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Roberts RDK-2 Radio

by Roberts
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

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Technical Details

  • Undercupboard radio perfect for space saving in the kitchen
  • DAB/FM radio
  • Touch sensor panel
  • PausePlus feature - don't miss a minute of your favourite programme

Product details

  • Boxed-product Weight: 1.8 Kg
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  • Item model number: RDK-2
  • ASIN: B001HB62V2
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 3 Oct 2008
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 35,542 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

The Roberts RDK-2 is a compact DAB radio perfect for the compact kitchen or for those who wish to minimise surface clutter. This DAB/FM RDS digital kitchen radio with sensor touch controls fits neatly onto the underside of your kitchen cabinet. Simply connect the brackets (supplied) to the kitchen unit and attached the radio. Packed full of features this radio has 10 station presets, an instant record to SD card facility, PausePlus enabling you to pause and rewind live radio and sensor touch controls. * * Sensor touch controls * Easy to clean control panel * Built-in under cupboard fixing bracket * Egg timer * DAB, FM or SD card timer alarm * DAB/FM RDS wavebands * 10 station presets * FM RDS station name display * Instant record to SD card * PausePlus and rewind functions * Playback of MP3/iPod via auxiliary input socket * MP2/MP3 playback via SD card * Easy to read 16 x 2 character * LCD display * Amber display backlight * Size (mm) * 300 (w) x 65 (h) x 175 (d). * Weight 1.4kg


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21 Reviews
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4 star:
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3 star:
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2 star:
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4.0 out of 5 stars (21 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent - best kitchen radio so far, 12 Feb 2009
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Dr. Paul Linford (Norwich, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roberts RDK-2 Radio (Electronics)
Hats off to Roberts, they have created a really good radio here. The sound is good; it has (for the DAB only) a pause-whilst-the-phone-rings feature; all the controls are touch-sensitive so it is damp-finger proof, essential in a kitchen; plays MP3s from an SD card; very easy to fit. Turn it on and it just works.

There are one or two things I find irritating;
* The display shows the time (and date) when the radio is turned off - but when the radio is on it shows the tuned station and other programme information but you can't make it show the time (perhaps I have missed this in the menus but I don't think you can).
* It plays MP3 files but for some reason they have to be in a directory called RADIO on the SD card. It would be much nicer if you could choose any folder then you could have your favourite tracks for, say, WASHING UP or COOKING. You get the idea.
* You can't ask it to have the display back-light on when the radio is off - so you can't read the time unless the lights are on.

These are small things but the reason it gets four stars instead of five; perhaps the MK2? It is generally great and the SD card is a much better idea than similar products that play CDs - CDs are not for the kitchen and cooks with wet or sticky hands.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent product, could do with more instruction in using the SD card, 24 Jan 2009
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Stan (Gloucestershire, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Roberts RDK-2 Radio (Electronics)
Firstly very swift delivery, arrived the day after ordered. The unit itself is lovely and does exactly what you want it to do, it fits under a kitchen cupboard and still has great sound from DAB, FM and the SD card.
The one area that Roberts could have assisted better -particularly considering their likely customer demographic - is how to get the music onto the SD card in a playable format. Music is stored on my PC as WMA but needs to be on mp2 or mp3 format. Its a simple enough procedure once you know how. Type something like music conversion software into google and you will have the choice of a bunch of free conversion programmes which you choose one of, then download it, then convert your chosen music files. Your SD card needs to be formatted in the RDK-2 and the converted music files need to be saved in the RADIO folder.
Hope this helps.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Nice idea but annoying interface, 22 Oct 2009
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M. Dowle (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roberts RDK-2 Radio (Electronics)
1. As has been said by others the SD card is a great idea BUT all your files have to be in one folder called RADIO. The display says something like "VARTRA01.MP3" i.e. the old 8.3 DOS file names you can't change (or at least I only know how to change the long filenames on the PC). You can only scroll (slowly) through each track one by one. There is no way to skip to the next album. I phoned Roberts and confirmed these points are correct. Also when you switch off and on again later, it starts playing from the first track on the SD, not where you left off. Fine if you always want to listen to the same tracks in the same order!

2. The DAB stations take 3-4 seconds to tune in each time, even though each is on a preset and we have almost perfect DAB reception according to the radio itself.

3. The buttons don't always respond and you have to press them again to get a response. The buttons are wipe clean flat surface - good idea for the kitchen but in practice they don't always respond. To be fair, when I phoned Roberts they said it sounded like mine might be faulty.

4. The way it fixes under the cupboard is a good idea as you can adjust to fit flush so there are no gaps for dirt to build up in. However it slightly rocks when you press the buttons due to the way the fixing is designed. An easy fix though would be to glue it in position to stop the slight rocking.

We have returned the product as it was too annoying to put up with.
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