Grace Wifi Radio
Now you can listen to streaming Internet radio via your wireless network using the Grace Wireless Internet Radio. The Grace radio supports MP3, WMA and Real Media streaming. The 4-line LCD displays the song and artist. The intuitive and easy-to-use controls let you browse over 10,000 global Internet radio stations with ease.You can browse by location or by genre. Have you ever wanted to hear what's going on in your home town, state or country? What about local sports scores or weather reports from other places? Well, now Grace makes it possible!The sleek and simple design makes it a fit in most living rooms as well as easy and intuitive to use. Get yours today!
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Grace Wifi Radio Reviews
The sound is clear. But of course the great thing is that it gets radio stations from all around the world without the hissing or other problems that short wave has. I recently purchased a Grace Wifi Radio and have found it to be quite good. I use it as an alarm clock in the morning and it works great. It works well whether I have it playing softly or moderately loud.
If you're looking for an internet radio to get stations that you no longer have access to, this thing will do it well. But I figured out that sometimes it takes about half a minute to a minute for it to do all it's little connection things and then it starts playing the last station I was listening to, which is great. My mom found half a dozen of her favorite stations and I showed her how to program them into the Favorites buttons on the front of the device. Price wasn't so much of an issue - we were willing to buy something high-end provided the product worked as intended and my mother (who is not the most tech-savvy person out there) could easily operate. The Grace was by far not the most expensive option we could have gone with, but in the end I think it was the smartest. She's been using it for six months now, and just uses the stations she has in her favorites, so she doesn't really utilize the directory of thousands of stations. Sometimes when I turn it on, nothing happens and I think I haven't really turned it on.
The interface is very intuitive and straight forward. Quality is great, so far reliability has been great in the first 6 months. My mother usually likes listening to NPR while she does chores around the house, and so my brother and I set out to find a good solution. The operation is very undaunting - for the tech-savvy individual you will be able to just start using the device. But the buttons on the front thankfully mean she probably won't have to do that. We turned off the radio, unplugged it, and tried again, and we haven't had a single problem since. Like I said, we were willing to spend the cash to get her something that worked.
The quality of the speaker is nothing short of superb, and the selection of radio stations is immense. We read through every review written for all of the different internet-radios available. I just asked her how it's been working, and she said "oh it's so great. So if she had to go back and find the stations again, she may get a little lost without some help. After a few days of trying to decide which product to try, we settled for the Grace Wi-Fi Radio. If you find yourself easily confused by newfangled devices, the provided instructions are easy to follow and should get you browsing through stations very quickly.
After taking the radio out of the box and plugging it in, we initially had some confusion connecting to our Linksys wireless access point. I love my radio.". Setting favorites is easy - you just press and hold down the favorite button and the current station gets programmed in, just like a car stereo. This morning I was listening to Car Talk while ironing. My parents recently moved from the New York metro area out to a more remote location, and they lost all their favorite radio stations.
Although we haven't I understand you can jack the Grace into your stereo system for better music sound quality. However, if you require Bose quality sound for music this probably won't do. Access to over 10,000 radio stations is the real reason to buy an internet radio. If you love radio this is amazing. We now have two of them; one in the kitchen and one next to our bed. Mainly I listen to Public Radio and the sound is good.
I purchased this item for my office for ambient music. No complaints, except that the price seemed a little high which is why I gave it a 4-star rating. Regular radio has so many adds that that was not helpful. It is exactly as I hoped it would be.
There is a huge variety of stations to choose from. I would definitely buy this item again if the need arose for another radio. I thought about getting a satellite radio, but with all the turmoil with that and the subscription fees I was not up for that. We now have good music and not all the repeats from the CD player over and over. Within a couple of minutes, I had internet stations playing loud and clear.
This "radio" fit the need. I was able to find and preset a few stations that fit our office ambiance. It was easy to set up and picked up my Linksys router immediately.
It take a little getting used to, and it took a while to find what the range was, but with a firmware update and enhanced DSL (7.5Mbps), it is working flawlessly. I also use it to stream Pandora stationsit works very well and eliminates the ads.
For those who complain about the range, it is probably a problem with your router or bandwidth rather than with the radio. I used to be a shortwave radio user, but now with all the stations that have discontinued their shortwave broadcasts, this radio is definitely the way to go
For those who complain about the clicking noise, I agree that it pretty muich eliminates this as bed-side radio, but since it has no alarm, it doesn't make sense to have it there anyway. I have owned this radio for about 5 months now, and am very pleased with it.
The time I found the noise most annaying is when the radio is turned off, but now I have the radio on a power switch which allows me to kill power to it when not in use. I take off one star for this strange noisewhat could be causing it.
It works fine, because the radio automatically resets to the correct time once you turn it on again.
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