Sangean WFR-20 WiFi Internet Radio & Media Player by Sangean
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Digital camera reviews of Sangean WFR-20 WiFi Internet Radio & Media Player
Digital camera Review: Formerly happy, now disgruntled owner
Summary: 1 Stars
I have owned WFR20 for approximately a year and was very happy with set-up and performance.
12/09 I began to have issues and unit no longer connects to Wireless LAN, which was my primary reason for purchase.
Email to customer service has not been acknowledged or addressed.
Digital camera Review: Good Concept to many problems
Summary: 2 Stars
Its an interesting concept and is about 80% ready for release. I found it easy to setup. There are just to many problems such as Internal Error 1104 and Unable to reach sub menu. Many of the stations on the menu do not exist or are not as described, for example English which turns out to be French. I wish that I bought a low end Notebook Computer to access internet radio. The software seems to be a Beta version and the update process doesn't work.Digital camera Review: Good quality and good fun.
Summary: 5 Stars
Owned this radio for about 3 months and am very happy with it. Works great with the home wireless network, even though the wireless router is a fair distance away. Build and sound quality are very good. Can flip between streams from Paris, NY, London, Jamaica, Tokyo while reading the morning paper. It's great -- it's like shortwave for extrememly lazy people. Would recommend.Digital camera Review: Good sound, buggy network connectivity
Summary: 3 Stars
I have owned my Sangean WFR-20 for a little over a month. I appreciate the sound and ease of navigation on the menu wheel and the remote. The speakers sound very good at low, mid and high volumes. The selection of stations is large (though a bit cumbersome to find on the radio itself - I highly recommend registering the radio and using the Reciva portal to identify "My Stations").
My biggest complaint is the unreliability of the connection. My radio is only about 3 feet (through a wall, though) from my router and the radio issues will occur at times when my other devices or computers do not have a problem. The issue is that the radio will disconnect and go back to "Initializing Network" status. Once the connection is resolved, it goes right back to the menu and sits on the "Stations" menu item. The backlight doesn't go off and the radio doesn't play. This is highly annoying for me as I use the radio to assist in sleep. It is too frequent that the lack of sound wakes me and I find myself messing with my radio in the middle of the night. I have downloaded firmware updates, but the issue remains. I have searched for solutions but the only reliable solution is to "unplug, plug back in, try again." I am hoping that future firmware updates can identify better network connection testing, redundancy or quick reconnect and "resume" functionality to go back to the station that was playing before. I haven't tried moving my router and trying a wired connection (after all, this is a wireless internet radio!).
The other minor annoyance is that one cannot see the time when a station is playing. I know what station I selected, so don't need it to be what is displayed the entire time the radio is on. Since it has a nice clock feature, I would rather see the time displayed unless I am using the menu. And given the fact I have to unplug the radio several times a week, it would be ideal if the radio could just connect to the internet to identify the real date/time and use a saved "Time Zone" setting to auto-set the clock. As it is, I have to manually reset the date and time each time.
Other than these issues, the radio is solid, good-looking, great-sounding and a decent value. I do think that the Squeezebox Boom (though pricier) is a better overall internet radio. Plus, it has an easier interface to control from your desk/laptop. The Sangean can be controlled remotely, but it isn't elegant.
Digital camera Review: Great Radio
Summary: 5 Stars
The sound quality is great!
Customer support from SANGEAN is great.
Works as promised.
Big sound in a little package!