Jay Allen of Radio Jay Allen reviews the new Sangean ATS-405. Surprisingly, the ATS405 outperformed the Tecsun PL-660 and PL-880 on AM. I'm really shocked by that.
While FM is strong on the 405, it was slightly edged out by the aforementioned radios. If this were an apex FM performer, the 405 would be on my wish list.
It's about time someone designed a DSP-based radio on which the soft mute and tuning mute can be disabled. Hopefully others will implement these features in their future designs.
Posted by: Gary | July 09, 2015 at 09:47 AM
Jay Allen reviews the Tecsun PL-680:
http://radiojayallen.com/tecsun-pl-680/
Unfortunately, it has even worse MW AM reception than the PL-660, which wasn't very good anyway, so I'll pass.
Posted by: Gary | July 11, 2015 at 02:01 PM
I might be of interest to some folks that Sangean has discontinued the ATS 404 (naturally) and also the ATS 505. The 505 has had quite a few fans, including myself. I haven't heard if Sangean will replace it with a new radio (such as the 506).
Posted by: Tim | July 13, 2015 at 08:32 PM
Not "I," but "It". Sorry.
Posted by: Tim | July 13, 2015 at 08:33 PM