Instead of this mess of a radio, I really wish that Eton had focused on an upgraded Elite 750. While I really enjoy my 750, I do acknowledge that it could be much better with (at least) a third bandwidth choice; triple conversion; and a built-in MP3 recorder. Toss-in Bluetooth support and you have something that would be worth an additional $100-$200 premium. Instead we get a DSP-based monstrosity with very poor mechanical and electronic Q/C in a cabinet that evokes memories of a classic radio built with collaboration with Drake. Whoever thought they could successfully foist this off to the public as a premium priced radio should be tarred and feathered - and then hung. It aptly deserves being named the “Flop of the Year”. Heck, it may be the “Flop of the Decade”!!
The 750 is really a Tecsun radio, not designed or produced by Eton, simply a rebadged Tecsun S-2000. The Tecsun H501x is likely what they see as the successor, although I do hope we see a sequel in the larger form factor, it seems increasingly unlikely.
Well being that the Eton 750 isn't of their design (Tecsun) that wasn't likely to ever happen. For the price they charged for the Eton Satellite HD they could have used a better screen, and went SDR instead of DSP.
That's because it wasn't a real unit, it was like those Walmart display phones that's just the case with no internals, so of course the keypad is not going to hold up.
Eton's Edsel. It looks like they stuck the innards of a their satellit 350 into the case of the old XM radio with a multi-color display and added $300 to the price. Even the $100 sdr radio's have more options
Too bad. Amazon still lists these for $549. I really want a bigger radio now that I'm planning to upgrade my living quarters to if not a house, at least a bigger RV. Preferably a toy hauler with space in the back to start setting up a beginner radio shack. This would have been a neat starter radio but at that price and with its bad rep, I'd rather get a 750 Satellite model and perhaps an antenna setup. Maybe even a Cobra CB or a radio scanner to start spicing things up.
They put zero effort into this, pretty clear they don't have any competent engineers actually working on new product and were hoping to just make a fast buck for as little investment as possible. Unless they decide to actually put in some effort, it's a good thing in the end if they don't release new product to rip us enthusiasts off.
A good looking, modern tombstone, design but only a show radio. Very disappointing and should probably sell for 150---200 dollars. Even then it does not do what it should. Stick with Tecsun products is the advice that is worth heeding.
Just pulled my old Eton E1/XM out of storage to compare performance with a Tecsun 990x. I was pleasantly surprised at how well the Eton held up. Particularly with regard to SSB the Eton significantly outperformed the Tecsun. Many signals that were readable on the Eton were drowned in noise on the Tecsun or barely audible. What happened to the new Eton radio? I would guess that the relationship between Drake and Eton is long gone.
What a shame… You could get a Sangean HDR-16, and a Tecsun PL680 for less than half that and have 2 solid portables that cover everything this is supposed to do only competently.
I did purchase one after waiting over 2 years on their list at Universal. I got it at the pre-order US price of $350.00 plus shipping. I do like the HD FM now that it works. There are mainly Best Buy Insignia HD FM radios.
@@digitalmediafan Unfortunately No, as I can see using it. However, stations using AM HDhas been declining since after it began earlier in the 2000"s. I had a JVC HD receiver installed in my 2001 Camaro, not a Z-28, which I had until 2010. I was one of the few early users to have an HD capable receiver back then. I remember the main big stations in NY City, near me had HD AM, and I did receive distant HD AM at night.
@@brendanb1541 Agreed. I still use my Eton Elite Executive 2019 iteration everyday. Eton somehow managed to completely screw up two perfectly good radios.
My original E1 still works great except for the display that's getting very dim. The original E1s had receiver boards by R.L. Drake. I wonder if it's possible to transplant an original E1/Drake board into the body of this radio. That would resolve my display and sticky problem all at once. HDR is not particularly useful.
This radio is an insult. I was one of many, many people who waited for years, having a preorder deal with Universal Radio (and bless Universal for trying to make it right, but Eton screwed them right along with us). This absurdly overpriced DSPiece of crap is just an insult. Soft muting on MW and SW tuning, really, this day and age? With NO way to turn it off? And the long-touted PBT turns out to be merely a poorly performing fine tuning? Those issues alone killed it for me even if it had been a $50 radio. But this $100 performer being sold for ANYthing more than even that, is just obscene. I can't find anyone reviewing it positively. In fact, I can't seem to find any radio sites even talking about it anymore. It's simply on sale for ridiculous prices on some websites and that's that. Eton failed so hard, and so inexcusably.
eton should have kept producing the orginal E1XM and only replaced XM with HD in a revision of the long run of E1s, but Eton decided to discontinue it for this Elite 750 and this horrid receiver!!!
There will be nothing else fixed, they upgraded the firmware for HD freeze, the rest is not something you fix with firmware. This radio will stay the way it is
Which it'll never be (well they could make a broad revision, but I highly doubt it), in order for all of the issues to be fixed it'll take a complete redesign (back to the drawing board). And even in the unlikely case they do make a board revision or completely redesign the board it'll still be just another DSP receiver.
499 USD 12/13/22 1:20am CST. I don't understand Eton's inability to move into the era of rechargeable lithium batteries. This thing STILL requires 4 boat anchor D Cells. That kills the deal at half the price.
While lithium batteries are nice and all, when a company moves to use them they usually make it to where you can't easily replace them. This is the better method, you can use standard batteries, or buy rechargeables which are a lot easier to find locally, pretty much any store has standard batteries if you absolutely need to use the radio in a pinch.
No offense, but you don’t actually show anything that’s wrong with this by actually showing it in action. You’re just repeating what other people have said on the Internet. There’s no value in this video.
For that kind of money you could easily buy a ham radio transceiver ... you don't have to have the license to listen, only to transmit ...
True. I have a licence and only listen.
Instead of this mess of a radio, I really wish that Eton had focused on an upgraded Elite 750. While I really enjoy my 750, I do acknowledge that it could be much better with (at least) a third bandwidth choice; triple conversion; and a built-in MP3 recorder. Toss-in Bluetooth support and you have something that would be worth an additional $100-$200 premium. Instead we get a DSP-based monstrosity with very poor mechanical and electronic Q/C in a cabinet that evokes memories of a classic radio built with collaboration with Drake. Whoever thought they could successfully foist this off to the public as a premium priced radio should be tarred and feathered - and then hung.
It aptly deserves being named the “Flop of the Year”. Heck, it may be the “Flop of the Decade”!!
The 750 is really a Tecsun radio, not designed or produced by Eton, simply a rebadged Tecsun S-2000. The Tecsun H501x is likely what they see as the successor, although I do hope we see a sequel in the larger form factor, it seems increasingly unlikely.
Well being that the Eton 750 isn't of their design (Tecsun) that wasn't likely to ever happen.
For the price they charged for the Eton Satellite HD they could have used a better screen, and went SDR instead of DSP.
Did anyone else notice the broken/sunken keypad in the picture a 01:37? Yikes.....
That's because it wasn't a real unit, it was like those Walmart display phones that's just the case with no internals, so of course the keypad is not going to hold up.
Eton's Edsel. It looks like they stuck the innards of a their satellit 350 into the case of the old XM radio with a multi-color display and added $300 to the price. Even the $100 sdr radio's have more options
Too bad. Amazon still lists these for $549. I really want a bigger radio now that I'm planning to upgrade my living quarters to if not a house, at least a bigger RV. Preferably a toy hauler with space in the back to start setting up a beginner radio shack. This would have been a neat starter radio but at that price and with its bad rep, I'd rather get a 750 Satellite model and perhaps an antenna setup. Maybe even a Cobra CB or a radio scanner to start spicing things up.
Price has dropped from $599.90 to $499.99 at many USA vender websites... still too much.
It needs to drop a lot more
I think many knew it was going to be a flop seeing the price and that it was only a DSP receiver.
I'd say this is the flop of the decade.
They put zero effort into this, pretty clear they don't have any competent engineers actually working on new product and were hoping to just make a fast buck for as little investment as possible. Unless they decide to actually put in some effort, it's a good thing in the end if they don't release new product to rip us enthusiasts off.
For the price they wanted for it they should have done better than a DSP based setup.
SONY SHOULD START MAKING A SUCCESSOR TO THE ICF-2010 and ICF-7600GR.
Sony's too worried about making PlayStations and TVs more than anything else. I don't think they've made a competitive radio receiver in years.
A good looking, modern tombstone, design but only a show radio. Very disappointing and should probably sell for 150---200 dollars. Even then it does not do what it should. Stick with Tecsun products is the advice that is worth heeding.
Where are the Sonys?....we need them now!😮
Sony hasn't made a short wave radio since the ICF-SW7600GR in 2002, i think but sony is too focused on the playstation 5 right.
Just pulled my old Eton E1/XM out of storage to compare performance with a Tecsun 990x. I was pleasantly surprised at how well the Eton held up. Particularly with regard to SSB the Eton significantly outperformed the Tecsun. Many signals that were readable on the Eton were drowned in noise on the Tecsun or barely audible. What happened to the new Eton radio? I would guess that the relationship between Drake and Eton is long gone.
What a shame… You could get a Sangean HDR-16, and a Tecsun PL680 for less than half that and have 2 solid portables that cover everything this is supposed to do only competently.
I did purchase one after waiting over 2 years
on their list at Universal. I got it at the pre-order US price of $350.00 plus shipping.
I do like the HD FM now that it works. There
are mainly Best Buy Insignia HD FM radios.
@@digitalmediafan Unfortunately No,
as I can see using it. However, stations
using AM HDhas been declining since
after it began earlier in the 2000"s.
I had a JVC HD receiver installed in my
2001 Camaro, not a Z-28, which I had
until 2010. I was one of the few early
users to have an HD capable receiver
back then. I remember the main big
stations in NY City, near me had HD AM,
and I did receive distant HD AM at night.
The update for the Eton Elite Executive with HD radio and multi-colour display was cancelled.
That's a bummer
@@brendanb1541 Agreed. I still use my Eton Elite Executive 2019 iteration everyday. Eton somehow managed to completely screw up two perfectly good radios.
Can you provide a link for that?
Is that hearsay or is that straight from the horses mouth ?
Did any of the innovative components even prove successful? I’m thinking the next great portable radio will end up being an SDR receiver…
If it wasn’t so expensive it would be funny 😄
My original E1 still works great except for the display that's getting very dim. The original E1s had receiver boards by R.L. Drake. I wonder if it's possible to transplant an original E1/Drake board into the body of this radio. That would resolve my display and sticky problem all at once. HDR is not particularly useful.
This radio is an insult. I was one of many, many people who waited for years, having a preorder deal with Universal Radio (and bless Universal for trying to make it right, but Eton screwed them right along with us). This absurdly overpriced DSPiece of crap is just an insult. Soft muting on MW and SW tuning, really, this day and age? With NO way to turn it off? And the long-touted PBT turns out to be merely a poorly performing fine tuning? Those issues alone killed it for me even if it had been a $50 radio. But this $100 performer being sold for ANYthing more than even that, is just obscene. I can't find anyone reviewing it positively. In fact, I can't seem to find any radio sites even talking about it anymore. It's simply on sale for ridiculous prices on some websites and that's that. Eton failed so hard, and so inexcusably.
I’m wondering if some of the flawed technology used in the Satellite, was to be used in the new Executive.
Just a thought.
📻😐
The DSP probably, but everything else is probably even cheaper
Too much money for this!
eton should have kept producing the orginal E1XM and only replaced XM with HD in a revision of the long run of E1s, but Eton decided to discontinue it for this Elite 750 and this horrid receiver!!!
Thanks for the review!
Ready to buy when the bugs and firmware are fixed.
There will be nothing else fixed, they upgraded the firmware for HD freeze, the rest is not something you fix with firmware. This radio will stay the way it is
Which it'll never be (well they could make a broad revision, but I highly doubt it), in order for all of the issues to be fixed it'll take a complete redesign (back to the drawing board). And even in the unlikely case they do make a board revision or completely redesign the board it'll still be just another DSP receiver.
499 USD 12/13/22 1:20am CST. I don't understand Eton's inability to move into the era of rechargeable lithium batteries. This thing STILL requires 4 boat anchor D Cells. That kills the deal at half the price.
While lithium batteries are nice and all, when a company moves to use them they usually make it to where you can't easily replace them.
This is the better method, you can use standard batteries, or buy rechargeables which are a lot easier to find locally, pretty much any store has standard batteries if you absolutely need to use the radio in a pinch.
No offense, but you don’t actually show anything that’s wrong with this by actually showing it in action. You’re just repeating what other people have said on the Internet. There’s no value in this video.
Yes this video is valuable it shows the flaws from expert reviews of people I am in contact with... so there is no value in your idiot comment