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Sonichi SB50 Digital Radio with Bluetooth

£129.99
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Sonichi SB50 Digital Radio with Bluetooth to connect compatible devices. Comes with external magnetic DAB antenna for improved reception.

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Sonichi SB50 Digital Radio product description

Sonichi SB50 DAB digital radio with AM/FM/SD/USB/CD/MP3 player & Bluetooth, included external magnetic DAB antenna, RDS is also available on this radio

Features & benefits of the Sonichi SB50 DAB Radio

  • Hear more music, news & sport stations with digital.
  • Read programme, track & artist on display screen.
  • External microphone for handsfree calling via Bluetooth (with compatible devices)
  • Hear music from your portable music player through car speakers wirelessly (with compatible devices)
  • 4 x 45 watt max power output
  • Front Aux input for MP3 players or iPod
  • SD card slot & front mounted USB input
  • 5 channels line out, front, rear & subwoofer

Whats in the box

  • SB50 DAB radio
  • External magnetic DAB antenna
  • ISO connector
  • Din mounting kit
  • External microphone
  • Remote control

Mobile Phone Compatibility

To download the Phone compatibility chart for this product please click here

User Guide

To download the user manual for this product please click here

Additional Information

Details of coverage

The digital radio signal currently covers the majority of motorways and A roads. The coverage begins to get patchier on B roads.

For details of a DAB antenna, should a replacement be required please click here

The remote control in Sonichi SB50-DAB is Infra Red remote control. It can operate within a distance of 3 - 5 meter at the angle of 30 degree left and right from the centre of the the remote sensor.

Sonichi SB50 Digital Radio with Bluetooth 4.3 5 38 38
upgrade for naff car makers audio. This is the beesnees the dab takes a little time to get used to but quality of sound is that much better,you get 3 bands of dab that can store 6 stations on each. This piece of kit will even allow me to make/receive phone calls with my very old mobile. 23 July 2012
suprisingly good Considering the reasonable price I was suprised by the performance. DAB reception seems fairly good on my original aerial using an amplified splitter. If there is a downside I think that the removable display panel is a bit fiddly to fit and it's best left in place, and the manual is fairly useless 11 May 2012
All-in-One = All-you-Need/Want Instalation was easy with cable adaptor from Halfords. Product very simple to set-up especially Bluetooth with Sony-Ericsson-hassle free. I was looking for Hands-free system and if you do your homework you probably notice that you need to pay the same or even more for good Parot set, so the rest comes free:). Sound quality on hands-free is good but needed to turn the low tones down as my speakers aren't good. Apart from that nothing negative to say. DAB is great, traveling mostly on A roads and within rural areas rearly loosing signal unles is really wet day than is not so great. CD works, so is the AUX, Card and USB reader. Simply all you may possibly need from car audio. It feels rather warm after some time of playing CDs' but hasn't cooked yet. Remote Control is a great addition and to be honest I didn't know it comes with it. Great all in one car audio system. So don't hesitate to buy. You may find other, more expensive units but at the end of the day this one is sufficient enough so real bargain. Highly recommended. 05 May 2012
Great Radio for a fantastic price Brought this Stereo as I wanted a stereo with the follwoing requirments for my car, bluetooth, decent looks and hidden cd player. The fact that this was all available on a DAB stereo and at such a low price drew me to the unit. There was a couple of issues fitting this to my car however the guys at Telford Halfords were great and got around this issue. Sound quality is great even with standard speakers, Music plays excellent from CD, Standard Radio, DAB, Mobile Phone and USB stick. You can set the volume and bass and treble for each mode and the Steroe remembers these modes for next time. Remote control is fantastic and the whole package is fantastic. Only 2 things I would say that is annoying is: the extra DAB Aerial that needs to be fitted. Being magnetic it needs to be removed beofre going through a car wash unlesh you want to lose it as it is a low quality magnet that has a habit of moving around with just a little pressure. 2nd thing: Time it takes for DAB radio to load, system does digital search first everytime you start the car up so it tazkes a while for DAB to load up when you first turn it on each time. All in All a fantastic product, does everything you could require and more, matches the higher quality brands all the way and for around half thier price. Looks good, good sound quality, does everything. I recommend you stop looking, stop reading and get this now. 24 March 2012
Great quality product A great little DAB radio, connects to my music player and great quality Bluetooth hands free. Quick fitting and great service. Sometimes the front panel can be a pain to attach 20 March 2012
Very Happy I had the Sonichi DAB radio fitted by Dan at Oxford Halfords this afternoon. He did a good job and I am very pleased. The unit is a bit plasticky and the buttons are small and fiddly but at this price I am not complaining. The feel is a bit wobbly and insubstantial. It took me a few attempts to identify my DAB stations and save them and to work out how to pair my iphone with the unit and play music through it but that was mainly because I didn't spend enough time reading the manual to start with. Although obviously translated from another language it does make sense if you read it over a few times. Once I read the manual I was quickly connected to my iphone and the DAB stations I wanted. The handsfree is fine for receiving calls but the microphone is a bit faint for the person at the other end. However, I have repositioned the microphone and it seems a bit better now. Music quality excellent from the DAB radio and via the bluetooth on my iphone. Haven't tried the USB, AUX or SD yet but confident they will be fine too. All in all very happy with my purchase. 03 March 2012
Excellent service and product Had this car stereo fitted by Ben at the Blackpool Halfords store a week ago and returned to have facia fitted today, as it had to be ordered in. Very happy with the service, Thanks Ben! The radio is wonderful! Worth the money and the DAB reception has been spot on so far - including driving round the Lake District last weekend. Only lost the signal a couple of times in places I would usually lose FM reception up there. 20 January 2012
Great price, packed with features I was concerned about the quality with getting such a cheap DAB radio, especially with so many other features built in, but this stereo is fantastic! Perhaps not the most stylish unit, and it can take a bit of getting used to with the bright blue display, however this performs the task it was purchased for exceptionally well, and the Bluetooth function for streaming my music from my iPhone, to making and receiving phone calls more safely, has me wondering how I ever survived without it before. DAB reception is very good and crystal clear, and for an entry level stereo, this is an essential purchase. Halfords claimed it would take hours to fit DAB aerial due to the shape of my car doors and having to find alternative route due to trim and finish, but even I managed to do this myself in only 20 minutes,meaning halfords only had to connect stereo, which they are experts at. the whole thing including the drive to halfords meant my stereo was working an hour after I started fitting aerial. Instruction book is perhaps not very in depth, but it tells you what you need to know 14 January 2012
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When pressing the band button only FM and MW are available.If the DAB aerial is faulty or disconnected, does this stop the DAB option from appearing or should the DAB still be available for selection but have no reception.Thankyou.
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A DAB antenna will need to be connected to receive a DAB signal.
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Can you tell me if the above unit is compatible with a Samsung B2100 phone? I have paired them up but when I try to use the bluetooth function there is very bad distortion and nothing of any sense can be heard.
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Sorry the Samsung B2100 is not listed as a compatible phone.
There is a link to compatible phones on the product page on the website.
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can only pickup analog station's
Age Group: 45 - 54
Gender: Male
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Please ensure you have the DAB antenna installed.
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Can you assist? I have recently bought one of these and apart from the DAB being slow to connect I have had issues with the USB/MP3/4 side of things. If I connect a MP3 player ie Walkman and select a folder to play why if I then select random does it play all tracks on the player at random rather than those on the selected folder? To try and overcome this I bought a proper USB stick and copied the folder, I wanted to it. When put into the unit I now get a message saying error 3. What's that??? The manual (which is useless by the way) has no mention of any fault codes, error messages or help. Nothing on-line either. Please advise as to what I need to do before I return the unit and get a refund.

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The USB connection on this unit is designed to playback tracks burned using a proprietary MP3 coder in a massstorage format.
It is not designed to be connected to any MP3 player (via USB, although it can be connected to an MP3 player via Aux-in using the headphone jack socket), nor will it replay other compression codecs such as AAC as it is not designed to do so.
The reported slow connection to DAB digital radio could be due to a number or factors such as reception, signal strength etc. There is always a short delay when tuning to DAB as the unit has to decode the digital transmission and put it through it's internal circuitry before outputing through the speakers.

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I do not want an unsightly magnetic aerial so can you fit an internal glass mount? If so, I note that some need a power source so does the SB50 provide power for the aerial.
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There is an option to fit an internal glass mount antenna.
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£129.99 Sonichi SB50 Digital Radio with Bluetooth to connect compatible devices. Comes with external magnetic DAB antenna for improved reception.