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The sound is pretty good, not great, but good. In a nut shell.overpriced for what it is. I bought this unit based on the opinion of a friend of mine since he owned one. I will not buy another one. Sometimes only two stations. Also several of the cage screws have fallen out somewhere along the way ao I need to get some new ones. I pulled them out and low and behold they shorted out.
I was very displeased with the radio, I can only pick up a few stations. The GFCI outlets quit working also. Wish I had not purchased this one. After getting a price on the part I have decided to make a plate and install regular household GFCI outlets since they are way better than the cheap ones installed by Bosch.
The Bosch rep in my area told me that the new version was much better, so I bought it. The sound quality is middle of the road. I have been very disappointed in the newer Bosch cordless tools, they are getting very cheap. I had one of the older versions of this unit. Fix the radio reception and I would give it four stars.
It had terrible radio reception. It still gets terrible reception. I have a $10 clock radio that picks up every station I listen to just fine and the Bosch can't tune most of them in. I love the cage, it makes the unit easy to carry and hard to destroy.
charges battery slow but there is lots of room inside charger bay to stash your ipod,cellphone,crack,whatever. good price.i work in construction filth and radio works fine. i blow it off and try to take care of it.gfi's are a great bonus and my ipod plugs in. so far so good place the whole thing under the chopsaw stand and u have mission control.i'm not an idiot so i dont play cd's in a dirty environment.if you do the cd player will be junk in weeks.sounds good too.
This radio is perfect. And I wish it had a place to store CDs but besides those small things, this radio is perfect for our needs. And I was a bit leary about purchasing a reconditioned radio but it works perfectly & we can't tell that it's not brand new. I bought this for my husband for father's day & he just loves it. We are very happy with the purchase.
We use it mainly on our pontoon boat since we don't have a built in radio & the other carry radios that we've had in the past got terrible reception & the batteries were dead after each use. We use it in the garage when we're not on the boat or it's great for camping &/or tailgating. I would recommend it to others. The only reason I didn't give it a 5star is cause turning the channels could be a bit easier, it just takes awhile to get from one end of the band to the other but that does work better once you've programed channels in.
I was excited and pleased when I received my radio, for about 7 months, and then the CD player started to act up and eventually just quit working altogether. The sun blocks the eye on the radio from "seeing" the remote. I purchased one of these from CPO Bosch , of whom I cannot say enough nice things about. I went back to using my old DeWalt with a MP3 or a junk CD player that I paid $20 from Walmart and am not interested in getting another one of these. As for the radio.I bought mine because my DeWalt had no remote or CD player and the stations in my area leave a lot to be desired. The remote is nice unless you are in bright sunlight, then it will not work due to the fact that the remote is an IR remote instead of a RF remote. Until just after a year, the display went out and never returned.
They are great to deal with so please use them and often. So I used it as a radio and a set of speakers for my MP3. Some may have good luck, but buyer beware. To be honest, it is a GREAT idea.
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