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Insignia HD Bookshelf system at Best Buy

Chad-Stevens

Chad-Stevens

I had posted this earlier but got no feedback as it got lost in the middle of another thread.

Has anyone had any experience with the Insignia HD radio (Best Buy's private label) http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8464663&type=product&id=1184768163934

I've gone to look at it twice and both times talked myself out of it. The display at my local BB had no antenna hooked up, and I couldn't figure out how to tune it without the remote control, which was of course nowhere to be found. The sales guy wasn't much help either, but he was certain that you could load in a DVD-ROM filled with MP3's and WMA's and play them, a feature that interested me.
 
This unit debuted last fall and there was either a thread here kind of "reviewing" it or else the comments were in a more general thread. IIRC the consensus was the Insignia unit was "okay" but that it had several objectionable characteristics. I seem to recall the users didn't like the fact that it could only be used with the remote (no local functions on the unit) and that its response to control inputs was balky and slow. It apparently took several seconds to respond to station or mode/input changes. Sound quality was acceptable but not outstanding, build quality was semi-cheesy and it showed the usual HD deafness to digital signals.

I personally visited local Best Buy locations and have yet to actually see one of these. Last trip there were a couple of the Sony units (including an open-box return) and a shelf space labeled for the Insignia unit but no radios on display. Sales personnel couldn't recall ever seeing one.
 
Chad-Stevens said:
I had posted this earlier but got no feedback as it got lost in the middle of another thread.

Has anyone had any experience with the Insignia HD radio (Best Buy's private label) http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8464663&type=product&id=1184768163934

I've gone to look at it twice and both times talked myself out of it. The display at my local BB had no antenna hooked up, and I couldn't figure out how to tune it without the remote control, which was of course nowhere to be found. The sales guy wasn't much help either, but he was certain that you could load in a DVD-ROM filled with MP3's and WMA's and play them, a feature that interested me.
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Here is the thread from last fall: http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,83452.0.html

Unless you get a really good price, I'd wait for the next gen of chips to to work into sets later this year.

Lino
 
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