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Twenty dollars off what could be the final stock of what I believe is the soon to be defunct Grundig S350DL. Huge sound from an analog radio with digital display. This would make a great garage radio.
If anyone knows the S350's status pertaining to being discontinued or not, please let us know.
I got the Grundig S450DLX for Christmas & I was nervous because I had one of the earlier ones back in February...But this one is fantastic!
The display on FM is spot on now, and the I can get one of my favorite FM stations that about 50 miles away from me with no problem. The AM band is free from all the tuning hash the earlier one had.
The one I have now was built around July 2011 if I am reading the serial number correctly. The SW is great as well.
The only beef I have is the AC adapter is a little noisy, but on batteries it's great. I can live with that as now that it's my new bedside radio.
I usually fall asleep to the local station playing Coast To Coast AM, and the noise is only perceptable when chasing weak stations. For that I usually run on battery power anyway, to reduce any interference from the AC line.
In an interview on Marc Maron's WTF podcast, Anthony Bourdain said that cynical and ironic food is never good, that to make good food you have to be a romantic.
I don't know if this goes under the label ironic or not, but I remember about 20 years ago there was a theme Italian restaurant in Bakersfield in which the waiters dressed up as Bugs Malone gangsters, talked in a tough-guy accent and photographed you with people in costumes before asking if you wanted to buy a Polaroid for $15, which could be added to your tab.
To put it bluntly, the experience was disgusting and I was gratified to see the restaurant shut down after several months. Perhaps I hated it so much because it was both cynical and miserably feeble in its attempt at irony.
As a radiophile, it's not surprising that no modern radio floats my boat like the vintages (good luck competing with my Panasonic RF-888, especially on AM sound) but because I can't repair the oldies and because I have no patience for analog tuning, I like to have a good digitial around.
After 3 or 4 tries, I go to my current favorite the C.Crane CCRadio-SW Radio. The sound is not as warm as my Boston Acoustics, but I like the C.Crane's portability, long FM antenna, and rechargeable D batteries.
I also like that I can crank up the volume knob less than half-way, as I did yesterday while playing with the girls in the backyard, and sound gets LOUD.
I don't like that the memory system makes you scroll upwards and go through every station, but I've learned to live with this.
The CCRadio-SW is old product, meaning it's been around for 4 years or so, but to date it has no competition in the portable field radio category. And I don't expect anything to emerge in 2012, but I'd love to be wrong.
The Invicta Russian Diver Reserve has been re-issued under the black label for ShopNBC where it currently sells for about $380 with distressed leather, a look that I feel ruins it.
The original Reserve version is currently at Jomashop for a very good price of $221. This is a very unique looking diver watch that is hand built and hand finished. You have to see this one in person. At the very least, see it on this ShopNBC video.
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Thanks, Paul:
Price drop: Sangean AM/FM Pocket Analog Radio SR-35 $12.99 shipped free:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882720078