Sangean WFR-1 WIFI Internet Radio Review

I've lived with this Sangean wifi clock radio since it became available and here's what I think:

The sound quality is excellent (for a clock radio, lol). Very rich, not tinny, good bass response, clear and tweakable. Obviously the stereo seperation is nil because the speakers are just inches apart.

Frontier Silicon is the WiFi radio portal for this Sangean model. It's very reliable. It would be nice if they had links to the radio stations on their website though.

The Sangean is of very limited use to me as a "media player", because it will only play MP3 files and WMA files. I have nearly 8000 WAV files on my hard drive which this Sangean will not play and only a handful of MP3 files, so for me it is worthless as a media player.

The price is a major disadvantage... 'nuf said.

Realistically speaking, everything this radio does, your computer can do better, and do it for free. All you need is Realplayer (you can even record radio for up to 8 hours with Realplayer) and Windows Media Player(both free)and an okay set of external speakers. It's fair to compare the sound quality you will get out of this Sangean with average quality external computer speakers I'd say.

If you love radio, check out vtuner.com for a free wifi radio portal. All of the stations are there and in addition there are links to the stations.

I'm not sure if there is software to make a computer funtion as an alarm clock but you can always buy one for [...].

So after all is said and done, the best thing about this radio for me is that it frees me from my computer (but of course,uses bandwidth). If I had it to do over again, I'm not sure what I'd do.

Buy it here now!