{"id":20474,"date":"2016-08-09T13:39:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T17:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=20474"},"modified":"2016-08-09T13:39:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T17:39:55","slug":"update-4-sangean-dt-160cl-v-sony-srf-39fp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/update-4-sangean-dt-160cl-v-sony-srf-39fp\/","title":{"rendered":"Update 4: Sangean DT-160CL v Sony SRF-39FP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’ve been following the\u00a0Sangean DT-160CL versus Sony SRF-39FP<\/a>\u00a0battery endurance test, I have some news to report: one of our competitors has\u00a0finally\u00a0<\/em>thrown in the towel…!<\/p>\n

Yesterday, while I was on the road for about 1.5 hours, the Sangean DT-160CL<\/strong>\u00a0at last gave up the contest.<\/p>\n

Since I was traveling\u00a0at the time, I can’t say with absolute certainty what o’clock\u00a0the DT-160 cried uncle\u2013\u2013but\u00a0roughly, we’re looking at 116 hours, 30 minutes of run time, give or take 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

Sangean claims the DT-160 series will operate for 100 hours with two AA batteries.\u00a0That claim is obviously pretty\u00a0conservative.<\/p>\n

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Though I used CVS Max Alkaline<\/strong> batteries (a generic version of Duracell’s Quantum batteries)–an\u00a0improvement on the standard alkaline battery–I set the volume higher than I believe Sangean or Sony would have set it for testing purposes. This should<\/em> have drained the batteries faster. The radios were also tuned to a variety of stations: weak AM, strong AM, weak FM and strong FM.<\/p>\n

In short: I’m very<\/em> impressed with the DT-160.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A 116 hour play time from two AA cells on a digitally-tuned receiver is, well, pretty incredible.<\/p>\n

Now that the endurance test is over for the DT-160CL, I’ll replace the batteries with a fresh set of CVS Max Alkaline cells and\u00a0start testing the AM\/FM receiver performance.<\/p>\n

…And how about the Sony SRF-39FP?<\/h2>\n

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My iPhone’s stopwatch has been tracking progress since last Wednesday.<\/p><\/div>\n

Even more amazingly, the Sony SRF-39FP<\/strong> is still <\/em>going strong\u2013\u2013!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I actually fell asleep last night listening to the SRF-39FP and woke up this morning with music still in my ears. What a champ!<\/p>\n

So, how long has the Sony SRF-39FP now been operating on one<\/em> AA battery?<\/p>\n

At time of posting, this little Sony’s\u00a0clocked one hundred thirty nine\u00a0hours<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Though I’ve always known that the \u00a0SRF-39FP was a true\u00a0battery miser–one of the reasons it’s been\u00a0a choice radio in the prison system<\/a>–I had no idea it could operate this long on one battery.<\/p>\n

Of course, I’ll continue tracking the Sony SRF-39FP.<\/p>\n

How much longer will the SRF-39FP last? Stay tuned to find out!<\/p>\n

Follow this review thread by bookmarking the following tag:\u00a0Sangean DT-160CL v Sony SRF-39FP<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve been following the\u00a0Sangean DT-160CL versus Sony SRF-39FP\u00a0battery endurance test, I have some news to report: one of our competitors has\u00a0finally\u00a0thrown in the towel…! Yesterday, while I was on the road for about 1.5 hours, the Sangean DT-160CL\u00a0at last gave up the contest. Since I was traveling\u00a0at the time, I can’t say with absolute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,3781,3,26,129],"tags":[600,5315,5288,5286,495,4329,4330],"class_list":["post-20474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-fm","category-news","category-radios","category-reviews","tag-sangean","tag-sangean-dt-160-cl-unboxing","tag-sangean-dt-160cl","tag-sangean-dt-160cl-v-sony-srf-39fp","tag-sony","tag-sony-srf-39fp","tag-srf-39fp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5ke","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20396,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/update-sangean-dt-160cl-v-sony-srf-39fp\/","url_meta":{"origin":20474,"position":0},"title":"Update: Sangean DT-160CL v Sony SRF-39FP","author":"Thomas","date":"August 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been thirty seven hours since I started the Sangean DT-160CL versus Sony SRF-39FP endurance test and both radio are still going strong. 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