{"id":55475,"date":"2023-01-25T17:06:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T21:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=55475"},"modified":"2023-01-25T17:06:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T21:06:29","slug":"sangean-wfr-39-review-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/sangean-wfr-39-review-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Sangean WFR-39 review update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Some of you know I’ve been working on a review of the Sangean WFR-39 WiFi\/Internet radio. I’ve placed that review on hold as I’ve just learned that Sangean is working on updates to address a number of the issues I discovered while evaluating this unit over the past three months.<\/p>\n

Besides an overly sluggish CPU, there are distracting audio artifacts present in the audio amplification chain when in Internet radio mode.<\/p>\n

I’ll plan to publish a full review once they have updated and tested the new WFR-39 firmware. I think Sangean is an excellent radio manufacturer so I’m happy they’re addressing these issues in what would otherwise be a capable portable WiFi radio.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of you know I’ve been working on a review of the Sangean WFR-39 WiFi\/Internet radio. I’ve placed that review on hold as I’ve just learned that Sangean is working on updates to address a number of the issues I discovered while evaluating this unit over the past three months. Besides an overly sluggish CPU, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,4652],"tags":[10116],"class_list":["post-55475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-wifi-radio","tag-sangean-wfr-39"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-eqL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30566,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/ivan-reviews-the-sangean-wrf-28-wifi-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":55475,"position":0},"title":"Ivan reviews the Sangean WRF-28 WiFi radio","author":"Thomas","date":"January 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Ivan (NO2CW), who writes: Hello, I posted on YouTube my review of the Sangean WFR-28 FM and Wifi Internet radio receiver. 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