Can Morphy Richards compete with Acoustic Energy?
(UPDATED with pictures from inside radio below) After Bush, Dixons, MagicBox, Acoustic Energy (AE), and most recently BT, Morphy Richards is the latest manufacturer to produce an Internet radio based on the successful Reciva platform. Unfortunately, unlike the solid device made by AE _ and to a lesser extent MagicBox _ Morphy have taken a good idea and more or less made a hash of the execution. First of all I’d like to note that I bought the Morphy Richards Internet Radio (model # 27025) out of necessity. MagicBox and AE devices are incredibly hard to come by on the high street, and invariably £20-50 more expensive than by mail-order or over the Net. I needed to buy the device in the space of a morning, because I was leaving the country later that day, and I didn’t fancy Dixons’ cheap-looking model, which I’d read a few bad reviews of. So I popped into a large Argos store and got the Morphy Richards device. What appealed to me was the fact that the Morphy Richards radio came with a num
