Sergio Says the Grundig S450DLX Is Worth the Money

 

I just bought the Grundig S450DLX and I can say that is very sensitive in MW and SW the bands tha I use mostly. I have a Sangean PR5 D and it is as sensitive

as that radio. It tunes in 1 khz increments, the narrow filter works well and the RF attenuator is good to have when you get close to a strong station.

I was able to tune a lot of MW stations as far as Venezuela 780, Radio Caribe Cuba 1220, The Bahamas in 1540 and 810,1300 in Maratton Keywith 2.5 KW, A station in NYC from Miami so the radio works very well on MW. I tuned the SW bands and it is very sensitive.

I do not have any of the problems reported about noises or beeps while tuning. The radio quality looks fine for a radio of this price range.FM has an excellent audio.For the going on sale price of $70 at RS is a good deal.

Comments

[Dannibal]

How does it tune? I returned one because the digital tuning was annoyingly far off. I agree that it is sensitive and the sound is very good, but I would expect a digital radio to have an accurate display.

[Richard Berler]

I got mine a good portion of a year ago. MW sensitivity daytime is above average, but not as sensitive as the Sangean PR-D5 or SONY ICF-S5W. The 450 is much more selective than the Sangean, however. On small portions (mainly higher portion of band) of the MW spectrum, I hear noise that stops when not turning the tuning knob. On SW, sensitivity is quite good. Narrow choice for selectivity is a good choice for listening in most cases...wide does sound better when a station is in the clear and coming in well. Narrow is pretty good at dealing with adjacent frequency qrm, and off tuning helps as well. I find that turning the bass high and treble high makes for easier copy on weak stations...in any case, nice to have these controls. I find that it's not worth using the memories. The slow and fast tuning buttons and "Q" advance to next SW band are ok. Nice to just tune around on this radio. I use it on batteries as well due to noise on the ac plug in. My only negative is that mixing products from local am/fm's can show up on the SW bands (rf control not effective in elliminating this). All in all, worth the $70!