Customer Ratings & Reviews

THE RANGE FOR VOLUME ON THIS RADIO IS VERY LOW.CAN'T HEAR ALL STATIONS.

Awful piece of crap. Wouldn't pay $1 for this. Useless.

I pick up more stations on my car, this only picked up local stations.

This radio isn't worth, buying ithas alot of status.

no good receiving channels and bad sound quality would not recommend

I returned the item because it did not have an AM band for the radio

I usually stick to major brand names when it comes to electronics like Sony, JBL, Panasonic etc. but Insignia nailed this one BIG TIME!! They are one of the very few companies to make an HD radio and they put a lot of thought into the design before they did it. First of all the radio itself is built very solid. Has weight to it and very stable on any flat surface. Second, the sound coming out of it's own speakers, although they are small with very little bass, is extremely rich. Just like listening to a CD. Once you use the headphone jack and hook it up to a higher end speaker system you will not believe the clarity of the sound across the entire frequency spectrum, bass and all. I got this on sale for about $35 but had I heard this in the store I would have paid full price. The only thing Insignia should have done was add some kind of equalizer to it so that you could enhance the base and treble to your taste. Other than that this is the way to go for a basic portable HD radio. On the HD stations the sound is very pure and there is no static whatsoever!!

I could not find or hear my local radio station which was AM.

Does not work in a office setting lots of static poor reception

Was great for 6 months and then it stopped working

Wouldn't pick up any station tried inside and outside

Distorted reception--shorted out-returned to Best Buy

I purchased the original model of this radio last year and returned it after I discovered the RBDS didn't work at all in analog mode. Other than this, I would have kept it. Slight glitch...I do notice the RBDS works on this new model (thank you for fixing this) but the radio tries to scroll the text of the station name in analog mode on the left side of the screen and it doesn't get a chance to display the full text of what the radio station is trying to say because the radio is flipping every 5 seconds between the station name that will not fit in the far left side of the screen before the song information on the right. It starts to scroll but gets interrupted because the radio thinks it needs to show the full name of the station in rotation. Need to have it scroll just like it does in HD mode. In HD mode it keeps everything on one line and scrolls just fine. This is not enough for me to return it. The radio sounds fantastic. Battery life is great. Reception is great. Looks nice. Buttons are perfect. Let's you load your HD2 and 3 stations into memory. Feels nice and looks expensive.

There was no am radio and it is just regular service

The product doesn't stay on. Not happy with this product.

Sales folk suggested it, useless for our requirements

I got this for Christmas for my HD radio collection. It's a great FM portable HD radio, with a aux input, but what I can do with this receiver is receive local and distant HD radio stations from the telescoping whip antenna, but cannot hook up an outdoor antenna. It reminds me of my other portable short wave radios I got, but this one does not have AM / SW or LW not even DRM for decoding digital SW signals, but it would of been great if it had come with the AM broadcast band for HD radio and also a bluetooth receiver, but since it does not have those, I have connect or buy a extra bluetooth receiver to add along with it to listen to various audio sources and also internet radio from the phone or tablet. It comes with it's own AC adapter with a big ferrite bead to keep the interference down. I hope in the near future they come out with another model that has the AM broadcast band and bluetooth and also FM and aux input. So with the aux input you can connect it to your laptop, and even a portable walkman or CD , or mp3 player. Now back to the HD radio, I have bought my first HD radio before from Best Buy, and it was very small than this one, and the best thing about this new one is that thank goodness I can take it out with me and it runs on AA batteries and not some recharageable battery, and also the reception is much better than the small portable one, and the local FM HD radio stations lock in better than the small one. I know that this radio is going to last long than the small one I owned years ago.

For the price, this is good value for money if you are specifically looking for a radio that can receive HD Radio signals. I also like that even though it is battery-powered, the external power supply is included in the box. This radio also has some modes that aren't documented in the manual that make it VERY useful for test/engineering purposes. Split mode: This mode is used for calibrating the time-delay alignment at the transmitter site. Because of the interleaving, FEC, codec, buffering, and other processing delays in the digital audio path as compared to the instantaneous nature of the analog path, the digital path is delayed. It is thus necessary to delay the analog audio by a suitable amount at the transmitter so that as the reception varies, the radio can switch back and forth between analog and the digital simulcast seamlessly without any listener discomfort or annoyance. The NRSC-5 specification states that the difference between the analog FM audio and the HD1 digital audio simulcast shall not exceed 68 microseconds. This mode allows you to calibrate this by putting both signals on one output that you can record with a computer and then visualize the waveform (and relative delay) in an audio editor program To enter split mode, press and hold MEMORY and HD SEEK (-) at the same time. After 3s, "CH:Normal" will appear on the screen. To toggle split-mode, press MEMORY again. "CH:L-HD R-FM" will appear on the screen. RSSI, manual gain, CINR, SNR: This mode has to do with measuring the strength and quality of the incoming signal and overriding the automatic gain control. This can help you fine-tune the antenna for tuning in radio stations that have a weak signal where you are located. To enter this mode, press and hold MEMORY and HD SEEK (+) at the same time. After 3s, "m>XXX rssi:xx" will appear on the screen. To change the gain control, use PRESET (-)/(+) buttons. To see CINR/SNR, press MEMORY. "C:XXX Snr:xx" will appear on the screen. PBlock, PBit, P3, P2, P1 packet counters: This is used to verify that the radio is or is not receiving digital data from the transmitter, and if so, which programs it is receiving data for. This mode is likely most helpful for the people who wrote the firmware, but could also be helpful for tuning in weak stations. To enter this mode, press and hold MEMORY and VOLUME (+) at the same time. After 3s, "PBlock:xxxxxxxxx\ntot:xxxxxxxxx" will appear on the screen. To cycle between PBlock, PBit, P3, P2, P1, press MEMORY. Total packet counter remains on the screen at all times. Clear presets: Press and hold MEMORY and SOURCE at the same time. After 3s, "Restart ...." will appear on the screen. The device will clear all stored presets. Exiting any of these menus to return to normal operation requires a soft power-cycle by holding down the power button. It is NOT necessary to remove the batteries or unplug the power supply.

I purchased this because my favorite station split in two One of them became HD and I could no longer receive it and it had some great programs that I missed. I read all the reviews and was convinced that this radio was just the ticket. The good news -- it felt like a solid radio and was not too big and not too small. The sound was nice, not tinny at all. It brought in several HD stations. Unfortunately, the station that I wanted didn't come in well at all. It clipped in and out and I knew that would eventually make me throw the radio against the wall. My conclusion -- I live in a dead zone (I have the same trouble with TV stations). I returned the radio and bought an internet radio that is perfect. I have no doubt that if I lived elsewhere, this HD radio would have been great.

To start, I live near a major city where most stations broadcast in HD. So far the extra bands (HD2 and 3) seem to typically serve ether rebroadcasted AM stations or specific decades of music. The sound quality (at least when tuned to an HD station or used as a speaker for your phone) is good for a unit this size, perfect for a small room. Some problems however: The screen never shuts off or dims, even after 30+ minutes of use, probably leading to the radio's poor battery life(on rechargeables). Overall this is a good, small and inexpensive HD tuner, but that is all it is.