Review on AUNA KR-200 SI Internet Kitchen Radio - Wi-Fi, Spotify Support, 10 Station Presets & More! by Briceston Criss

Overall, I am pretty happy with this internet radio. It exceeded my expectations in several ways. First, the sound quality is much better than I expected it to be, probably because most of the underside of the radio appears to be one very large speaker. The tone is good, about what you should expect at this price point. Now, you have to understand that a lot of internet radio stations "broadcast" highly compressed audio to keep their bandwidth costs down. If you are expecting audiophile quality out of a 96k stream, you are going to be disappointed. But that is not the radio's fault. For the intended purpose, to have some music on in the kitchen or to listen to the news or a podcast while doing the dishes, it works fine.Once you have everything programmed in, the interface on the radio itself is fairly straightforward, as are the controls. The little screen, though hardly hi-resolution, works well. And when it is off, the screen turns into a clock. They also give you a remote control in case you want to adjust it from across the room.Now for the negatives:Setting it up for the first time is going to take you a while. You have to go on this website with a kind of clunky interface and set up your channels for the internet radio, podcasts and so forth. Even though you are doing this in a website instead of on the radio itself, expect this to take you a lot longer than you think it should, and to be a bit annoying, just because the website/interface is very basic. Fortunately, you really only have to do this once, because once you set up your various presets, which you can basically group into virtual folders on the radio, you never really need to go back to this set up website again unless you want to add more or different internet presets. It appears that the radio is dependent on this free site to maintain all of your internet presets etc, which makes me worry about whether the internet part of the radio will eventually be bricked if that site ever goes away or changes. But for now it works well, and you can group your podcasts together with the internet radio stations, so if you want like your NPR stations together with your NPR podcasts, that is easy to do.The mounting bracket is very basic and simple. However, if you are mounting it to a kitchen cabinet, you will likely have issues because they don't include any way to easily mount to the most common cabinet design in the U.S., which is where the front of the cabinet overhangs the cabinet bottom about 3/4 of an inch. I ended up cutting a block of scrap wood the right size to bring the bottom of the cabinet flush with the front of the cabinet, attaching that to the bottom of the cabinet with screws and glue, then screwing the mounting plate for the radio into that. So if you are reasonably handy, you can figure out a way to get this mounted under your cabinet so it will look right. If you aren't handy, this is not going to be a fun thing to install yourself. They really should provide some spacers and redesign the mounting plate so it can be easily attached to the underside of a normal kitchen cabinet without having to do all this. It could probably be done with about 50 cents worth of parts.