Comments on: Majority Oakington DAB/DAB+ Radio Review

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 07:49:52 +0000

Bought this radio for use in rural France. Digital reception is poor, so we were hoping the receiver would perform well on FM. It doesn’t. Sensitivity is very poor. So it is used only for playing CDs, and that is an unduly fiddly process. I would not recommend this radio.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 14:53:53 +0000

As with many other reviewers I also found that the display faded very quickly and the remote control which started out inconsistent, got progressively worse until it wouldn’t work at all (yes, of course I changed the batteries). Got around six months normal service from it in which time the sound was good, but would suggest with so many similar complaints on sites, that buyers look elsewhere.

By: Jay Smith

Jay Smith — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 10:15:03 +0000

I got an Oakington for my bedroom as it ticked a lot of boxes for the features that I wanted.
It has a very annoying problem though. I like to drift off to sleep listening to music and have filled up a 32GB USB stick with some mellow tunes which the Oakington plays well. However when I set the sleep timer the machine automatically goes into “standby” at midnight no matter how long the timer is set for. Very annoying if you go to bed after 11.30pm as I do most nights. After contacting Majority the only solution that they can give me is “do a factory reset”, which hasn’t worked. The remote is also very fiddly and the display is hard to see.
The Oakington does have a good sound and has plenty of features, but it is totally unsuitable for my needs.

By: Chris Roche

Chris Roche — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 12:02:45 +0000

We have for some months been using this radio the following comment applies, sound is brilliant lots of depth to sound, DAB works well, The remote works poorly with the radios sensor, The display is too small and not bright enough to be fair we are 70s but even so, The CD works most of the time but has a habit of not reading that a cd has been inserted this in turn means that it refuses to return/eject CD which takes much fiddling turning off at wall and so on, on this ground alone I would not buy another of the Majority models ours is an Oakington DAB.