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Roberts Gemini 45 DAB FM RDS Digital Radio - Black
 
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Roberts Gemini 45 DAB FM RDS Digital Radio - Black

by Roberts
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
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Technical Details

  • Roberts Radio DAB/FM Radio
  • FM/DAB Wavebands
  • FM RDS Station Name Display
  • 9 Station Presets Including Favourite Station Button
  • Easy To Read 16 X 2 Character LCD Display
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Product details

  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 14 x 7.5 cm ; 1.2 Kg
  • Boxed-product Weight: 1.4 Kg
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  • Item model number: RD45B
  • ASIN: B000TDX2SA
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 10 July 2007
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,677 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
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216 of 217 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Little Radio, 9 Sep 2008
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L. Amer (Wiltshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roberts Gemini 45 DAB FM RDS Digital Radio - Black (Electronics)
This is an nifty little DAB radio. We have it in the kitchen and the reception is extremely good on all the major stations (plus a few extra ones I do not really listen to!). It can pick up all of the BBC stations; sport is especially well catered for on all of the Radio 5 stations (crystal clear, without the Medium Wave crackle and pop), 6 Music is a brilliant alternative station for people who are serious about their music.
The sound from such a small radio has a nice tone and it can be turned up to a surprisingly loud volume without distortion. The display panel is limited but still informative e.g. it displays programme title, programme information, "song now playing", news and, if your tuned into sport, it even displays the cricket scores and football results!
For the price, I would highly recommend this as a first DAB radio or one for the kitchen/bedroom.
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84 of 85 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Quality No Frills Mono DAB Radio, 4 Dec 2009
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Brian Newbould (North Yorkshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roberts Gemini 45 DAB FM RDS Digital Radio - Black (Electronics)
I purchased this radio for use in the bedroom. I required a compact DAB radio that would sit comfortably on a small bedside cabinet. Its dimensions fitted the bill to a tee. I also needed DAB access without having to switch the (Freeview) tv on.

The initial set-up and controls are simplicity itself and most appreciated by someone who wishes to 'plug-in and play' without a detailed cover to cover study of the manual. Controls are simple and effective, aerial rotates, rotary volume control is super-smooth, accurate and progressive; another 'plus' for a 'bedroom' radio.

Whilst our tv/fm reception is strong our digital signals are 'not as', furthermore I have heard that the north east is notorious for weak digital signals with North Yorkshire also being the last county in the country to go fully digital?? Our new-ish mini hi-fi in the kitchen can only receive 'talksport' on DAB so I was rather concerned about this signal reception aspect. I need not have been. Yes, positioning of the aerial is critical but once you have spent a bit of time sussing it out it's in our experience perfectly fine. BBC Radio 6, 7 (now 4-Extra) and World Service the main stations we listen to on DAB are fine as are the usual 'strong' fm ones. Obviously signal reception is entirely down to your exact location and the radios capabilities which in out instance were more than up-to the job.

The tone of the radio whilst slightly varying staion-to-station (because of the various microphones used?) is good. I expected a Roberts radio to provide a 'neutral' mellow and refined sound biased towards speech given such a 'smaller' radio. The RD-45 certainly achieves this whilst also coping surprisingly well with higher (not high!) volumes of music too. Considering its modest size and thus limited parameters its balance is spot-on.

It has a recessed carry 'grip' at the rear in addition to the battery compartment which I guess I will never open and the usual phones and line out jacks.

The design and gentle curvatured shape is pleasing to the eye whilst at the same time being suitably restrained though strongly and wrongly it must be said suggesting a twin speaker radio. I wonder how many will fall for that 'suggested' assumption?

To sum up; this is a pleasing DAB radio in a traditional vein being presented in a stylish yet consevative modern case. Its absolutely ideal for Question Time, The Moral Maze, Money Box, The Comedy Controller, Pick Of The Week et'al but also puts in a most respectable performance when listening to music be it your local MOR BBC station, in my instance 'York/North Yorkshire', BBC Radio 2 Classic FM or Desert Island Discs and so forth. It is a little expensive for what you get but as with all quality items in life its perhaps best to pay that little bit more for something that 'little bit better'?
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 16 Dec 2010
This review is from: Roberts Gemini 45 DAB FM RDS Digital Radio - Black (Electronics)
I bought this radio after reading the positive reviews above and was thoroughly disappointed.

The radio is *very* sensitive to movement, unlike other digital radios I have bought and has trouble keeping a strong enough signal. This is not a problem with reception in my area because other digital radios in the same house work fine.

Another problem is, the radio picks up lots of stations which in then tells you aren't available because the signal is too weak. You tune in with auto-tune, and it tells you "station not available" - this is very frustrating, if the signal isn't strong enough, it would be better to ignore that station completely. I tried doing a "deep-scan" tune but this didn't help at all.

The radio seems well constructed and the sound is pretty good for a small radio, but the reception is very disappointing in my experience.
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