Our Overall Score:
9.3/10
Thanks for checking out our Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth review. We’re here to give you the best reviews of this product and hopefully leave you confident in whether Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 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: £419
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 Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 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 Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 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 Ruark Audio 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 Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scored an incredible 8.6/10 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 Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Once you’ve had a good look over the reviews you’ll have a pretty good indication of how good the quality of Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 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 Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 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: Ruark Audio are obviously a strong and recognisable brand for making great Audio Equipment, so you’d expect Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 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, Ruark Audio, 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 Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scored highly with 9.6/10 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 Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for is just £419 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 Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Prices of products in the Audio Equipment category
We thought it would be useful to spend a bit of time exploring the price of Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 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 74 products in the Audio Equipment, and of these 74 products the average price was £436.51, making Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth below average at £419. We also looked at the cheapest option in the same category which was just £14.99 whilst the most expensive was £3499.99. So you can see there’s a huge variance in the price of products in this category, as an indication there were 209 products less expensive and 31 more expensive than Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in this category. So we thought it would be worth going into a bit more detail and looking at the prices of products from Ruark Audio.
Prices of products from Ruark Audio
So the average price of the 9 products available from Ruark Audio was £636.00, making £419 below average against the other products from the same brand. With the most expensive product from them coming in at £2300.00 and the cheapest at £59.99. We thought a good next step would be to look more specifically at products from Ruark Audio that fit in to the category of Audio Equipment rather than looking at all their products.
Of the 4 products from Ruark Audio in the Audio Equipment category, the average price is £461.75 making Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth below average at £419. Again we looked at how much price can vary and found that the cheapest product to fit this criteria was £329.00 and the most expensive was £699.00 so there are again a lot of varying prices with the products. In fact to be precise we found 3 products from Ruark Audio that were more expensive and 3 that were cheaper.
Reviews of Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scores 9.8/10 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 Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth over at John Lewis & Partners, click on the “view reviews” button now to read them.
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Overall score
Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 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 Ruark Audio so take your time to read the reviews, do your homework on setting a budget and seeing how the price of Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 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: Ruark R2 MK3 DAB/FM/Internet Radio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
- Brand: Ruark Audio
- Model Number: R2 MK3 Walnut
- EAN: 90659100695
- Description: Winner of the best All-In-One System at the What Hi-Fi? Awards 2015 The Ruark R2 MK3 combines a timeless design with technological brilliance for a compact music system that sounds even better than it looks. Featuring DAB, FM and Internet radios as well as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for streaming your personal music collection, the R2 MK3 is a versatile system to bring sublime sound to your everyday listening. Streaming Music With built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, you can enjoy your personal music collection through the R2 with ease. With your music stored on a computer, tablet or smartphone with Bluetooth, you can send your favourite albums to the R2 for immediate playback in high quality, thanks to aptX audio technology. You can access your entire digital music collection on any DLNA-certified device through Wi-Fi. Multi-room ready The R2 MK3’s multi-room capabilities make it easy to link it with other Ruark models like the MRx, R5 and R7 Mk3 to provide synced sound throughout the home. Spotify Connect If you have a Spotify Premium account, you can enjoy any song from Spotify through the R2 and even use the controls on the R2 to control playback. You won’t need to touch your tablet or smartphone to discover over 20 million songs. Global Radio With FM, DAB and Internet radio, you can access stations from all around the world. Internet radio uses Wi-Fi to give you the widest choice of stations possible, so you can always hear your favourite station from back home or sample some songs from further afield. Easy control Controlling the R2 MK3 is easy thanks to the sophisticated and elegant RotoDial control system, which sits on top of the R2. A compact remote is also included, so you can control or set functions from the comfort of your chair. Furthermore the Ruark Link App allows for full control of your R2 from your tablet or smartphone. Free to download from the iOS and Android App store, it lets you browse internet radio and DAB stations with ease, navigate your music stored on your network devices and stream all of your favourite playlists from music services like Spotify. Crystal Clear Display Programme and set-up information are displayed with crystal clear clarity on the latest technology OLED (organic light emitting diode) display. The really good thing about this new display, is that it retains its vivid clarity at any viewing angle and the display brightness can be adjusted to suit your requirements, both in active and standby modes. Handcrafted design Sophisticated in style, the R2 has been handcrafted from carefully selected woods, metals and man-made materials. The wooden cabinet delivers superior sound and is clad in an elegant finish that looks striking in combination with the cool steel front panel.
- Product ID: 3174538459
- Category: Electricals > Hi-Fi, Audio & Speakers > Speakers
- Colour: White
