Philips Portable Radio RL384/94 with MW, SW & FM Band, 500mW RMS Sound Output, Telescopic Antenna, 4-Inch Loudspeaker, Powered by 3xR20 (4.5V DC) External DC Socket

Best quality

1.This product is made of cheap quality material. 2. Charger is not provided with box. 3. Also its not common port for charger (usb 2 or usb c) its difficult to get charger specific to this item. I had to return this item. Thanks for amazon for quick refund and providing return. Request to Amazon: Please don't sell D grade products.. Please have some listing criteria and also option to delist based on customer review.

This radio has great shortwave coverage from 13 meters to 90 meters, only the 11 and 120 meter bands are missing. No other large radio is available with this much coverage. The reception I found is quite good and stable. Reception is slightly better or more stable than smaller portable radios. The FM and MW is marginally better than my xhdata D808. SW reception is also excellent but is a bit difficult to tune because there are only 2 bands, having 7-9 bands on SW would have helped. This is all what is good about this radio. Now the not so good things are: Very poor finish, see how the antenna is attached bent in the pictures because of poor plastic cabinet used. Very cheap cabinet used and crude finish - I hope they don't export this with Made in India tag as it would leave a bad impression internationally. Even the cheap xhdata D219 has far better finish. Next the sound is loud but intolerable at moderately loud volumes. There is almost no bass from a 4 inch speaker and the treble is not sharp either. Makes a complete mashed up confused sound at moderate to high volumes. This is the biggest issue with this radio. I opened up the radio and replaced the speaker with a better one which improved the treble and clarity but the audio amp is delivering no bass at all so I couldn't fix that. The circuit is fully smd and I don't have the skills to mess with it. I have added some synthetic cotton inside the large and mostly empty cabinet to reduce internal reflections and clear up the midrange to some extent. It is a total misuse of a 4 inch speaker and large cabinet. Thirdly why use D cells? Simple AA could do and they could have gone for 4 AA cells. D cells are not widely available any more. I have added 2 led lamps and a switch to illuminate the tuner dial for night time use and it looks gorgeous at night - see attached picture. Also added external antenna port and headphone socket which were not provided. Still an overall good radio for the price and it is easy to use with large knobs and dial.

The radio is not getting FM. Only SW with single station it is giving out put. So i want to replace with i Bell brand. If you permit i can pay difference in cost. cost

1. Good look- retro type 2.Price generates a sense of value for money however had this product been priced around 1000 rupees it would have been better and could accommodate the demands of the actual radio users across rural and urban customers 3. Should provide a little better build quality of the body has to match up to the expectations raised by the current price 4. Should provide an electric adapter/cords facility along with the batteries 5. The radio stations of MW reminds of bygone era and such a pleasure to hear stations without the barge of unnecessary and disturbing ads like in FM stations 6. SW1 and SW2 should have more quality receptions probably due to lack of strong transmitters is not being used in it 7. Finally given the kind of amplification facilities it has the sound quality should be able to provide a good bass 8. Overall an excellent product

Three R20 big battery cost for Rs150 which will be used up within week or two. Reception is not clear at all plus no DC wire you have to visit the market and buy a wire separately which will cost another Rs 200 =time and fuel wastage. And after all that its of no use because we are unable to hear anything clearly

All of this is very good

Good product