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Sound: On its own the S450 sounded just fine. No AM radio lover will like this.įM: At first I thought the FM was grossly inferior to both the Redsun RP-2100 and the older S350, but once I discovered that reception was better when I off-tuned a bit I found it was reasonably good. Eton should be embarrassed to allow such an otherwise nice radio to be marketed with what I deem to be a crippled AM section. I don’t know about you but I don’t like hearing a steady tone over my local AM stations and the S450DLX is as bad in this respect as any I’ve heard. The S450DLX falls prey to a problem which has plagued many new radios over the past few years…radios using the new IC Chips which now comprise so much of the critical RF/IF circuitry is prone to spurious tones and noises across the AM band, rendering reception, even of fairly strong local signals, annoying. On AM (MW) however it is a different story. Overall SW reception on the new model was at least as good as on the older one, perhaps a bit better. Also, because the new model is Dual Conversion, there are none of the false images so prevalent on the 350. Unlike the S350, the S450DLX is PLL Tuned and Dual Conversion making it a far more stable (no drift) and no need for the annoying Tuning Lock feature of the older models, which, although it reduced the drift which plagued that entire series, made fine tuning, especially on SW, frustratingly touchy and difficult.

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The S450DLX offers several improvements over the S350 series but is less desirable in some ways too. Too bad they didn’t go with an 8” rod there. Also he found what appears to be the same speaker as the Redsun and a 5 ½ inch Twin Coil Antenna. Tune (Quick Tune) that jumps from one frequency segment to the next to help you get from one end of a frequency band to the other more quicklyīoth have an IF output for outboard SSB or DRM adaptersĪlmost all features and controls are the same.Īn engineer friend disassembled his S450 and reported that it has a completely redesigned (from the Redsun RP-2100) circuit board and the same RF/IF IC Chip (LA1260) used in the top performing CC Radio-EP.

A comparison of the S450DLX with the Redsun RP-2100 (and similar C.Crane CC Radio-SW) shows many external similarities such as:īoth are PLL tuned but have no keypad for direct frequency entryīoth have a button uniquely labeled Q.

The Grundig S450DLX is the obvious successor to their S350,S350DL series of radios. Redsun RP-2100 – Grundig S450DLX – Grundig S350DL

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