Our Overall Score:
9.7/10
Thanks for checking out our Ruark R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display review. We’re here to give you the best reviews of this product and hopefully leave you confident in whether Ruark R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display 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: £699
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 R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display 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 R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display 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 R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display
Ruark R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display scored an incredible 9.9/10 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 R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display.
Once you’ve had a good look over the reviews you’ll have a pretty good indication of how good the quality of Ruark R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display 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 R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display 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 R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display 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 R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display
Ruark R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display scored highly with 9.8/10 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 R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display for is just £699 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 R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display.
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 R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display 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 R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display above average at £699. 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 224 products less expensive and 15 more expensive than Ruark R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display 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 £699 above 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 R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display above average at £699. 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 2 products from Ruark Audio that were more expensive and 4 that were cheaper.
Reviews of Ruark R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display
Ruark R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display 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 Ruark R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display over at John Lewis & Partners, click on the “view reviews” button now to read them.
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Overall score
Ruark R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display got an amazing overall score of 9.7/10 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 9.7/10 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 R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display 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 R4 MK3 DAB/DAB+/FM Radio & CD Bluetooth All-In-One Music System with OLED Display
- Brand: Ruark Audio
- Model Number: Ruark R4
- EAN: 90659101586
- Description: Winner of Android Magazine’s Editors’ Choice & BBC Music Choice Awards The Ruark R4 MK3 carries forward the ideology of its predecessor as a traditional music centre, though it is one designed and engineered for 21st Century living. Comprising of an enhanced multi format CD player, aptX Bluetooth receiver, USB playback port, DAB/DAB+/FM tuners and auxiliary inputs, this powerful 2.1 speaker system will provide a satisfying room filling sound. Multiple ways of listening The 2.1 audio grade amplifier/speaker system is perfect for modern day listening. The revised slot loading CD mechanism is quick to operate and provides CD text information with compatible disks. Radio reception via DAB, DAB+ and FM is first class and with the built in aptX enabled Bluetooth receiver you can stream and playback music and media with CD quality sound from compatible devices. On the rear panel is a USB playback port for MP3, AAC and WMA files (which also doubles as a convenient mobile charge port) along with optical and analogue inputs. In particular, the new R4 makes a fantastic sound system for flat panel TVs with the optical input providing a convenient connection point and its rich expansive sound we guarantee will make viewing films so much more enjoyable. Functionality With its new organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display, set-up and programme information is displayed with exceptional clarity from any viewing angle. Futhermore, the RotoDial controller is now integrated so you can now manage functions either directly from R4 or use its new dedicated infra-red remote. With its compact ergonomic design the new remote control feels comfortable to hold and, alongside the RotoDial control, makes operation of R4 IMS simple and intuitive. Design The British designed R4 Hi-Fi system looks reassuringly familiar, yet both outside and in has been re-engineered making it better than ever. With a smaller footprint, lower profile and selection of beautiful finishes the new R4 exudes style.
- Product ID: 3365517175
- Category: Electricals > Hi-Fi, Audio & Speakers > Speakers
- Colour: White
