PHILIPS Audio R5505/10 Bluetooth Radio (Wooden Housing, DAB+/FM Radio, 3-Inch Driver, Kitchen Timer, Mains or Battery Operated), Brown/Grey, 20.7 L x 10.6 W x 14.1 H

This radio is quite good the tone is not to bad for a small radio very easy to get set up .

Not easy to use (badly designed for station selection and presets recall) so only ideal if you use 1-3 stations and can set them as presets. Otherwise, it’s a handsome radio with very good sound.The display stays on all the time, but if you press (and hold) the standby button it goes into deep standby and the display is off. You have to press and hold the standby button to wake it up again.No headphone out and not much use as a clock as it’s too bright and forget the advertised kitchen timer feature (too complex to use), but as a simple kitchen radio with good sound for a very reasonable price from a top brand, it’s great.

I bought this radio due to stations leaving DAB and moving onto DAB+. The sounds is full and rich for the size of the radio, I found it easy to use and was working and set up within 10 minutes with three pre sets, and I am not overly techincal! Looks rather nice too for a small radio. Would recommend.

Easy to set up - looks really nice and smart - seems to have a good signal

I paid almost £50 on sale for this to replace an older cheapo brand DAB kitchen radio (without DAB+) which I paid around £15 less for...PROS:- Reputable brand so hopefully the buttons will hold up (the ones on my previous radio eventually went haywire). The build quality looks like a step up anyway.- No apparent problems with the DAB+ reception - great.- Bluetooth (if you have a use for it). Beware though, unless I'm mistaken you can't play the radio through a better set of speakers, it can only receive audio from a phone or other device.- Good looking compact modern design.CONS:- The menu system is a bit of a faff initially (as is the kitchen timer 'feature') but ok once you're all set.- Only 3 buttoned presets. (There are 20 in total, it just involves more precious button presses to scroll through.)- The biggie for me is that I expected a better sound for the price, comparing with my older and much cheaper DAB which wasn't much larger but came with stereo speakers nonetheless, which seems to make a big difference. The mid range here is loud and crisp but isn't wide enough - the highs and lows are noticeably muted, I've found. You can set the DRC to High, Low or Off but to my ear none produce a full rich sound, just less tinny and slightly more base with this enabled, but losing even more high end.I'd say that if you just want it to play low in the background or listen to the news/podcasts etc then it's perfectly fine, but if you like to turn up the volume when your favourite track comes on, even moderately, then you'll probably wish you had a half-decent stereo array instead. If the price was £5-10 lower I'd give it another star.

Cons:It sounds extremely muffled.. It can't reproduce anything above 4 kHz.. a complete absence of high frequencies.It is light as a bag of crisps.buttons are too hard to push.. You need 2 hands to push the buttons. One to old the radio and other to push the buttons.Some other reviewers said the printing on buttons will fade away.. I can confirm that too.Very unintuitive to change the stations.Most importantly, very poor reception.. I have to erect the antenna to get anything at all (DAB and FM) even right beside the windows.Pros:hmmmmmm....hmmmmmm.....hmmm...None.

Pleasing style. Clear sound. Did not find it easy to find stations.

This is well-presented small radio with good finish and excellent audio. Not as expensive as some DAB radios and the controls don't seem very extensive when you first set it up. No colourful scrolling panel of information. You can dim the display panel if you don't like it too bright as a bedside radio and you can set the three presets to your 3 favourite stations quite easily. Then it just sits there doing what it's meant to do. As I use it as a bedside radio I mostly use the Bluetooth setting and stream to it from BBC Sounds on a phone so I can see clearly what's playing and go back to things I've missed. It's very good used like this and I like the fact there's no handle, so you can rest your phone on top of it. I've actually grown to love the radio because it is uncomplicated with great sound - all I wanted.