Customer Reviews for Tivoli Audio - Model One Shelf Speaker with Wood Finish - Walnut/Beige
Customer Rating
5
Seniors elder care purchase
on September 16, 2024
Posted by: joyce t.
from US, United States
This radio was purchased for my mother. She lives in a nursing home and is somewhat hard of hearing. I purchased a Tivoli because I know the quality of the radios have optimum sound and an easy to handle knob if my mom wanted to try and find a station on her own. I grew up watching my parents dance to Motown and early on, she and my dad introduced jazz to me and my brothers. It was important to me that my mom has great quality sound for whatever bit of music she can hear. She loves this radio. One of her CNA’s told me that some evenings they put on Spanish music and they dance slow in her room. This radio has brought joy to one room where a senior lives.
This small but might little radio sounds great. A huge step up from the radio in my old Sony AM/FM CD player. I love that it is compact. A great machine and affordable.
I initially bought the radio because of its aesthetics. The silver and white make an attractive combination. When it arrived I immediately noted the solid construction of the cabinet and the pleasing weight. When I tuned to a station the sound filled the room. The dials move smoothly and pleasingly. Overall a high quality, beautiful radio well worth the price paid.
I am very disappointed in the quality of the audio - which was the main reason for the purchase. Even with the antenna up and in a capture range, the audio fades in and out. Hard to keep my favorite stations in tune.
This new one is a very good radio. However, the reception is not as good and the wood box and face panel not as elegant as the decades old Henry Kloss Model One it replaced when it's volume control stopped working.
This little tabletop radio was a replacement for a compact radio CD player that died after 20 years, kind of unexpectedly and mysteriously. In some ways, it is a downgrade, because it is simply an AM/FM radio. No CD and I decided not to pay extra for the Bluetooth, since I rarely used the receiver for anything but radio. But this is a major improvement because the other devise was too complicated (too many buttons) and tuning was a pain and the reception was often off or required a lot of adjustment with cumbersome antennas. This radio comes with a single old-fashioned metal extending antenna that my wife had assumed was now obsolete (but I assured her is not) and there is a handy little light that turns green when you tune in sufficiently to get a solid reception. It is all that I desired and was looking for. I now have a great-sounding radio for my public radio station and it sounds good when they stop talking and they play music as well.