A day after receiving the Panasonic RF-888 I did an outside reception test. My first impressions were positive inside my office, so I wasn’t surprised to find that AM and FM was superb, as superior as my testing of the Sony 5900 and the Panasonic RF-2200.
On FM, weak stations such as 89.3, and especially 88.9, came in crystal clear with no background noise.
On AM, the weakest station, 710, came in with no birdy noise.
The speaker is huge and will blast your ears so from close range I had to barely turn up the volume. My RF-888 will easily fill the living room, and it will probably grace the side coffee table for some time.
As a living room radio, the 888 will need an adapter and a regular reader Paul, who also sent me the owner’s manual on PDF, was kind enough to recommend the Regulated and Filtered 6VDC 300mA Adapter from Radio Shack.
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