Digital radios: Compare features & prices

Best Buys
The Which? Best Buy award is given to products with high total test scores that perform consistently well in our rigorous lab tests and excel in all key areas.

Energy Savers
We award the Energy Saver logo to products that our testing shows are very energy efficient, meaning they'll cost you less to run.

Don't Buys
The Which? Don't Buy logo alerts you to the products that performed extremely poorly in one or more key areas of our tests.

Sound quality
The overall verdict from our expert listening tests.

Ease of use
This rating includes our assessments for ease everyday ease of use, using the instruction manual and accessing more complex functions.

Style of radio
All radios listed also include FM, with the exception of some in-car adaptors or 'internet only' models. Radios classed as 'portable' can be used with batteries as well as on the mains power supply, however some may require you to buy a specific type of battery pack for portable use. Some portable models are lighter than others for carrying.

Alarm clock radio functions
Some portable and tabletop radios also include clock radio functionality, with alarm and snooze functions and showing the clock in standby. Use this filter to return all models with these functions.

Battery running time
Number of hours of DAB listening on one set of batteries - or one charge for models with rechargeables - as per our test measurements.

iPod dock
Does the radio have an iPod dock?

3.5mm auxiliary input
Does the radio have a 3.5mm auxiliary input jack for playing music from other devices through the radio's speakers?

Bass/treble control
Does the radio have standard bass and treble controls for adjusting the bass and treble?

Preset button/s
Find radios that have at least one dedicated station preset button. This will not return radios that only allow you to access presets by navigating through menus on the radio's screen.

Price
Typical prices are the most common online price we found and are updated monthly. Retailers you see on the 'Compare Prices' links are from a 3rd party. We cannot guarantee stock availability at these retailers and don't endorse them in any way. We are not responsible for any loss or damage for 3rd party websites and have no control over their content.

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