Our Overall Score:
8.9/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Radios category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £54
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Sony or alternative products in the Radios category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio
SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio scores 8.3/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Radios. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Radios, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Radios? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio scores 9.1/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Radios category was £920.40, whilst the cheapest we found was £2.97 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Radios category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Radios category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Radios category. This was £98.70 from the 101 products we found in that category. So SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio actually comes in below average at £54.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £920.40 and the least expensive, which was £2.97. In total we found that of the 101, 57 were more expensive and 43 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio.
Prices of products from Sony
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Sony. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Sony, which was £453.54 of the 318 products we found. So SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio price is below average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Sony was £6.99 with the most expensive coming in at £9999.00.
Prices of products from Sony and in the Radios category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Sony that sit specifically within the Radios category.
For this we found that the average price was £64.11, making SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio at £54 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £129.00 with the lowest priced item being £24.99. In total there were 4 items that were more expensive and 4 that was less expensive.
Reviews of SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio
SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio scores 9.3/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio is.
Overall score
SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio scores 8.9/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Sony so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: SONY XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio
- Brand: Sony
- Model Number: XDRS41D
- LCD display10 presetsAlarmMains / battery poweredUp to 27.5 hours battery life
- EAN: 4548736053953
- Description: Top features: – Store your favourite stations with up to five presets – LCD display details the program you’re listening to – Battery powered to let you listen to the radio wherever you are Store your favourite stationsThe Sony XDR-S41D Portable DAB+/FM Clock Radio features both DAB+ and FM radio, offering you access to a wide range of entertainment. To save you time, you can store up to five preset DAB radio stations and a further five FM radio stations for quick and easy access to your favourite music.LCD displayUsing the LCD display, you can easily see details about the station and program you are listening to. You can also set the XDR-S41D to turn off or wake you up at the best time to suit your daily routine.Battery poweredThe XDR-S41D can run on both mains power and batteries, meaning that you can position the radio wherever you want. Whether you’re sat in your living room or out in the garden, you can enjoy your favourite stations.
- Product ID: 22762114073
