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The new SANYO R227 WiFi internet radio is capable of delivering thousands of FREE internet radio stations and podcasts (sports, music, talk shows) from virtually every region of the world! As a stand-alone audio product which does not require a PC to operate or any subscription fees, the R227 provides listeners an easy way to access quality internet radio via a WiFi or broadband Ethernet connection. The R227 delivers exceptional sound performance through the use of high quality speaker drivers, dual tuned porting and matched amplifiers. Its distinctive design and styling makes it perfect complement in any home or office setting. The R227 makes it easy for sports fans, ex-patriots, and radio enthusiasts to enjoy their favorite local radio in non-local areas. Internet radio stations and podcasts can be easily searched by country or genre (MP3, WMA, AAC, AIFF, RM and WAV formats supported) with 8 Internet station presets. The device also boasts a FM stereo digital tuner with 8 station presets. Designed with the user in mind, the R227 offers simple, one-button on/off function viewing on easy to read backlit display. All features are easily accessible via the large rotary dial, front panel buttons or by using the full function remote control. The unit automatically updates internet radio stations and clock time setting from the internet. Additionally, the user can request new stations to be added to the station database. Clock and alarm functions allow users to wake up to Internet or FM radio programming as well as buzzer. High efficiency 90mm speaker drivers with dual tuned ports coupled with 4 watts RMS system amplifier power provide extended bass response resulting in a warm, rich sound which is virtually unmatched in tabletop audio.
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Technical Details
- Works wired ethernet or wireless broadband connections- FM PLL tuning radio
- Media Player to play wirelessly from your PC
- Stereo Aux Input for portable players
- Clock and Alarm function to wake to Internet radio or FM
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By NJcumVAguy (Midlothian, Virginia USA)
Got my Sanyo R227 Internet radio from Amazon within 4 business days and was ready to rock 'n' roll. Easy set up and no problems finding stations to listen to. The sound is super for a clock radio, although I would have liked to see a tone control since the radio is a bit heavy on the bass. Build quality is impressive too. Compact and heavy; not at all cheap looking.
The bad news is that my radio always lost the WiFi signal within 3 minutes of connecting, thus requiring a reboot every time. I called Sanyo service and was met by the most droll, uninterested, tech support man on the face of the earth. He volunteered no helpful info and answered every question that I asked in the most bored, brief, demeanor imaginable. SANYO, find this unhelpful guy and DUMP him! Concluding on my own that my radio was faulty, I decided to exchange the radio at Amazon and I'm now awaiting the new radio. Never one to put all my eggs in one basket, though, I also order an Aluratek radio. I'll keep whichever radio works best!
Got the replacement radio today (10/6) and everything works great. I'm very impressed with the R227 so far. I'll be returning the Aluratek to Staples tonight. It's much smaller than the R227 and doesn't have the quality feel, or appearance of the R227. It couldn't beat this Sanyo R227 as a bedside radio since it has only one speaker. The Aluratek unit also has a cheap plastic smell. The Sanyo has no odors to overcome.
Buyers of this great Sanyo radio need to be aware that the 8 presets are, thankfully, not the only way to save your favorite stations. To get many more favorites, you'll merely log on to [...], enter your radio registration number, and their massive list of Internet stations is quickly at your fingertips. At the Reciva web site you'll select your favorite stations and, then, when you turn on your radio you find them all listed under MY STUFF on your radio's menu. In other words, you can have dozens (thousands?) of favorites. You may have to reboot your radio to see them.
My only complaint as of today (10/7) is the searchlight-bright display in the dark bedroom. I'll need to find some clingy tint film and put it over the screen. You can adjust the radio backlighting, but it doesn't help. I'll post more when I find a solution to the light problem.
Oh, I do have one other problem. I want to carry this radio everywhere I go!!!!!!!! (and I have XM in the car)
By John (Mid-Atlantic State)
My opening statement may appear to be a thumbs down on this product,but please read on: I absolutely hate the cheap built in speakers. Manufacturers have been incorporating junk speakers in high quality electronic devices for ages. Fortunately,you can bypass the speakers. There are 3 options as describe in the manual. I connected my Tivoli radio by Henry Kloss to the Sanyo R227 via input/output mini-jacks resulting in superior audio from the one tiny Tivoli speaker.
I returned the R227 due to damage and requested a replacement. In other words I resisted an an opportunity for a refund,because the radio is worth keeping. I also have an internet radio built into my Nokia E63 smart phone that I connect to my Tivoli, or stereo home system. For some of you the Nokia E63 might be a better option when you consider price and all the extras you have with a smart phone, but I considered the shortened battery life and the risk of dropping my Nokia to be too risky for me. If you use the internet radio only occasionally, buy the Nokia E63 it's a bigger bang for the buck. I just love the Nokia E63.
One last thing the Sanyo manual is good, but you can figure out the radio functions without it. On the other hand the Nokia E63 manual stinks, but boy is the Nokia worth the extra mile.
P.S. I'm listing to the R227 right now. In my opinion it's worth the money. My only gripe is those cheap speakers.
By KS (Seattle, WA)
It didn't take me long to hate this unit. I unpacked the box to find a nice looking piano-black unit, well-packed and pretty small in size. So far, so good. Since I already have a Logitech Squeezebox, and am already fairly geeky, I knew setting this thing up should be pretty easy. I guess I should not have made that assumption because it was anything but easy to set up and use. Instead of spreading out the "pros" and "cons" before you. I'll just enumerate my findings.
1. The remote: Small. Unbelievably bad placement of controls. The cursor controls are not grouped together (lower left side) and the select buttong is WAY up top above a very large Sleep button (which should have been the Select button). Whoever thought up this design should return their pay for creating this contraption.
2. The display: Looks OK, until you start navigating it. It is fairly hard to read with the bluish backlight. I could actually read the display with the backlight off
3. Nagitation: Awful, simply awful. It seems that each time you start looking for a station it has to go out ro Reciva to grab the list. That takes time. In my case it took about a minute to retrieve 1850 stations. So, the list comes up and the fun begins. There are a handful of stations that I like and listen to on the Squeezebox. It took me less than 10 minutes to set them up on that box, and I can also use the web ui to configure them via a browser. That isn't the case with this machine. I had to scroll through the list looking for the stations I wanted. When I found them and attempting to listen to them, I could not connect. Trust me, this isn't a connection issue since my Squeebox works flawlessly on the same network. It is very rare that I have connection issues with the Squeezebox; very rare. When I finally was able to connect to a station at random, the quality was just OK and uninspiring. OK, I know, "what do you expect?". Well, I guess I was going to be as thrilled as other people who stated their love for this thing. Me? Not so much.
4. Network Performance: When you start up the device it goes out hunting for a connection and it typically takes two or three minutes to even know it's connected. Perhaps it is trying to connect to [...] and that site is slow; I don't know. But it's crappy. When I attempted to connect to a remote server where my MP3 files are it wanted me to enter a user name to the share (I was using Windows Shares, not Windows Media sharing). It left me on the screen where I enter the user name, but I had not clue how to move to the next step (like the password). There was nothing in the docs that tell you how. Silly me, for not using Windows Media.
5. Firmware Upgrade: I upgraded the firmware and that took about 10 minutes. The screen jumped around spasmotically with the update stats at 7% intervals.
6. General UI: The UI (display) wasn't well thought out. At one point I had two scrolling sentences on the SAME line. When the characters collided they washed each other out. Very buggy. Uncool.
7. On Radio Controls: Although a little easier to use than the remote, the on-radio controls are a cock-up as well. Back button, select buttons, a ring that contans some push buttons (but you can't really tell until you press on the plastic). Who thought this up? If like somebody just thrown the controls randomly and the box and that's where they stayed. Never mind about the logical placement ("let see, if they press the up arrow to make a menu selection, maybe we should put the select button close to the cursor so they don't have to move their fingers far or have to use two hands").
How long did I have the unit? About 1 hour. I figured if that this device is so frustrating at the start why saddle myself with this thing for 5 or 10 years?
I've noticed that often a company's website can be an indication of how well the company is run. Go try to find the on-line manual for this unit. It's there. But start at [...] and go on a little easter egg hunt to find the manual. Finding the manual was similar to trying to figure out how the unit worked; frustrating.
My 2 cents. Sorry Sanyo. Take a close, magnigied look at the unit. It looks stylish zoomed out, but zoom in and you will see what I mean about the user-interface. Simply maddening.
By M. Quinn (Pleasanton, CA USA)
I owned a CC Plus radio for a number of years and thought it was great with excellent design and performance. Then I got hooked on Internet radio with its clarity and wide selection. So, for some time I used an older laptop as the input to my CC Plus radio. This worked pretty well until my son asked for the old laptop. So, I decided to shop for an Internet radio and chose the Sanyo R227.
First, the good news. I get the same clarity, wide selection, and decent performance from the R227. I use it as a bedside radio and enjoy talk radio programs for awhile as I drop off to sleep. I maintain that this radio was, at the time, probably the best compromise between function and price at the time I purchased, and I do not regret the purchase for that reason. Set up was not difficult, sound is a bit bassy, but not a problem and perhaps better for music. So, don't get me wrong. It's a pretty neat radio. The choices are endless!
Now, the bad news. I think the functional design of this radio is truly lacking. The biggest issue, perhaps, is the fact that you cannot shut down the display illumination (bright as a spotlight when you're trying to fall asleep)if the radio is on. Isn't this absurd if one uses this as a bedside radio? This sure is not a problem with my CC Plus radio. To add insult to injury, I call the Sanyo support phone number and some bored tech tells me that no, you can't turn off the light while the radio is on and suggests I turn the radio around on my night stand so it does not shine at me! What a helpful genius. Anyway, I point out the shortcomings of this lack of functionality and suggest that the next software update remedy this situation. I got one of those "Sure, Mac, now let me get back to my coffee." type answers. Not impressed at all if this is the caliber of their support. My solution is to hang an old credit card (with adhesive tape)over the display. This way I can flap it up or down. It's not elegant, but I suppose it will have to do.
Furthermore, you get 7 lousy pre-sets to deal with the thousands of station choices available to you. Buttons are all tiny (no convenient dial to control volume), as is the situation with the miniature remote. In other words, using this radio as a bedside radio in the dark is a serious challenge-- never an issue with any previous radio. As others have reported, there are a handful of stations I used to listen to via my computer that, for some obscure Reciva reason, are not available on the R227. It's not a huge deal because of the thousands of other choices, but it is slightly annoying. Don't count on much functionality with respect to listening to your MP3 collection back on your PC, either. Can you do it? Well, yeah, but it's pretty clunky.
All in all, it is worth the $155 but be aware of the shortcomings of this radio. I give the design a "D" and everything else an "A-".
By Y. Tai
Bought this radio for my parents after reading all the good reviews online. Like most others' comments, it is easy to use, finds the WiFi network quickly, tons of stations to choose from, solid build quality, etc. These are all good and true. The only problem (which may not matter to you) is that it accesses the "reciva.com" to search for available stations and it does not allow you to manually type in a web address if the station of your interest is not listed.
For people who mainly search the list and listen to whatever is available there, there are tons of stations to choose from. For my parents who are from Taiwan, I know a certain stations that they like to listen to, so I checked the "reciva.com" before the purchase. I found 47 stations from Taiwan listed in early August 2009. Most of them did not pass the so called "Daily streaming test by Reciva", yet some of them are accessable if I try to listen from the links on its web site. When I received the radio, it is up and running in 5 minutes. However, I could only see 12 stations from Taiwan, and most of the stations of my parent's interest are not listed. As much as I like this cute product, I choose to return it the same week.
I checked the "Reciva.com" again today. It now only lists 22 stations from Taiwan, but all of them passed its "daily streaming test". I am guessing that the list is updated frequently, and they only show those stations that are accessable to this radio now. This is a good move as it reduces any misunderstanding by the consumers.
To summarize, if you just want a easy to use internet radio and you don't have a specific station in mind, this is almost perfect. Get it and enjoy. If you have specific radio station in mind, check the web site first. If it's not there, check back often. I still think it's a 5 star product because this has more to do with the radio station and less to do with the product itself.
Hope this helps.
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