LEMEGA PR2 Max DAB+ Radio with Bluetooth 5.3 (Walnut)

The LEMEGA PR2 Max is number 5 in this guide and, at £27.95, the cheapest radio on the list. It is a compact DAB/DAB+/FM radio in a walnut case measuring 15.3 x 4.5 x 9 cm and weighing 480 g, with Bluetooth 5.3 streaming, two independent alarms, a snooze control, a sleep timer and 40 DAB/FM presets. Amazon gives it 4.2 out of 5 from 1,726 ratings, and ranks it 7th in Portable DAB Radios. The star breakdown printed on the listing covers only 100 of those 1,726 ratings — 61 five-star, 19 four-star, 9 three-star, 4 two-star and 7 one-star — which averages out to the same 4.2.

What makes the PR2 Max worth reading about here is what its listing does not say. The radios at the centre of this guide's argument on power both publish an output figure — one claims 30 W, the other 5 W. The LEMEGA PR2 Max publishes no output wattage at all. The only power claim it makes is 'up to 10 hours' from 2 x AA batteries, which is a smaller and older kind of number, and it never dresses that up as anything else. The listing does carry one gap worth knowing before you buy: the box contents field names only the Owner's Manual, so the AA batteries the 10-hour figure depends on are not in the box, and none of the customer reviews shown on the page mentions battery life either. Everything on this page is taken from the Amazon listing and the reviews published there. We have not tested this radio ourselves.