I am very active in a Chinese radio discussion board, I am lucky
enough to be one of the only few people who got a chance to review the
engineering model of VAL R-301 radio. The biggest surprise to me is
the sound, it has a very warm and tube-like sound only heard from
vintage European radios, the bass is
relaxed yet powerful, better than the tight bass available from
Tivoli.

For features, it has FM/AM band, FM stereo available from a satellite
speaker, and a real mechanical timer!

Yes, I know it doesn't have Short Wave but if you do not listen to SW
and want a good sound, R-301 is not a bad choice.

I have created a group on Yahoo and put a few pictures there, if you
are interested, you can have a look at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Valradios/

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:50:58 -0700, wrote:

I am very active in a Chinese radio discussion board, I am lucky
enough to be one of the only few people who got a chance to review the
engineering model of VAL R-301 radio. The biggest surprise to me is
the sound, it has a very warm and tube-like sound only heard from
vintage European radios, the bass is
relaxed yet powerful, better than the tight bass available from
Tivoli.

For features, it has FM/AM band, FM stereo available from a satellite
speaker, and a real mechanical timer!

Yes, I know it doesn't have Short Wave but if you do not listen to SW
and want a good sound, R-301 is not a bad choice.

I have created a group on Yahoo and put a few pictures there, if you
are interested, you can have a look at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Valradios/

Sorry to hear you are having trouble shifting these things, although
looking at the picture I can't say I'm that surprised.

You might want to dump the on Ebay and see if anyone bites.

d

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On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:50:58 -0700, wrote:

I am very active in a Chinese radio discussion board, I am lucky
enough to be one of the only few people who got a chance to review the
engineering model of VAL R-301 radio. The biggest surprise to me is
the sound, it has a very warm and tube-like sound only heard from
vintage European radios, the bass is
relaxed yet powerful, better than the tight bass available from
Tivoli.

For features, it has FM/AM band, FM stereo available from a satellite
speaker, and a real mechanical timer!

Yes, I know it doesn't have Short Wave but if you do not listen to SW
and want a good sound, R-301 is not a bad choice.

I have created a group on Yahoo and put a few pictures there, if you
are interested, you can have a look at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Valradios/

Sorry to hear you are having trouble shifting these things, although
looking at the picture I can't say I'm that surprised.

You might want to dump the on Ebay and see if anyone bites.

d

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http://www.pearce.uk.com

Interesting that no price is mentioned. I wonder how much a 1955-styled FM
radio would go for? Anything will sell if cheap enough I suppose.

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wrote:
I am very active in a Chinese radio discussion board, I am lucky
enough to be one of the only few people who got a chance to review the
engineering model of VAL R-301 radio.

A seller reviewing a product? Lot of use, that.

The biggest surprise to me is the sound, it has a very warm and
tube-like sound only heard from vintage European radios, the bass is
relaxed yet powerful, better than the tight bass available from Tivoli.

So basically the cheapest speaker you could find?

For features, it has FM/AM band, FM stereo available from a satellite
speaker, and a real mechanical timer!

Wow. With key to wind it?

Yes, I know it doesn't have Short Wave but if you do not listen to SW
and want a good sound, R-301 is not a bad choice.

Not a good one either by your description.

I have created a group on Yahoo and put a few pictures there, if you
are interested, you can have a look at
http://groups.yahoo.****e/group/Valradios/

Even Keith makes better looking stuff than that. ;-)

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Dave Plowman London SW
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wrote:

I am very active in a Chinese radio discussion board, I am lucky
enough to be one of the only few people who got a chance to review the
engineering model of VAL R-301 radio. The biggest surprise to me is
the sound, it has a very warm and tube-like sound only heard from
vintage European radios, the bass is
relaxed yet powerful, better than the tight bass available from
Tivoli.

Table radios ?

Does anyone still use such things ?

Graham

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:28:17 GMT, Eeyore
wrote:

Table radios ?

Does anyone still use such things ?

I have several. A Roberts R983 which mainly functions as an alarm
clock in the bedroom these days, a Pure EVOKE-1XT which gives sterling
service in the kitchen, and the rather excellent EVOKE-1XT Marshall
Edition.

I also own a Tivoli Model One, however this suffers from frequency
drift (not as badly as my original which was replaced under warranty,
but still sufficiently to be annoying) and I have given up on it.
It sits in its box in a kitchen cupboard.

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Anthony Edwards

On 7 1 , 8 24 , Anthony Edwards
wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:28:17 GMT, Eeyore

wrote:
Table radios ?

Does anyone still use such things ?

I have several. A Roberts R983 which mainly functions as an alarm
clock in the bedroom these days, a Pure EVOKE-1XT which gives sterling
service in the kitchen, and the rather excellent EVOKE-1XT Marshall
Edition.

I also own a Tivoli Model One, however this suffers from frequency
drift (not as badly as my original which was replaced under warranty,
but still sufficiently to be annoying) and I have given up on it.
It sits in its box in a kitchen cupboard.

--
Anthony Edwards


I have received an updated
engineering version of the R-301, based on mine and a
few other's feedback the engineer fine tuned a few
details and I found it sounds better to my ears. My
reference sysmtem is a Grundig T-9000 tuner, a Sansui
AU-D907G aplifier and a pair of Celestion MP1
speakers. Since I only got the control box of R-301 I
compared it in mono only, the bass and treble are set
to nutral position in the R-301 and the tone control
on AU-D907 is disabled. Compared to the reference
system, R-301 has the same transparent sound, bass is
effortless, mellow and warm in the mid range, a little
bit darker in treble but details is still present. The
engineer commented he deliberately made the treble
darker to give a vintage feeling, the tone control
will allow users to fine tune the sound.

In the reception side, R-301 received all local FM stations
clearly using the built-in attena, in AM band R-301
has good reception on local stations, background noise
is lower than a few modern portable radios I own.

wrote:
I am very active in a Chinese radio discussion board, I am lucky
enough to be one of the only few people who got a chance to review the
engineering model of VAL R-301 radio. The biggest surprise to me is
the sound, it has a very warm and tube-like sound only heard from
vintage European radios, the bass is
relaxed yet powerful, better than the tight bass available from
Tivoli.

For features, it has FM/AM band, FM stereo available from a satellite
speaker, and a real mechanical timer!

Yes, I know it doesn't have Short Wave but if you do not listen to SW
and want a good sound, R-301 is not a bad choice.

I have created a group on Yahoo and put a few pictures there, if you
are interested, you can have a look at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Valradios/

wrote:
I am very active in a Chinese radio discussion board,

SNIPPED

IT'S a crock of **** and no one will buy them, even good fm radios are hard
to sell these days.

As a matter of interest how many people have joined your forum ?

you could sell them on ebay sell most things on ebay christ you might even
make money