Grace Digital Wireless Hi-fi Internet Radio Tuner featuring Pandora and NPR (GDI-IRDT200)

The Grace Digital Tuner (GDI-IRDT200) is a combination Internet radio and audio media streaming device that brings all the audio content of the Internet from your broadband connection directly to your home Stereo. With it users can listen to 16,000+ radio stations from NPR on-demand, FOX news, CNN, BBC, CBS to KROQ, over 35,000 podcast, 20,000+ On-Demand subscription streams or your personal Pandora radio stations - Free. The Tuner provides not only standard RCA connections to your home stereo but also two digital out connections for the highest audio quality experience as well as both Wi-Fi and an Ethernet connection to your home broadband router. In addition to the ability to play all the Free music in the world, music files from your PC or Mac, a SD or USB drive the Grace Tuner can also access Sirius Premium Internet radio services with a subscription directly from Sirius. The Tuner comes with a full featured remote control and is compatible with the free Grace remote control App for iPhone/iTouch. Connect all your digital music to your home stereo, with Grace. read more..

Best Features

• Listen to over 16,000 internet radio stations including Pandora, iHeart radio, NPR, BBC, ESPN, Live 365, Sirius and over 30,000 Podcast and on demand selections
• Built in Ethernet and 802.11g card that connects to any Ethernet or 802.11b,g or n wireless router (no computer needed)
• Connects to any home stereo via the Digital (Toslink or Coaxial) or RCA analog outputs
• Control your internet radio music or media files via Large 2 line display with micro backlight adjustments
• Includes a remote control, and batteries, FM antenna. Works with the Free Grace Digital iPhone / iPod Touch remote control app

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INCREDIBLE - excellent addition to our entertainment center by Chel Micheline
Confession- we moved into our house about four years ago and we *still* haven't set up our stereo. Our computers, iPhones, and iPods have sort of made music very portable, so we didn't really feel a huge need for any sort of stereo/radio in our living room.



However, a few months ago I started listening to Pandora radio on my iPhone and got hooked. For those who haven't tried it yet, it's basically a custom internet radio- you type in the name of bands, musicians, genres of music and Pandora creates a personal radio station for you based on your musical interests. They also have several stations programmed that you can choose from if you just want to pick a genre of music and go from there. It's better than satellite because not only is it customized to your tastes, but it's absolutely free (commercials are minimal- just a small spot every ten or fifteen songs.) I tried to figure out a way to get Pandora into the living room, on a *bigger* scale, but came up with nothing.



Then the Grace Digital Tuner came along and it's the *perfect* solution.



Even though we have no official "stereo" equipment, we simply plugged the tuner into out 40" flat screen and instant home stereo! The tuner is very low profile and slid right over our TiVo. It's very attractive and lightweight.



WE LOVE THIS TUNER. We're not big "stereo/entertainment system" people, but this tuner has us a bit giddy. I love how easy it is to use and how easy it was to access *my* Pandora settings (saved on the Pandora website and accessed wirelessly by the tuner) and get my personalized stations playing through the Tuner.



The first thing we did after we unpacked it was plug it in to the wall and the TV (the tuner does come with a remote, a power cord and antenna, but you need to provide your own cords), and turned it on (power switch in back). Immediately it recognized our WiFi and presented us with a list of wireless networks. Entering a password was a little tedious, but once you get it in there, it remembers it.



The tuner got online, updated both the firmware and software automatically. To access Pandora, we went into the "settings" of the Tuner, and the tuner registered itself over the internet, and displayed a code on the LCD display on the front of the unit. We went to the Grace website, set up an account, entered the code, and we were able to access our Pandora settings.



We haven't tried setting up our satellite radio account with it yet, but with Pandora, I'm not sure we will even bother. We were able to access several internet radio stations and FM radio stations as well.



The unit came with a power cord and antenna, but we needed a digital/audio cable or RCA audio cables to hook it up to our TV.



Final word of recommendation:



GET THE IPHONE APP FOR THE TUNER! It is available free from the iPhone app store (doesn't seem to work on the iPad though...). The app basically turns your iPhone into an advanced remote control for the tuner - scans the network for any receivers and recognizes them and lets you control several aspects of the tuner from your phone, including volume, station tuning, etc.. It pulls up information for the music playing, as well. However, you can't turn the unit on from the iPhone- when the tuner isn't on, it's not active on the network. Not sure if this would be the case if the tuner were plugged into our network.



Highly recommended for anyone looking for a simple way to bring radio (internet, satellite, or otherwise) into their homes.