ROBERTS Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio Reviews

ROBERTS Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio review

Our Overall Score:

9.0/10

Thanks for checking out our ROBERTS Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio review. We’re here to give you the best reviews of this product and hopefully leave you confident in whether ROBERTS Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio 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: £69.99

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 Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio 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 Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio 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.

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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 Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio

ROBERTS Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio scored an incredible 9.5/10 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 Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio.

Once you’ve had a good look over the reviews you’ll have a pretty good indication of how good the quality of ROBERTS Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio 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 Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio 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 Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio 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 Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio

ROBERTS Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio scored highly with 8.3/10 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 Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio for is just £69.99 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 Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio.

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 Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio 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 Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio below average at £69.99. 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 61 products less expensive and 174 more expensive than ROBERTS Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio 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 £69.99 below 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 Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio below average at £69.99. 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 11 products from Roberts that were more expensive and 3 that were cheaper.


Reviews of ROBERTS Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio

ROBERTS Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio scores 9.3/10 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 Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio over at John Lewis & Partners, click on the “view reviews” button now to read them.

Below is a video we found for ROBERTS Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio over on YouTube.


Overall score

ROBERTS Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio got an amazing overall score of 9.0/10 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 9.0/10 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 Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio 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 Ortus 2 DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Alarm Clock Radio

  • Brand: Roberts
  • Model Number: Ortus 2
  • EAN: 5038301305789
  • Description: The ideal bedside radio companion, ROBERTS’ Ortus 2 features dual alarms, fantastically handy any-button snooze, adjustable sleep and nap timers, and a USB charging socket to keep your smart device topped up while you sleep. Dual Alarms Choose to wake up to radio (DAB or FM) or a buzzer. You can set the duration of the alarm to 30, 60, 90 or 120 minutes to suit, to make sure you’re up in time. Press any button to snooze your alarm – it’s so handy that you don’t have to fumble to find the right button (which can wake you up in the process!). Snooze time is adjustable, as well as sleep and nap functions, allowing you to put the morning on hold, or grab a well-deserved rest. The sleep function even fades the audio down gradually at the end of the chosen duration so you don’t get interrupted…and drift peacefully off… Crystal Clear DAB Experience the crystal clear reception of DAB digital radio, and the audio quality that ROBERTS are renowned for. FM frequency accounts for any stations that haven’t yet gone digital or are not digitally available in your area. 20 presets allow you to store a large number of your favourite stations with 3 instantly accessible via 3 preset buttons on top. Recharge Your Device Too With a USB charging port, it’s ideal for keeping your smart phone or tablet recharging overnight while you do the same! And an auxiliary in port means you can plug in and play tunes from your smart device, MP3 player or iPod to use the Ortus as your bedside speaker. Dimmable Digital Display The clear clock display is fully dimmable so you can find the right level of brightness throughout the night. Or in night-time mode the display fades completely to black, appearing brightly for 10 seconds at the touch of a button. The Ortus 2 is designed to offer superb radio quality and help you get a great night’s sleep.
  • Product ID: 7580066015
  • Category: Electricals > Hi-Fi, Audio & Speakers > Radios
  • Colour: Black

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