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Your cart is empty.SANGEAN DT-160 AM/FM-stereo pocket radio. With the DT-160 you'll enjoy over 100 hours of listening to your favorite programs (at normal listening levels) with 2 AA batteries (not included)
L. D. Neubauer
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2025
The DT-160 is really easy to get working, out of the box. I am not an audiophile or an AM DXer. I don't care if I get a slight fuzz-out on FM sometimes. I just want to listen to local voice and music radio stations with a reliable signal and decent sound while I am out walking my dogs or strolling around the Champlain Valley in far-northeast upstate NY. This radio is GREAT! It's very lightweight (less mass than a deck of cards) and easily fits in a pocket. I can pick up all of the local AM stations easily and even more FM stations, including one or two from Montreal (60 miles away). The DSP tuning will give you the best of both worlds - excellent selectivity while not sacrificing on sensitivity. Obviously, greater elevation will give you an advantage, but I have no complaints in our little rural city of Plattsburgh. Some folks don't like the headphones, which are the size of pennies and sit in the crook of each ear but I find them comfortable and practical because I am just walking, not bouncing around or doing strenuous exercise. Glad to recommend this product! Bonne chance et bonne réussite
runsonsun
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2025
Size is nice, it's smaller than the Sangean DT 200X and reception is similar which means it's about as good as it gets. Volume control is on the side and hard to get to if it's in a pocket. The on/off switch for the lock button is extra difficult to use. I like the 90 minute auto shutoff feature which is also similar to the DT-200X. It costs about $10 less than the DT-200X. It doesn't have a speaker but most users are probably using wired ear buds.
Chef-Nicole
Reviewed in Canada on January 4, 2024
I have tried many different types of radios at my workplace, this one has just as good of reception as larger more expensive radios. Very good sound.
TEO CHEE KOON
Reviewed in Singapore on July 19, 2021
easy ,simple to use. long battery life.
David Bird
Reviewed in Australia on December 28, 2020
Very hard to tune, can't fine tune it
Cliente de
Reviewed in Mexico on January 21, 2020
Un articulo muy bueno, cumple su funcion, el material muy resistente y de buena calidad.
NoCoBill
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2018
I wanted to replace my trusty old Sony Walkman AM/FM analog pocket radio with a modern digital one. I was amazed when searching Amazon how inexpensive digital pocket radios were. I ordered one for just $17.99. It was OK, but it had a permanently attached big loop of a wrist strap. I was about to cut it off when I realized the wrist strap had a wire inside of it. It was the FM antenna! That wasn't going to work for me, so back it went.My next choice was a $12.99 digital pocket radio. The audio quality was terrible. A very noticeable and very annoying hiss permeated the audio.Then I remembered the old maxim, you get what you pay for. So I deicded to stick with brand names I knew and to crowbar open my wallet and pry out a few more simoleons.I ended up with this Sangen DT-160 as my choice. Wow. This is a nice radio. It has a quality feel, quality construction and a quality look. The sound quality is great. The Dynamic Bass Boost feature sounds terrific on FM. On AM talk radio, it softens the sound just a bit.Sensitivity is outstanding. I live 70 miles from a major city and am able to pull in stations that my old analog radio couldn't.The display backlight is nice for nighttime listening while in bed.As nice as this radio is, it has a few shortcomings. Whenever you turn it on, it will turn off automatically in 90 minutes. But, when turning the radio on, if you hold the on button down for two seconds, the auto-off feature is disabled (radio beeps to indicate the change). I wish this was the other way around. And the 90 minutes is fixed. You can't adjust that. So it's 90 minutes or nothing.I wish it had more memories than five per band. Although there are two FM bands with five memories each, but I listen mostly to AM.Scan tuning is a little touchy. If you're on 630 AM and there's a station at 650 AM, you'll probably miss the station on 650.Despite these shortcomings, this radio is a keeper!UPDATE: This radio pulls in AM stations from over 1,000 miles away! I'm located in Colorado and have picked up stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, El Paso, San Antonio, Minneapolis, Chicago, Saskatoon and Melfort Saskatchewan, Nashville and Louisville, the last two both over 1,000 miles distant! I should add that this reception was at night and not during the day.
ReaderHal
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2017
I have owned a few pocket portables in the past, but this one is the best. Most of the others had a built-in speaker that sounded tinny but was fine for talk, baseball games and similar programming. All I've done AM-wise is make sure that works. I bought this radio for FM duty, and couldn't be more pleased. With one exception, which is this - the bass boost is too aggressive. Probably many people like that, but the problem is that with the boost off, the bass is too lean. So I opt to listen with boost, mostly. However, stations come in so cleanly, and the radio sounds so good, I can live with the overblown bass boost. Would have been nice to have at least two levels of boost to choose.The other small radio that I own which has no speaker is the little Sony wrist-band model, notable for how well that wrist-band functions, but its FM performance is noisy with all signals, however strong. Nowhere near this league.Of course the DT-160 uses current technology DSP which makes a big difference in reception. My home has multiple reception issues due to terrain, power lines and a lot of electronic devices. Tuners have a hard time in here. This radio pulls in the locals cleanly, as it should, but many models fail to do this well. I really wasn't expecting that, so I am very pleased.I may return later and edit this review to address AM performance eventually, but the truth is that I have several other radios (a bit larger) for my AM dxing, and I don't expect this to be a strong AM contender based on other reviews elsewhere. If you are looking for a small radio for listening to music on FM radio then this one will be hard to beat - and its price is very reasonable given its excellent performance.Just remember that your headphone wires are the antenna and if you do hear any noise due to a very weak signal, reposition the wire. I bought it in white along with a pair of Sony MDRZX100 headphone in white (also from Amazon) for a nice coordinated look. Just got the radio yesterday and love it already. Small, light and functionally outstanding, so what's not to like?UPDATE - I've used this radio a lot for three-and-a-half years now, and it still looks, feels, operates and sounds like new. I'm an FM-only user... well, a rare ballgame on AM once or twice a year. But this radio is all about good stereo FM sound, whether via headphone or jacked into a garage system. In addition to good reception and sound, you get a radio that runs a long, long time on a pair of batteries. I love this model and recommend it highly.
Otto
Reviewed in Mexico on June 12, 2017
Estoy muy contento, buena recepción muy práctico y portable para llevar con uno siempre, sirve para toda ocasión, fácil de programar
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