LEMEGAM5P Internet Radio with CD Player for Home, WiFi Radio, FM Digital Radio, Bluetooth Speaker, Spotify Connect,35W Home Stereo System,USB Player,Dual Alarms Clock with OKTIV APP Control- Black

I got the LeMega M3+ pretty much as an extravagant birthday gift to self; after all, a computer can pull in internet radio stations. Yet I have discovered I really like this thing more than expected.A large number of radio stations are available, organized by genre or location, and you can search easily for ones you want. It's easy to save presets for the ones you like, and you can add new ones that aren't there - - as long as they aren't "Flash Player" stations (disappointed that Talk City 91FM in Trinidad can't play on it).The sound is great, and I like that there is both a headphone jack and a Line Out (from which you can record from it while still listening and changing the listening volume).The radio also receives FM; the tuner picks up a good number of stations. You can play things using Bluetooth or the Aux In jack (I have a computer connected to that to listen to stuff played on it), and the radio will play Spotify from a paid Spotify account. There are buttons on top of it to select your source, presets, and options, and there is also a very good remote that makes it easily to select source (FM, Internet Radio, Aux In, etc.) or a preset for a station, or to "thumb" through the large variety of stations on the internet that the radio can receive.It's certainly a good piece of equipment for listening, and it's kind of fun to look through all the stations on it and just try them out.

The Grace internet radio I had been using became a boat anchor when the company relied on to make connections disappeared. The Grace internet radios that still work are all sold out. I saw this model, and it looked like a real improvement--and it may eventually be.For some hours today I had a WiFi-connected clock, bought at a high price. With what I assume is an NNTP server inside, at least it will keep excellent time. The manual is a joke--under Section 3 we read "M3+ is easy to use." Hahahahaha! From a remark by one of the commenters here I learned that "STB" means "Standby". Other than in a diagram of the remote, "STB" is nowhere mentioned in the manual, and it seems essential. Likewise, "SRC" on the radio and remote means "Source" in the manual.The old Grace model had a remote that my wife used, while I accessed it directly on my side. This thing seems to require the remote at hand to make it work at all.Meanwhile, I will continue to battle it until it does what we need, all the while thinking about the engineer who wrote the manual and how I would like to beat him mercilessly about the neck and shoulders. ;-) I would like to read a company response, but I'm not holding my breath.Really, what this product needs is a searchable owner forum so we poor victims can ask questions and post answers among ourselves. I'll revise this review unless I have to return the product.UPDATE 26-5-2021: I was stuck because when exiting STB via remote it seemed to resume playing an internet radio station, but no sound. Cycling power worked, but that is not a feature, eh? Poking around, I determined that Internet Wizard does not care about WPA encryption, which I use. Manual configuration allows selection of WPA and repeating the password. Now it (usually) resumes normal play after exiting STB.I need to make this functional day-to-day without touching anything other than the radio. I can enter STB with a long press-hold on the top button, but that does not work for exiting STB. Only a remote button will do that. If you know how to exit STB with a radio touch, please respond in comment attached here. This cursed thing is still on probation.I have not yet begun to explore FM radio functionality. If that and internet radio both work, I do not care about the other stuff.UPDATE 1-6-2021: I give up. To exit STB and play an internet radio preset, press STB, the radio appears on the screen but no sound, press STB again, press STB yet again, the radio appears on the screen with sound. Whether this happens with FM presents I no longer care.To summarize:Appearance--5 stars, looks really nice.Sound quality--4 stars, could not expect more from such a small box.User interface--1 star. 14 little buttons around a multifunction big button that one rotates and presses. Useless on a nightstand without getting up to look at the top of the unit. Must have the remote in hand to do all the necessary things. So many other problems.Documentation--0 stars, this review is titled Worst Manual Ever. See above.Return procedure--0 stars. Amazon has made it more difficult to return an item.I will try a Grace Digital Mondo Elite next. Wish me luck.

Update 12/31/24About six months ago the network port stopped working. Looses one star. WiFi is still working but getting a good WiFi signal to it is problematic in our situation.I have had the M3 for about two months now and have to say it is a fine radio. The sound is well balanced. Music, in my opinion, is reproduced very well, as good as if not better than, the Bose it replaced. It is generally intuitive to use but not as much as the 20-year-old Bose radio, with the top mounted buttons, it replaced, or the simple cheap clock radios typically found in hotel rooms. But then again it does more than most clock radios. To fully utilize the advanced features, you do need to go through menus. While the Bose waveguide radios are fine products, they are overpriced, the M3 is a better value unless you need an AM tuner. The FM tuner is absolutely stellar. I’d say it is the best FM tuner in the house. It picks up weak FM stations easily just on its supplied antenna. It is on par with the Marantz PMD800 tuner. And surpasses the tuner in the Denon AVR3312. And that is with the Marantz, Denon, and especially the Bose using an external attic mounted antenna. The telescoping antenna is attached via a recessed F-connector, and is supposed to be removable, but you would need a deep socket (you have to fit the antenna tip through the square hole so you can’t use the ratchet to unscrew it) to do so. I tried to remove it, but it was so tight I just left it in place for fear of breaking something. If I would have been successful, I would have to use a cable that has a push-on F-connector since there is no way you can get your fingers on the connector to screw a threaded one on. So, rather than pointing the antenna up, which didn’t look nice, I pointed it down, behind the dresser, and it still receives the distant station I like to listen to. I like the fact it can display album art, RDS information, along with other information.It is not perfect, there is room for improvement and so it gets just over a four-and-a-half-star rating. Perhaps the most annoying is the fact you must turn on the radio, to any source, in order to set or change the alarm times. You can, however, turn the alarms on or off without turning the radio on. I also would like to able to set three alarm times instead of just two and /or be able to set it for a specific day of the weekend if not for a specific day of the week. Setting the alarm times on the Bose was much easier, you need to go through menus to set the alarm times on this, and don’t forget to scroll to “save” and press “OK”. Since this radio has two alarm time memories, it only loses a ¼ star due to this aspect of the radio operations.The other almost ¼ star loss is due to the size and the nomenclature of the top mounted buttons. The nomenclature is just plain hard to see in a dimly lit bedroom, which is where clock radios normally reside. I also would have preferred the standby button, to have been marked On/Off instead of “STB”. Even though it may not be technically correct, it would make the standby button more easily identifiable, since it is next to the “source button labeled “SRC”. The circular arrangement of the buttons adds to this issue, since you can’t pick “say, third from the left” While this looks nice, I would have preferred they’d been arranged in a row, or rows. And yes, this is easy to remedy with a marking pen or a sticker of some sort.FWIW, this radio is powered by 12 volts DC so it has a wall wart plug. This can be a plus or a minus, depending on the application. It would be perfect for an RV, boat, or off grid home, as it could be powered directly from a 12 Volt DC source.The Undok app works well to control the radio, but it cannot be used to set the alarm times. You must go to the radio, or its supplied remote for that.The streaming works well from the Nas. But the DAB mode is useless in the USA. I would rather have had an AM section in the tuner as opposed to the DAB mode, as there are a lot of AM radio stations here. However, since most radio stations both AM and FM have websites you can stream from, it does lessen the need for an AM tuner. No reduction of stars here since this was known up front.If you are looking for a quality clock radio, look no further than this one. However, if you need a clock radio with an AM tuner you will have to look elsewhere. Beware that a couple of these higher end radios, that compete with this one, do not have the means to retain the time and alarm settings in the event the power drops out momentarily, which was surprising to me since all the cheapie hotel style radios do, as does this one and my old Bose did. So, all in all this gets rounded up to 5 stars.