Kaito KA29 All in one World Receiver with Recorder, AM FM SW Radio and MP3 Player

My wife has broken two Sangean radios now. They are...quite bulky and large. Although there seemed to be other brand of “recording” radios, this one caught my attention due to the positive reviews. We were pleasantly surprised.It is small but shockingly loud. I was in another room and heard a loud sound and went into the bedroom to see where it was called Ming from. It was that radio. And the tonal quality is nice too.It beats the Sangean radios too in that it is far less prone to static noise....The $$ value is quite exceptional as well....my wife has had it for about a month now and loves it.SEPTEMBER 17, 2018 ADDED COMMENTSWELL, AFTER THREE MONTHS, THE RADIO JUST STOPPED WORKING. WE BOUGHT NEW BATTERIES, TRIED LOOKING ONLINE FOR A WAY TO RESET IT.....ITS GONE!WHICH IS A SHAME. WE REALLY LIKED THIS RADIO. IT WAS LOUD, EASY TO OPERATE (FOR US) LIGHT WEIGHT, SMALL, EASY TO CARRY FROM ONE ROOM TO ANOTHER...I AM SURE IF I THOUGHT ABOUT IT I COULD COME UP WITH MORE POSITIVE THINGS TO WRITE....BUT THEY MEAN NOTHING IF IT ONLY LASTED THREE MONTHS. SO NOW...I CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS. IN MY SEARCH FOR INFORMATION I HAVE ENCOUNTERED MANY OWNERS OF THIS ITEM WHERE THEY BEGAN HAVING ISSUES BUT UNRELATED TO MINE.WELL..OFF NOW TO SEARCH FOR A COMPARIBLE RADIO.... BUMMED!!!

I like the radio. It is pocket size and has a very good sound for its size. It has stereo sound. There are however negatives.It uses an old nokia cell phone battery which is discontinued. I am not a fan of a lithium cell phone battery to power a radio. Non of my older phones with this type of battery had a long battery longevity after continuous use and it did not require as much power as a radio. The radio requires a 500 ma charger and uses a mini plug in the phone. Most cell phones today use a micro plug and charge at a higher rate 1 to 2.1 Amps. Kaito warns higher than 500 ma charger can cause the battery not to function properly. If the battery is low or dies Kaito, warns that you can not plug it in to the charger to power the radio, so you can listen or record, since this generates static noise. If you are away from home and the radio dies, unless you have an extra battery, you are out of luck. I would prefer replaceable AA batteries which would play longer, easy available and could be replaced on the run. The battery was one half charged and ran out during a recording off the radio. Lost the file. Some of the radios of this size can also use either rechargeable AA or Alklines. It would however add a little weight to the radio.The small display does not provide much information about the file recorded. Not even the date after recorded.. You can not change the volume once you start to record off the radio.When the display times out to save power after a few seconds it is black and you can not even see the radio frequency. Plugging in the micro sd card, if you are not careful, can result in it falling in the case. The card is also located on the bottom of the radio could fall out.. The radio easily picks up static in the AM band and needs to be turned carefully for clear signal. The keys sometimes have to be pressed several times to get results.The instructions are ok however the print is very small. I blew the instructions up 180% and printed them to read. If they gave you a case, the original instructions could be kept in it to refer too. I bought a case for the radio in 99 cent store. The functions are not intuitive and if not used often could be confusing. There is a need to refer to the instructions. The radio can be charged by computer. However pluging it into my windows 10 computer resulted in repetitive error message and the computer constant rebooting. Use a 500 ma charger.Despite shortcomings there is currently is not much else out there. It will serve the purpose now.

I'm impressed with this little radio! I've had it for 3 months now. I like to use a product for a while before writing a review. For a small radio it has very good sound and volume. The headphone output is stereo also. I have a lodgitech speaker system that I use with my tv, I plugged the little ka29 up and it rocks! I guess it covers pretty much all of the useful sw spectrum, no longwave, nothing on longwave anyway. No aircraft band, so what right. Reception and sensitivity are good. Sometimes I clip a 40 ft wire antenna to it and it does really well on sw. Loaded with features especially for under $40. A couple of really nice features are, key pad for direct entry and auto search. This is the first radio that I have owned with autosearch. If you like to tune through seeing what you can pick up, arm and fingers get tired. With auto search you push the button and after a few minutes the radio has gone through all the bands and stored into temporary memory all the channels it is receiving. Anyway I'd heard of it and read about this feature on some radios but until now, didn't know that I needed it. I love this feature! If you are interested in this radio enough that you are reading reviews on it, you already know about the recording features. I have recorded music from fm and played it through my speakers and can tell you it sounds great. The only two things that I don't like is: I can't set a timer to record a program while I'm asleep and I tryed recording using the auxiliary input, playback sounds like crap but recording from the radio itself is awesome. Guess I'd knock a half point to 4 and half but for all you get and the price I give it 5.

It is good, but after 20 days of use thr speaker did not work anymore. When taken to repair, technician found that the speaker has the impedance of 4 ohms and output power of 3 Watts which is, as I though, the problem: the speaker would have a very low output power for the volume that handles the radio. I'm using it with good quality stereo headphones and it works fine. You can not choose mini SD or USB when both are installed, always read the USB when this happens. If you use the device daily you have to recharge the battery every night. Can not get a spare speaker. Where can I get a similar speaker or more Watts, like in the video? If they improve these details, especially the speaker, would be to qualify almost 5 stars. Thank you very much and keep improving