the tuning super easy to work with. I've already got a pre-programmed for the relatively small number of FM
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stations we have here in Boulder, Colorado, but it's ready to go
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So this is going into my bedroom and it's going to replace an older clock radio
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And even just to call this a clock radio, it feels kind of old school. It's like we're sort of diminishing just how sophisticated it is
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So that's everything. Definitely one to check out. That's all I got
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So I'll catch you in my next video
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