An awesome and for themselves, but ...

The device: very nice design, great display, which can however be switched off in standby NOT (although it is in the BDA!) Good size and weight; it fits with me on the face of the corner seat. Beautiful wood look and send remote control.

Operation: mediocre and poorly thought! The scroll the menu and in the channel list might be accelerated by the "left" and "right" key on the remote control for factory configured (which one has an OK button to choose from!?!). Then there are generally too few storage locations and on the FB only ten keys for it (?!?). Feels like it's an eternity until the menu items can be selected. Overall, I find the service to be not consistent. Here somehow was not thinking when programming ...

The online service "WiFi Frontier": You must log on there cumbersome to use the radio reasonably can. The advantage of this is that you can manually add channels (eg in categories) that you can then select from the Radio menu. So to handle the sometimes poor quality of Internet stations that siind stored in the fixed radio database (eg. BBC Radio with WMA or American channels with low MP3 bit rates). Changes with the operator are in fact entered only after ages or not at all, even if one tells the changes.

The technique: almost contemporary. DAB +, FM RDS, WiFi, Bluetooth (old protocol!) And AUX are on board. Color display and at least Bluetooth 4.0 would have been even better, but I would indeed listen to the radio.
Large point of criticism is the power consumption! I have so far not accurately measured, but 36 watts in operation and almost one watt in standby are clearly too much!
The reception of DAB + is also good in buildings; up to 50 signal error the radio plays digital flawlessly in my area. The FM reception is rather poor, as a comparable analog radio is better. Wireless internet is okay.

Multimedia: the Radio recognize my NAS and my router without any problems as a media server. Gapless playback is possible (with MP3 tested). Other formats I have not yet reproduced. Internet radio stations are reliably played back as they are sent. I connect my tablet easily via AUX on the radio, and then watch TV in the kitchen on the home network. I connect tablet and radio via Bluetooth are picture and sound out of sync! Also in video on the web and on Youtube.

The sound: brilliant! I never thought that from this small package and the 8 cm-Beitbändern SO comes out a sound madness! On the back are two bass reflex ports, again supporting the bass response. I would say that the money you can pay for a BOSE radio itself! The DigitRadio does it just as well (and I'm challenging)! Oh, loud and clear, the DigitRadio too!
Unfortunately, this "brilliant" sound also has its drawbacks: poor sound sources are reproduced relentlessly! Encodes a radio station with too low bit rate, you can hear this quite clearly. With MP3 exactly the same. Are you against uncompressed wave files again, the radio is playing out its full potential.

Firmware: improvable. Various spelling and translation errors must a developer as Technisat not happen! Even in the update about a year ago half or so that has not been turned off. The direct selection of network profiles would be a great advantage and a multi-band equalizer in addition to the presets would increase the sound again. I said at the outset of "sloppiness" in Technisat.

Overall, has the radio clearly room for improvement. Especially at 229.99 RRP I can expect that I will get a completely mature product, which is not currently the case in DigitRadio 450. Should Technisat make improvements in the operation and the firmware, there is of me smooth five stars because I am fully confident then only from this radio. So it is (in my opinion after one year on the market) just an overpriced toy. Pity!

EDIT (04/02/2015): As the EIA has now increased by 40, I reduce my rating to two stars !!! This outrageous price increase (at the same defects as a year ago), the company Technisat shoots completely wide, and has an extremely irresponsible for me! I can now no one recommend this product!