The whole thing took about 5 mins to set up. The longest part of the process was me trying to fit the cords through the right slots in our entertainment center. If your wireless connection needs a WEP password, you’ll need to enter that (it’s usually near the barcode on your modem), and you’re pretty much set up after that.

There are a ton of stations to browse, and I believe you can add your own as well. They’re broken down by genre and by area. It was kind of cool to browse stations from around the world, but the ones from those lists I was picking kept giving me some kind of format error. No biggie though, there’s plenty to choose from. A lot of the stations also have a music option and a podcast option. Haven’t checked this out yet, but sounds cool. There is a little info given in a summary for each station and favoriting stations or viewing recent stations is easy.

No wireless reception problems here, and it sounds great! Note that if you don’t have an in/out audio on the stereo you want to connect to, they do provide a little headphone jack adapter – a nice touch. Volume works fine too – often with these things you have to turn the volume all the way up on both devices to hear, but there’s a nice balance here and no problems.

Negatives – does seem a bit pricey. If I were paying for this, I’d expect a price point of no more than $80 or so. Also, there are NO buttons on the device itself (not even power). So keep track of that little remote, bc if you lose it, you’re SOL! I gave it minus one star for these 2 reasons. [NOTE: In October, the battery on the remote died, and lo and behold, I couldn't use the thing because it was stuck on a country station my husband picked. Fine again after we purchased new batteries.]

All in all, I’m thrilled with this and I’ll definitely use it a ton!
Rating: 4 / 5