Review on 📻 Sangean HDT-20 HD Radio/FM-Stereo/AM Component Tuner Black: Elevate Your Audio Experience by Yolanda Baca

If you're looking to buy a component HD AM/FM tuner (and don't want to spend a lot of money replacing the entire receiver) then this is almost the only choice on the market (at the time of this writing). review) , so you'll probably end up buying it. It's perfectly adequate: the tuner is decent, and it's easy to set up, and reception is good - ordinary FM stations pull at it. which my non-HD receiver can barely see. It has both optical and RCA outputs and even a headphone jack, so it's easy to connect to almost anything. Assuming it's reliable (I've only had it a week and so far so good), I'm glad I have it. This satisfies my desire to access many local HD stations that are not available on the regular FM band. But. it has no competitors and if there were any I think Sangean would be in big trouble because there are a number of UI issues that are annoying and anyone else making a similar product could easily fix: - 10 FM -Presets? But that's not all.- The remote control only works at short range and must be placed directly in front of the device. You might as well get up and press the buttons on the unit instead of using the remote at all, because if you're sitting more than 10 feet away you'll likely have to constantly walk halfway to the remote. Is it like a clock radio? Unnecessary and annoying. The clock is troublesome to set and useless. I want the display to turn off completely when I'm not using the tuner. The display is too small to show all the information the stations are broadcasting and is unreadable from a distance, turning gray after a moment. It doesn't make any changes, so it's useless unless it's set to maximum brightness all the time. - The tuning wheel is not for the impatient. As other reviewers have pointed out, it's not sensitive to how *fast* the wheel is spinning, just that the wheel is spinning. This means that spinning the wheel slowly has the same effect as spinning it quickly, and that effect is to change the setting in a certain direction at a certain speed. So if you're at 88.9 and want to manually adjust to 106.7, it takes 15 seconds (I've measured this several times) to spin the wheel. Given that you only have ten presets, this is impractical if you want to listen to more than ten. (Hold the setup button faster, but less accurate - easier to miss) - No up/down button to scroll through presets. Pooh. It really looks like Sangean took the electronics from one of their desktop radios (the Sangean HDR-18), removed the speaker and amplifier, added RCA and optical outputs and put it in a different case. and raise the price! So - it works and I'm glad I have it, but I wish there was competition.