New table radio to challenge Tivoli
 

On 7 1 , 8 24 , Anthony Edwards
wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:28:17 GMT, Eeyore

wrote:
Table radios ?

Does anyone still use such things ?

I have several. A Roberts R983 which mainly functions as an alarm
clock in the bedroom these days, a Pure EVOKE-1XT which gives sterling
service in the kitchen, and the rather excellent EVOKE-1XT Marshall
Edition.

I also own a Tivoli Model One, however this suffers from frequency
drift (not as badly as my original which was replaced under warranty,
but still sufficiently to be annoying) and I have given up on it.
It sits in its box in a kitchen cupboard.

--
Anthony Edwards


I have received an updated
engineering version of the R-301, based on mine and a
few other's feedback the engineer fine tuned a few
details and I found it sounds better to my ears. My
reference sysmtem is a Grundig T-9000 tuner, a Sansui
AU-D907G aplifier and a pair of Celestion MP1
speakers. Since I only got the control box of R-301 I
compared it in mono only, the bass and treble are set
to nutral position in the R-301 and the tone control
on AU-D907 is disabled. Compared to the reference
system, R-301 has the same transparent sound, bass is
effortless, mellow and warm in the mid range, a little
bit darker in treble but details is still present. The
engineer commented he deliberately made the treble
darker to give a vintage feeling, the tone control
will allow users to fine tune the sound.

In the reception side, R-301 received all local FM stations
clearly using the built-in attena, in AM band R-301
has good reception on local stations, background noise
is lower than a few modern portable radios I own.