I love mine! I got one this summer, use it with Computer Speakers off an old desktop, in my bed room as i sleep, and with a tape-input in my truck, but wanted a boombox version of an HD player for any room in the house, or outside, but no...no Wal-Mart or Target carries ANY HD radio. so i went on eBay,and BAM, these are CHEAP!! so, what the heck, i got another of the exact same, and i can hook it up in the far room and play between the two across my house. love mine!
i bought one about a month ago and the sound just went out.
It will turn on it will work and everything but when you plug in headphones it doesn't play sound.
The signal bars show up at it does pick up stations in HD but it just won't play sound. I tried reseting it and everything but it doesn't work please help.
You can use anything, just as long as the cord is about 1 meter (about 3 feet) long. Any longer or shorter, it'll still work, but you'll lose sensitivity.
i live in canada and live 50 miles north of buffallo ny we dont have hd radio here but with this insignia i can get the hd stations and the sound quality is great when i get to a good location high enough its worth the climb , amazing we dont have this technolgy here im not paying for sat radio when i can get digital radio for free
I got this radio one week after it came out. The reception of this little device is exceptional. It receives all the stations that my Dual car HD radio can get. Sounds is great although you can hear the sound compression used. I'm in Tampa, by the way. You do need a good length earbuds. I dont recommend using the ones that came with it as it is uncomfortable. As for using it in the car, it does work. I have mines hooked up to a car-tape adapter. Obviously, you are not going to get the same.....
Once you go past 3 feet of cable, the reception gets compormised, unless your station is on the lower half of the FM scale, the larger wire does work better. It barely worked with my long cabled headphones in this demo, much better with the earbuds.
Being near the merto area, you can get away with the car usage. Out here, it's drop-out city.
WROR is hit-and-miss. Out here, most of the Prudential Tower stations don't work on any HD radio. This one CAN do it, albeit it's very finicky as to where it works.
i just bought this today and it gets great reception. the station i listen to has got a second station on hd. in just the regular reception without hd picks up station from more than 60 miles away in another city.great device. the only down side is the battery is ganna be hard to replace when it stops holding charge.
true. they make them like this so you can buy another instead of just replacing the battery. also its kinda funny when something this small can get better reception than a home system. i even used headphones like yours but with a 25ft cord. great sound with the big headset. sound diffrence right when the radio switches to hd. sometimes it'll make like an echo during the switching process.
The echo is on the station's end. The analog signal is suposed to have a 5 second delay, to match the buffer time needed for the digital portion to kick in. If the timing is wrong, you get an echo. One station used to repeat the last 5 seconds when switching over, because they didn't apply the delay on the analog side of things.
I needed to replace the Superadio III I have, because the tuner craps out over time, and why not make it digital, and portable to boot? The one thing that sucks is that the earbuds take away a lot of the digital sound quality, but there usually is a difference when it switches from regular FM, to the digital part of the signal.
I love mine! I got one this summer, use it with Computer Speakers off an old desktop, in my bed room as i sleep, and with a tape-input in my truck, but wanted a boombox version of an HD player for any room in the house, or outside, but no...no Wal-Mart or Target carries ANY HD radio. so i went on eBay,and BAM, these are CHEAP!! so, what the heck, i got another of the exact same, and i can hook it up in the far room and play between the two across my house. love mine!
BarbieBoy1997 4 months ago
@BarbieBoy1997
It's proof that good things DO come in small packages, as the old saying goes.
georgef551 4 months ago
i have one but no sound go out :(
GATILLERO99 6 months ago
Hey how much does does it cost and nice review thanks
TheLovethatkills 6 months ago
@TheLovethatkills
This goes for about $50.
georgef551 6 months ago
i bought one about a month ago and the sound just went out.
It will turn on it will work and everything but when you plug in headphones it doesn't play sound.
The signal bars show up at it does pick up stations in HD but it just won't play sound. I tried reseting it and everything but it doesn't work please help.
skaterenvy1 7 months ago
@skaterenvy1
Try other headsets, especially a pair known to work?
Other than that, I haven't the foggiest, except see if the volume is all the way down.
georgef551 7 months ago
Replay by iyaz! that's the first song that plays. it's old but it's beast.
The12hitman 10 months ago
LOL When you said WAAF I thought to myself "Awesome I would love to hear some Opie and Anthony!!!"
RetroGamerr1991 11 months ago
@RetroGamerr1991
Talk about throwbacks (Op-Op, Ak-Ak). :)
georgef551 11 months ago
@georgef551 They're even better now on Sattelite. Anyway does the HD only work with the provided headphones or can I use my skullcandy earbuds.
RetroGamerr1991 11 months ago
@RetroGamerr1991
You can use anything, just as long as the cord is about 1 meter (about 3 feet) long. Any longer or shorter, it'll still work, but you'll lose sensitivity.
georgef551 11 months ago
works good in the car if you have a AUX in jack like mine :)
Techraingeek 1 year ago
@Techraingeek
Live near the stations, I take it.
georgef551 1 year ago
i live in canada and live 50 miles north of buffallo ny we dont have hd radio here but with this insignia i can get the hd stations and the sound quality is great when i get to a good location high enough its worth the climb , amazing we dont have this technolgy here im not paying for sat radio when i can get digital radio for free
pixar5 1 year ago
@pixar5
Too bad your country didn't jump on the bandwaggon.
Does Canada have the same FM range?
georgef551 1 year ago
I got this radio one week after it came out. The reception of this little device is exceptional. It receives all the stations that my Dual car HD radio can get. Sounds is great although you can hear the sound compression used. I'm in Tampa, by the way. You do need a good length earbuds. I dont recommend using the ones that came with it as it is uncomfortable. As for using it in the car, it does work. I have mines hooked up to a car-tape adapter. Obviously, you are not going to get the same.....
gotflava1 1 year ago
@gotflava1
Once you go past 3 feet of cable, the reception gets compormised, unless your station is on the lower half of the FM scale, the larger wire does work better. It barely worked with my long cabled headphones in this demo, much better with the earbuds.
Being near the merto area, you can get away with the car usage. Out here, it's drop-out city.
georgef551 1 year ago
what channels can you get from boston? does 105.7 WROR come in?
Firebirrd85 1 year ago
@Firebirrd85
WROR is hit-and-miss. Out here, most of the Prudential Tower stations don't work on any HD radio. This one CAN do it, albeit it's very finicky as to where it works.
georgef551 1 year ago
can it work with car radio?
plakatjohn 1 year ago
@plakatjohn
If you can plug an MP3 player in, yes. Make sure the cable is about 3 feet, for optimum results.
Being digital, I'd wager it's not going to be very stable in a moving vehicle. If DTV's can't work, then this probably doesn't in that sense.
georgef551 1 year ago
Glad it's working well for you! There seems to be a lot of people that get great reception off of it.
Glad this was helpful to you.
georgef551 2 years ago
i just bought this today and it gets great reception. the station i listen to has got a second station on hd. in just the regular reception without hd picks up station from more than 60 miles away in another city.great device. the only down side is the battery is ganna be hard to replace when it stops holding charge.
bradmann85 2 years ago
That's because, you can't replace it, or I think you can't. It was so easy to use, I never bothered to look at the directions. :)
This thing got stations in HD, with the earbuds, the big HD radios I had could not get, hooked into my roof antenna.
Insignia got it right!
georgef551 2 years ago
true. they make them like this so you can buy another instead of just replacing the battery. also its kinda funny when something this small can get better reception than a home system. i even used headphones like yours but with a 25ft cord. great sound with the big headset. sound diffrence right when the radio switches to hd. sometimes it'll make like an echo during the switching process.
bradmann85 2 years ago
The echo is on the station's end. The analog signal is suposed to have a 5 second delay, to match the buffer time needed for the digital portion to kick in. If the timing is wrong, you get an echo. One station used to repeat the last 5 seconds when switching over, because they didn't apply the delay on the analog side of things.
georgef551 2 years ago
you sure get all the cool toys george!
Delaypat 2 years ago
I needed to replace the Superadio III I have, because the tuner craps out over time, and why not make it digital, and portable to boot? The one thing that sucks is that the earbuds take away a lot of the digital sound quality, but there usually is a difference when it switches from regular FM, to the digital part of the signal.
georgef551 2 years ago