I'm not laughing at the Radiowow R-108 - as long as one listens with headphones, or uses that headphone output to feed an amp. I'm concentrating on analog FM use.
I related to it pretty quickly, because I'm a fan of the CCrane Skywave portable that blew my mind which is made in the same factory.
In fact, RadioJayallen has a pretty interesting review of it:
April 2019 The new Radiwow R-108 very good for the money. I would recommend US purchasers buy through amazon so you can return a defective sample for exchange, something those of us who have bough…
radiojayallen.com
The DSP chip used for the analog reception (usually from Silicon Labs) - makes these thing unreal in sensitivity and selectivity on just a puny whip.
So I'm not laughing. My CCrane Skywave will never be as cool as my old beloved Sansui, but totally smokes it in performance.
Again - as long as you listen with headphones, or use it with an amp - and of course the station itself can't be total compressed garbage. That's what's ironic - the DSP chip really exposes a station with poor quality, but the good stations who actually care about their signal - if you can find them - are superb. The "transparency" of using a SiLabs DSP chip as compared to old analog demods is astounding.
Just put a towel over it when your vintage buddies come over!