Dan wrote:

In article ,
"Stinger" wrote:

Okay.

Now, try plugging in a "good" pair of Walkman-style headphones. Turn on a
good FM station, and press FM again to get the "Bass" setting.

Nice, huh?

I think the speaker is basically there as a convienience, but the radio's
size (and the fact that the manual says not to use the Bass setting without
headphones) tell me that you've basically got a shortwave walkman.

Exactly, and it absolutely excels in that application!

Although mine is still "good enough" thru the speaker for hour after
hour program listening. No, it's not as nice as my R8 with the Sync
Detector on playing thru my Satellit 650's AUX input, but then it
doesn't weigh a combined 20 pounds either!

Dan

I'm the first to admit that after I use my Yaesu for day to day
listening for a while and then go back to a portable the portable sounds
tinny. The 1102 sounds worse than my DX396-but it is more sensitive.
Sensitivity beats a small speaker in my book. I've been using the Degen
to listen to Radio Netherlands's nightly newscasts for two successive
nights, and the sound is listenable. I haven't tried the headphones yet,
but considering that Degen makes no-speaker walkman type radios that use
the same headphones, I think Stinger is basically correct. I use
portables mainly for day to day listening, saving my Yaesu for heavy
duty DX.