Antennas Direct - ClearStream 2MAX Indoor/Outdoor HDTV Antenna - Black

I bought the Indoor/Outdoor HDTV Clear stream 2Max OTA Antenna just to test it as an outdoor antenna. There was no doubt in my mind that it would not work as well as I wanted it to, and that I would return it. So I put it on my roof but did not mount it down and pretty much got the same channels I was getting before. I went back and adjusted the antenna slightly in another direction, rescanned the channels again and WOW!, I could not believe it, my channel line up went from 29 channels to 44 clear channels with no pixels. the digital indicator on my Yamaha 6.1 receiver indicated digital source and the picture and surround sound is incredible. Grant it , it is still Winter and the leaves are not on the thousand trees I have in my back yard, but right now everything is great. I am getting channels 60 + miles away. This Clear stream 2Max OTA Antenna for me is a keeper.

This antenna is very easy to hook-up right out of the box. Pulls in a great signal with better picture quality than the local cable company provided. It’s sitting on an end table in front of a large bow window. I have it positioned facing the towers in my area which are about 10 miles away. I returned the first antenna I purchased @ Best Buy. It had a built in amplifier and performed less than satisfactory.I Should have saved myself the inconvenience and bought the Clearstream 2 Max from the beginning. I get all the local channels and then some!

Yeah I didn't want to spend a lot of money, though buying this was well worth it. I no more than took it out of the box fastened the coaxial cable to the TV and to the antenna. Pulled up the arms, and set it/ wedged it a spot on a shelf. Turned on the TV/ settings/auto scan channels. Boom, double the channels of my previous flat leaf antenna. Boom Boom, all of them had picture/sound and of quality. I can say that I am in a third floor apartment, and have had trouble with a few different antennas this one is excellent right out of the gate. Also it's inside, though close to and outside wall. Now I will just need to fine tune a more fixed and permanent placement for it.

I've been a cord cutter for more than a decade and dealt with the vagaries of a changing skyline around us and unpredictable weather. Living in lower Manhattan, the issue isn't signal strength but rather multi-path signals from reflections off all the buildings around us. In the days before digital TV, that meant severe ghosting and a picture that was unwatchable. With today's digital TV, the picture is either perfect or not there at all, and even with transmissions from only a few miles away, a rain shower can cause the picture to break up. We can receive some 50 channels, but ever since the new World Trade Center was completed, half of them are broadcast from there with the other half from the Empire State Building, 90 degrees in the other direction. Living inside a steel-frame building, no single indoor antenna could capture all stations from both directions. Using a so-called omni-directional antenna or combining multiple indoor antennas actually made the problem significantly worse, and amplifying the signal made no difference at all. An amplified bad signal is still a bad signal. After reading many reviews, we decided on this antenna. It claims to pull in stations from 60 miles away, but that was not an issue for us. We just needed to be able to pull in stations from several city blocks away. Most outdoor antennas, however, are highly directional and cannot handle the off-axis signals that predominate in New York. Although directional, the ClearStream 2MAX has one of the best off-axis signal capture profiles of any antenna on the market. In theory, aiming it between the two transmitters should still yield a usable signal. In actual practice, our first attempt was a complete bust. With the antenna mounted directly over one of the building's largest steel support beams, there was no usable signal at all. With a longer cable and by mounting the antenna directly to the railing of our terrace, the reception was perfect. For the first time since we cut the cord some 12 years ago, we are able to pull in all stations in all kinds of weather, without fail. This is a very large antenna but when it comes to pulling in a stable digital signal, size really does matter. Pros: Excellent signal quality, multiple mounting options, easy to position. Cons: Large and unwieldy, does not come with cable, which the user must supply, no options or instructions for proper grounding - the user must supply their own grounding block and look up instructions for use on their own.

Installed this in my attic and it works great. I get so many channels, all of the major networks so I can watch NBA playoffs. I’m in the valley in Los Angeles. The picture is super clear on most channels, I’m really impressed. If you’re getting this do yourself a favor and mount it high! Either in the attic or outside attached to the roof. Makes all the difference.

I have tried other antennas and had no luck with pointing and receiving all the channels in my area. Sometimes they were there and then they weren't. No matter how much i tried adjusting the antenna, I just couldn't get all the channels I should have been receiving. But with this antenna I didn't really even have to point it. I just roughly faced it towards the known location in Tampa and got all the channels perfectly. I am getting even more channels than expected, Scanned 65 channels in total on my first scan.

I was looking for an antenna that would pick up channels of the 2 major markets that I live inbetween. Of 137 channels I now receive 132! Be sure to point the antenna toward the towers in your area for the best clear picture. I put mine in the attic to reduce the amount of obstructions. Very happy with this purchase.

This is a review of the Clearstream 2MAX Indoor/Outdoor HDTV Antenna – with 60+ mile range. I tested the antenna in all four rooms to find the room with the best reception. My next step was to drill holes between the rooms. Finally, using RG6 coaxial cable and 2-way coax Splitters – I was able to link all four of my TV’s to the one Antenna which was located in the middle of the house. I ran the antenna channel finder on each TV and was able to pull in 22 channels. These are the channels that I listed in my Favorites. I actually ended up with two additional channels that were not in the Cable Basic package and as you can see the reception is excellent. I hope this has been beneficial