Do you feel the need to express yourself through your personal email attachments? Do you want a fancy phone with a camera, an MP3 player, and a built in computer? Are you a quick adopter for any new gadget? Express yourself through iPod with iPod skins, personal iPod accessories, and an extensive music playlist? Can your iPod play 10,000 songs or more? If so, this article is not really for you. This review is for someone who really wants to establish their credentials as a rebel and stand up to the breaking level of technological progress. This is a real review for a Luddite. This review is about a small AM/Fm radio: the Coby CX-7 AM/Fm Portable Personal Radio.
If you feel bourgeois capitalist ads, try buying an expensive iPod and turn your hard earned money into download music powerful, you’ll find the Coby CX-7 AM/FM Portable Personal Radio all the music you need for less than $10 and you’ll be thrilled to find free radio content. at no charge over the public airwaves. The radio is a direct descendant of the AM/Fm transistor radios that first became popular in the 1960s and 70s. I found my copy for about $5 at a Big Lots discount store.
The Coby CX-7 AM/FM portable radio comes in a small, lightweight package and measures 2-inches wide by 3 and 3/8 inches long and 7/8 inches wide including the attached belt clip. The radio has a beautiful accent that evokes the art deco style of the early 20th century and comes in a variety of colors. The radio features a neck strap, belt clip, and ear studs. The Nectar style headphones provide enough cord to reach from your belt or front pocket to your ears or from the side of your computer monitor to your ears. This small radio is manually turned by a top-mounted tuning wheel. Similar to the volume control wheel on the side, there are additional side switches to choose whether the radio is switched to AM or FM radio bands and whether the Bass Boost System (DBBS) is activated. This Coby radio is powered by two AAA batteries . For less than $10, the plastic case seems a little fragile and easily damaged for this radio.
By today’s standards, this radio technology is close to Amish. So some business has been done. The sound quality delivered depends heavily on the quality of radio reception in your area. For example, AM radio reception in a modern office building is almost non-existent. In a residential apartment building, it is a little better with noise. Outside it does somewhat better, but it can still vary with the position of the filings that serve to some extent as antennas. Unfortunately, no amount of tuning or positioning can make Sean Hannity’s voice less annoying or NPR’s announcers less snotty.
F. M. Reception is much better and reaches office buildings and residential buildings quickly. No wonder, coming with the best signal radio. When radio frequency stations are closely clustered, the signal from one station to another can be attenuated. With a manually tuned radio, it can take a little time to get used to the exact radio station. However, when tuned properly, the FM receiver offers acceptable reception and decent sound quality. Radio works best when there is still enough. This makes the Coby CX-7 AM/Fm radio a decent choice for use at work or in the car.
The Coby CX-7 AM/FM radio transmitter is good to use for testing radio reception in your office and to see if you would like to enjoy listening to the radio in your cube. It’s small enough and discreet enough to stick in your pocket and turn into an MP3 player. Radio still offers an endless variety of free content and frees you from the need to download your music and load songs. For a digitally sweet alternative, Coby also offers the slightly more expensive Coby CX-9 Digital Mini AM/FM Pocket Radio. For a greater experience, you can also opt for Sony SFR-M37V FM/AM/Weather/TV Radio Walkman About $30. After a few weeks of occasional use, I think I would like to have a slightly better radio than my CX-7 cube. When radio weather stations and news reports pass, the Coby CX-7 might also be a good addition. home emergency kit It’s not an iPod companion, but then again it costs far less and it’s not an iPod radio.
