What brand/type of radio do you have at home?

Hamsterchops

My main house radio is a Revo Superconnect, then in the kitchen I have a Roberts 93i, with a Philips ae8000 in the bedroom.
All three are WiFi/internet radios (with FM & DAB+).

What radio do you have at home?

smurfjed

None, use various app's on a Samsung connected to wireless speakers.

Ursus Horribilis

A decent sounding smart speaker so Google can spy on me. I use it for radio, Spotify and podcasts. The FM radio is sitting unloved in the cupboard.

Doodah7

Amazon Echo Dot connected by bluetooth to a Bose Soundlink Mini II.

Ursus Horribilis

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

A decent sounding smart speaker so Google can spy on me. I use it for radio, Spotify and podcasts. The FM radio is sitting unloved in the cupboard.

Same here. I really enjoy the audio you get from radio frequency - hard to describe, but I daresay radio fans can relate - nevertheless, find myself increasingly listening to radio over WiFi, at home or in the car.

I probably haven't listened to FM radio in months.

byte

I've a Roberts Stream93i in the kitchen, which I find excellent coupled with Undok app on the phone.

My older Stream83i is now in the bedroom and I also have a Google Home Mini in the sitting room though don't often listen to radio on it.

corks finest

Roberts (latest) bluetooth etc, fantastic

corks finest

byte wrote: »

I've a Roberts Stream93i in the kitchen, which I find excellent coupled with Undok app on the phone.

My older Stream83i is now in the bedroom and I also have a Google Home Mini in the sitting room though don't often listen to radio on it.

Same,class radio- best on the market

NIMAN

Have a little Bush FM radio in the kitchen that has been doing much of the duties for the last few years.

But Fathers Day brought me an Amazon Echo thingee, so that'll be playing more radio in the coming months.

rodge68

Argos Bush retro looking radio bedside.
Old Hitachi in kitchen.
Dali 5x Bluetooth speakers in main living area, great sound..
Another Argos cheap shower radio.
And a Sondtrom in another bedroom, crap sound, mind of its own, switching on and off..

stanley1

Roberts 93i, listening to radio paradise most of the time on internet.

JDxtra

A Sonos sound bar in the living room, and a Sonos One in kitchen. A Sony portable FM/DAB+ radio also in the kitchen - this one is on most of the day.

Then for radio anorak purposes, a Sony ST-SB920QS separate tuner (dual FM antenna input, signal meter, excellent audio) and an XHDATA D-808 portable radio.

Hamsterchops

Doodah7 wrote: »

Amazon Echo Dot connected by bluetooth to a Bose Soundlink Mini II.

Interesting....
I'm also thinking of getting an Echo Dot and running it through a Roberts R1, this will give me multiple options, uncliding the 'Undok' app + Bluetooth + verbal instructions to the Dot

Harry Palmr

A Roberts with LW, it's not brilliant all things considered.

Ursus Horribilis

I tried out an Echo Dot and was quite disappointed with it. The Google Home system is vastly superior in my opinion. Alexa just about OK with TuneIn but had (has?) a weird quirk where you can't just ask it to play the BBC Radio stations - you have to say "Alexa, ask Tune-In to play BBC Radio 6". It's utterly dire with Spotify and it's in the lap of the gods whether it'll play the music you want or not. No doubt it works seamlessly with Amazon Music :rolleyes: The Alexa app isn't the best either. Maybe it's a good system if you want to start adding other things to it. As a bog standard home radio/music player it's awful.

People tend to think of Alexa when smart speakers are mentioned (are they the Hoover or IBM of the smart speaker world) but I strongly urge them to not just blindly buy one because they fancy saying Alexa rather than OK Google. I haven't tried anyone else's system so I don't know if they're better or worse. All I know is that after trying an Alexa, I wouldn't touch it with a 10ft bargepole.

Hamsterchops

Harry Palmr wrote: »

A Roberts with LW, it's not brilliant all things considered.

You should get a WiFi radio, presuming you have a connection.

Tommy Kelly

Have a wireless in the kitchen.

L1011

Google Hub Max in the kitchen, Chromecast Audio connected to a proper amp in living room. If you do this make sure to turn off the setting that compresses the sound assuming you're using crap speakers.

Harry Palmr

Hamsterchops wrote: »

You should get a WiFi radio, presuming you have a connection.

I used to have a one then I needed to raise money so sold it and the router. I have WiFi again cos of my phone so I should get back into internet radio.

plodder

L1011 wrote: »

Google Hub Max in the kitchen, Chromecast Audio connected to a proper amp in living room. If you do this make sure to turn off the setting that compresses the sound assuming you're using crap speakers.

Sorry to dig this up, but what app are you using to cast Irish radio channels to Chromecast? I don't see it in the RTE Radio Player or the Go Loud thing that Newstalk uses.

L1011

plodder wrote: »

Sorry to dig this up, but what app are you using to cast Irish radio channels to Chromecast? I don't see it in the RTE Radio Player or the Go Loud thing that Newstalk uses.

I command it with a Google Home Mini in the same room configured to know the Chromecast Audio is its device for audio. It still talks back to you over the Mini speaker but Tunein/Spotify/any other audio app goes to the Chromecast and hence the amp.

I've since added a late 1980s Pioneer FM/AM tuner, but FM reception is actually awful when I live so good luck getting stereo on anything except RTE.

plodder

L1011 wrote: »

I command it with a Google Home Mini in the same room configured to know the Chromecast Audio is its device for audio. It still talks back to you over the Mini speaker but Tunein/Spotify/any other audio app goes to the Chromecast and hence the amp.

I've since added a late 1980s Pioneer FM/AM tuner, but FM reception is actually awful when I live so good luck getting stereo on anything except RTE.

I didn't realise RTE and Newstalk are both on Tunein. Good to know.

corks finest

plodder wrote: »

I didn't realise RTE and Newstalk are both on Tunein. Good to know.

Roberts,fab, WiFi etc