Get the best sound quality and features with our Best Buys. As digital radio is taking off with more stations available, our experts let you know which radios are a cut above the rest.
How annoying. It’s time for your favourite radio show, but somebody’s changed the station, so you waste valuable listening time trying to find the right frequency…
No longer.
Most digital radios allow you to preset your favourite stations so you can swap between them by simply pressing a button. Many of the best radios will have a screen telling you what programme you’re listening to now, and what’s coming next.
On some, you can pause and rewind live programmes, so if the doorbell goes you don’t have to miss the end of the show…
Sounds good, doesn’t it? But there are questions to ask, and features to compare – and that’s where we come in.
At Which? we have reviews of more than 70 digital radios, and 10 of them are Which? Best Buys. So if you’re thinking about going digital, but want to be sure you’re getting a decent radio, you’ve come to the right place. You can access our digital radio reviews – and hundreds of others – when you take a trial.
There are a number of digitalradios out there, butit's quite difficult to knowhow the audio is onone when you're browsing inthe shop and it's not justaudio playback that's important whenchoosing the right digital radio for you.And that's where Witch[sp?]comes in [xx] .co.uk[sp?]you'll find reviews of allthe latest digital radios, froma number of manufactures; we listspecifications and features alongsideour easy to read Star ratingsystem, that helps you identifythe best and the worst performers.
The best performing digital radios areawarded a coveted Best Buy award.and unlike other reviewers, we alsogive out don't buys to the models that you should avoid.And to further ensureour independence, which doesn't haveany the advertising on it's website or in it's magazines.That means that we don'thave to please the manufacturers and we can say what we want.
We have an expert listening panel wholistens to different types oftracks, because you might listento speech on Radio 4,but you might also listento like rock or planet rock, or things like that.So we'll play arange of tracks and get separate ratings for those tracks.If it's an internet radio they'llalso listen to internet tracks, streamed tracks.
So, we can get a rating forhow good it sounds streamed, to how good it sounds with DAB.Well the fact that we've got an expert panel is great.We've got a few people giving their ideas.And ranging in age, you've gotto take into account that youngerpeople can hear higher sounds mucheasier so we kindof get a really good mix ofpeople in and giving theirimpressions on how kind ofhow well the radios are playingthe different frequencies so higher soundsmust be easier for the youngerpeople to hear anyway, butyou can find the a poor quality radio.
It will trail off ofthe top end and the bottomend and kind of gets alittle bit sort of dirty and mushy.On the classical tracks you wantto be able to pick out theinstruments and hear thatkind of cloudy in thingsand also when people arespeaking, you kind ofnotice so thereis a piece that theylisten to from verbal spokenfemale broadcast they aretalking about how to get listeningto a giraffe or something, it's very odd.
But it's a really good wayto hear the difference between agood and a bad radio when theirhissing from when the speechyou hear is perfectly clear, which is what you want you're listening to speech radio.We have member reviews for personal takes on each radio.Each review is links toa live pricing page, helping youfind the cheapest online retailers, when you come to buying your digital radio.
Our product's comparison tool makesit easy to directly compare radiosand find the model with the features you need.Buying a digital radio isn't goingto be the biggest decision you're ever going to make.But reading at Witch just aradio review will at leastensure that you're getting the best value for your money.
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What is a Which? Best Buy?
Our tests are thorough and demanding. When we test digital radios, we even broadcast our own DAB signal to be sure of complete fairness. We test for ease of use, build quality and durability, sound and reception, digital features – and much more, and our standards are high.
When a radio does exceptionally well in our tests and impresses our expert panel, we call it a Which? Best Buy. When you choose a Which? Best Buy you can feel confident that you are buying a superior product.
Why Which?
Product reviews and recommendations are what we do. There are no ads on our site; we're independent, and impartial. We test the products, and pass the results on to you. It’s that simple.
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