Our Overall Score:
9.3/10
Thanks for checking out our ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect review. We’re here to give you the best reviews of this product and hopefully leave you confident in whether ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect is the right product for you, or if there’s perhaps a better alternative out there for a product in the Audio Equipment category.
Latest price search at John Lewis & Partners: £149.95
The most important part of buying online can be to read reviews and that’s why you’re here. We’ve scanned the internet to find as many ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect reviews as we can, regardless if they’re good or bad as we want to give you the most truthful and realistic overview of just how good ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect is. In finding reviews, we discovered that the best and most informative reviews were from customers over at John Lewis & Partners, to read these review just tap on the View Reviews button now.
When it comes to buying products online, whether that’s a TV, clothes, Audio Equipment or even a something like a sofa, there are a general set of guidance or advice that you can follow to help you get the best product for your needs and also the best for your budget. As you can imagine there are tons of different options in the Audio Equipment category and even loads of options of products from Roberts so it’s important to take the time to find the right one for you. The four areas that we want to delve in to a little more are the quality, the price of the product, what the reviews are saying about it and then finally we’ll look at an overall score which takes into account the other factors.
Quality of ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect
ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect scored an incredible 9.8/10 for quality.
As you’d expect with a lot of products, quality is a very important factor for choosing products in the “Audio Equipment” category. But it’s even more important to consider and get a feel for quality when you’re buying online because you aren’t given the benefit of being able to see and try the item for yourself.
This is of course why we can’t stress enough the importance of reading lots of reviews, as it will really help you to get a good feel for how good the quality is. A top tip when reading the reviews is to use the search function on your browser and search for the word “quality” in the reviews that way you can skip straight to customers that have mentioned about the quality of ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect.
Once you’ve had a good look over the reviews you’ll have a pretty good indication of how good the quality of ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect is, but we also have the following factors that you should consider to get an idea of the quality of the product you’re looking at.
- Price: It probably sounds obvious, but there are links to the price you pay and the quality of a product. Try and set your expectations for the quality based on your budget. You wouldn’t expect a Rolls-Royce for the price of a Fiesta so bear this in mind when shopping.
- Specification: It’s a really good idea to look over the product description and specification section of the website, for ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect you can read the full details on the John Lewis & Partners website where it will give you all the detail you need. It’s useful as you’ll probably already have a good idea of the sort of specs that make good Audio Equipment. Also compare these specs to other similar products that are in the same price bracket.
- Brand: Roberts are obviously a strong and recognisable brand for making great Audio Equipment, so you’d expect ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect to deliver to these expectations. But always consider the brand when you’re thinking about the quality of the product you’re going to buy, and where quality is an important factor to you, look only at those well known brands (of course only if your budget allows).
- Your experience with Audio Equipment: You’ll no doubt have some history with buying Audio Equipment, and you may have even bought products from the same brand, Roberts, use this information to your advantage. You’ll probably have a good idea of how good the quality of the product was and any faults or floors you remember from it.
Price analysis of ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect
ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect scored highly with 9.7/10 for price in our review.
Price, a hugely important part of any purchase. Price becomes even more of a consideration when we’re shopping online because it’s so amazingly simple to compare the price of several retailers in literally just a few clicks. In fact you don’t even need to do that, we’ve run price comparisons for you in order to find the best price. The lowest price we’ve managed to find ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect for is just £149.95 over at John Lewis & Partners.
There’s a lot of geeky analysis to be done on price, but what we find most effective and informative is to look at 3 different figures when comparing products and that is the average price, the most expensive and the cheapest. This gives you a really good feel for what the normal product would cost but also giving you an idea of just how cheap you can find it or the opposite, just how expensive some are. It’s also useful to look at the average of the products that fit in the same category as well as products from the same brand. So we’re going to look in more detail now at the price of ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect.
Prices of products in the Audio Equipment category
We thought it would be useful to spend a bit of time exploring the price of ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect and seeing how it compares to other similar products. And also seeing how much variance there are in prices of products in the Audio Equipment category. To do this we looked at all of the products over at John Lewis & Partners, there were a total of 31 products in the Audio Equipment, and of these 31 products the average price was £143.12, making ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect above average at £149.95. We also looked at the cheapest option in the same category which was just £29.00 whilst the most expensive was £599.95. So you can see there’s a huge variance in the price of products in this category, as an indication there were 122 products less expensive and 118 more expensive than ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect in this category. So we thought it would be worth going into a bit more detail and looking at the prices of products from Roberts.
Prices of products from Roberts
So the average price of the 27 products available from Roberts was £138.62, making £149.95 above average against the other products from the same brand. With the most expensive product from them coming in at £599.99 and the cheapest at £14.99. We thought a good next step would be to look more specifically at products from Roberts that fit in to the category of Audio Equipment rather than looking at all their products.
Of the 13 products from Roberts in the Audio Equipment category, the average price is £118.37 making ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect above average at £149.95. Again we looked at how much price can vary and found that the cheapest product to fit this criteria was £37.99 and the most expensive was £269.00 so there are again a lot of varying prices with the products. In fact to be precise we found 6 products from Roberts that were more expensive and 9 that were cheaper.
Reviews of ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect
ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect scores 8.5/10 for customer reviews.
Reviews are really the most valuable part of your online shopping, they’re giving you the next best thing to being able to actually try the product for yourself. You’re not relying on a manufacturers sales description telling you just how good their product is, you’re getting genuine feedback from actual users of the product. We can’t stress enough how important it is that you spend some time reading the reviews of ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect over at John Lewis & Partners, click on the “view reviews” button now to read them.
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Overall score
ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect got an amazing overall score of 9.3/10 in our review.
This figure takes into account the various criteria that we’ve covered above, the price, the quality and the customer reviews, in order to give you an overall score. This overall score of 9.3/10 then gives you a really easy figure to use for comparison purposes if you’re then going on to read any of our other reviews of Audio Equipment.
As you’ve already seen in the pricing section there are absolutely loads of different options from Roberts so take your time to read the reviews, do your homework on setting a budget and seeing how the price of ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect stacks up against your budget and make sure you also set yourself a list of “must-haves” so you know that this product ticks all your boxes.
More info: ROBERTS Stream 218 DAB+/FM/Internet Smart Radio with Bluetooth & Spotify Connect
- Brand: Roberts
- Model Number: Stream 218
- EAN: 5038301306915
- Description: ROBERTS’ super-stylish Stream 218 is a superior smart radio. DAB and DAB+ gives you crystal clear radio reception while Wi-Fi connectivity opens up your choice to over 20,000 stations from around the globe. Or stream your favourite choices from your smart device via Bluetooth, or directly from Spotify with the built-in Spotify Connect function. It’s portable and packs the superb signature sound of Roberts, which you can tailor to your tastes. It also features multiple alarms and sleep and snooze function to keep you on schedule. A World of Radio With Internet connectivity, you’ll be able to tune in to radio stations and podcasts from around the world, opening up a staggering choice of listening. National stations are available via crystal clear DAB, with FM frequency catering for any stations that haven’t yet gone digital. There are 120 station preset slots, giving you a massive memory to store and play all your favourites, with 5 easy access preset buttons on top. The interface features a vibrant colour screen, rotary tuning and volume control for quick, simple navigation. Wireless Music Streaming The Stream 218 is brilliantly equipped for music streaming. You can play your own music wirelessly from your smart phone or tablet with Bluetooth, or access the radio’s built-in Spotify Connect (Premium account required), so you’re in control. Select songs, playlists and radios from your Spotify library to get them playing. Stream music stored on your PC directly over Wi-Fi too. For a wired connection, plug in an audio source via the auxiliary input or play tunes from memory stick or storage device via the USB port. Customisable Sound The 6-position equaliser has separate treble and bass controls, so you can adjust the settings to your liking. Crank up the bass to maximise heavy rock or hip-hop, fine tune the treble for clearer dialogue, and all points in between. Portable Weighing 1.4kg, the radio’s lightweight frame has a carry-handle for easy portability. And with optional battery power, you can take it wherever you want. Easy App Control The UNDOK app (available on iOS and Android) acts as a remote control for your Wi-Fi radio. Using your smart phone, you can connect to the Stream 218 and control it wherever it is in the house. Multiple Alarms The Stream 218 excels as a bedside radio. You can set up a radio alarm so you wake up to your favourite station, or a simple buzzer alarm. And sleep and snooze timers allow you grab that extra forty winks, or fall asleep listening to the radio without having to worry about turning it off.
- Product ID: 21842455831
- Category: Electricals > Hi-Fi, Audio & Speakers > Radios
- Colour: White
