Grace Digital Mondo Elite Smart Internet Radio, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 7-Day Alarm – Microphone-Free (Black)

Outstanding. I've been holding off buying this because it was expensive, but this was a Christmas present to myself. Where I live, the Boston Radio stations don't carry CBS AND ABC RADIO NEWS ON THE HOUR. So being able to pull in WBBM NEWSRADIO CHICAGO AND KOMO NEWSRADIO IN SEATTLE gave me those NEWS STATIONS. Also a local power grid absolutely kills my AM RADIO reception. Now I can pretty much program EVERY Radio station in the Boston and Worcester markets.Overall it's easy to set up. They give you 5 Presets on the physical buttons for your 5 absolute favorites, but you literally have 100 Favorite Stations for Internal Presets.Just be patient on finding your stations. For example, I wanted to make 98.5 The Sports Hub a Preset and it didn't work. But I did find it listed another way and it DID work.If you use radiolocator.com to see every station in your market, you can find every station you want. I wound up programming my distant stations first and then all my local stations in order by Radio frequency AM and FM.It also has Sirius XM! All you need is your Internet Access Sign in and Password from your Sirius XM ALL ACCESS SUBSCRIPTION and you're in.I easily connected this unit to my 36 Year Old Pioneer Home Stereo and the sound quality was amazing. There were a few reviews on this unit saying the sound quality was lousy. That is simply NOT TRUE. If you hook up this radio to a home stereo, it is beautiful. I have absolutely NO problem with this unit sound wise by itself.The Audacy Music Stations are all there including JACK FM KCBS FM in Los Angeles and KROQ too. And all Audacy CBS NEWS stations like WCBS in NY, KNX in Los Angeles and KCBS in San Francisco are there. You also have access to the many HD radio stations out there.FYI, many radio stations are no longer blacking out Sporting Events on their stations. I pulled in the Patriots game on 98.5 The Sports Hub last Sunday and psyched it to my DIRECT TV and it was beautiful.FYI everybody, INTERNET RADIO has about a 2 minute delay. If you can live with that, then this radio is awesome.With my DirectTV receiver DVR that pauses, I had no problem psyncing the TV to this radio..This Radio in every aspect is a winner and hits it out of the park.

A very good clock radio and stereo system which you can plug it into auxiliary plug to hear the sound even bigger and better, this radio has many features that some don't have at all, it has a very good alarm system to wake up and hear what you want to hear, you can wake up from my heart radio Pandora Sirius XM spoofy Amazon music sleep sounds multiple room podcast live365 ,calm radio and so many other features in it it's the best clock radio ,

There is one radio station in our area and the programming is not anything we prefer. We had been using a tablet to stream Amazon and Sirius, which worked but was clunky. We did a fair amount of research and ordered the Mondo Elite. It arrived in perfect condition and packed well. Setup was easy and straightforward. The radio found our network quickly and connecting to Amazon, Sirius, and iHeart went without a hitch. Connected to our home theatre receiver. The sound is much improved over the tablet and navigation is easy. We are looking forward to listening to our favorite music for a long time.

UPDATE after 20 months:------------------------------The TFT screen has developed a burn-in image. We apparently left it on after playing something from USB because now, no matter what is actually playing, we see a burned in image of that album along with ghostly images of the play controls at the bottom and the status icons at the top, even when it's just showing the clock. It's out of warranty so I'm looking into just trying to replace the screen itself (there's an ifixit guide but it's not specific to the "Elite", so I may just follow along and see if the screen has the same or similar part # and order a replacement).Other than that, we have been generally pleased with it. Sometimes the wifi would drop quality and eventually I went through and reconnected to our wifi and it seems better. It's like it was picking up a more distant access point in our home rather than the one that was closest. That seems common with old or buggy wifi drivers, where it'll pick the access point with the lowest MAC address (alphabetically) rather than the one with the strongest signal. Dumb way to do it, but I've seen it on other "simple" devices with cheaper wifi.I'm knocking my review from 5 to 4 stars because of the screen burn in. I wasn't aware it might do that after being left on the same screen for a while. If this is a known issue, they really should force-implement a screen saver feature to avoid burn in.Original review:------------------I bought this mainly to play a collection of MP3s, which it does fine from either an attached USB drive, or from a DLNA server on my network. However I've since really enjoyed playing stuff from Pandora, iHeartRadio, or even Amazon Prime's channels.Using as a bluetooth speaker from my phone also works great, although I have a separate standalone that I normally use for that. One little gripe I have is that you can use it as a Chromecast device, but when I do that from my phone, the audio cuts out a lot. I blame Chromecast... my dedicated Chromecast device is nearly as bad and I think Google's technology on that is still pretty bad and buggy.One other gripe, and I blame Amazon for this - I've saved some presets for Amazon Prime channels (Instrumental Christmas for example) and from time to time, I start that preset and it's playing something else entirely. Since I'm guessing the preset is just a URL to a specific thing, Amazon is probably recycling those and changing them around. Not cool. Not sure if Grace Digital can do anything about it, like maybe periodically check the channel name against the saved URL, but whatever... I search for it again and resave it and all is well. It's just weird.