Tivoli Audio iPAL Portable Audio Laboratory AM/FM Radio, Silver/White
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Customer Review: Tivoli Audie iPal portable radio
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful little radio. I bought it for my husband the audiophile, who enjoys relaxing after a hard day on the screened porched, with the news or his ipod. The sound quality of this small package is rich, tuner and reception are terrific. Won me lots of points.
Customer Review: Horrible Battery Life
Summary: 2 Stars
I have now had two of these in three years. After a year or so, you ahve to replace the expensive battery pack. I am very disappointed.Customer Review: A great beater
Summary: 5 Stars
I got mine years ago when they first came out. The style, the soft beauty of whatever sort of rubbery-flocksy kind of finish, the legendary designer and the promised performance was compelling enough to buy.
The controls are especially nice, with a precise and quality feel to them. The radio is very heavy for its size, obviously filled with good stuff, the reception is much better than my BMW's radio parked in the same location and it has a nice, quality sound to it. The battery lasts a long time.
If played alongside my Sony clock radio of about the same size, the difference is huge and the Tivoli weighs about 3X as much!
Mine was to be used as an inside radio, but hasn't been in the house for many years now. It is in the garage, the shop, the yard and even gone fishing. It has acquired a patina of heavy and inappropriate use, a real beater that would not look good in the house at all now.
The battery pack finally died after a, has it really been that long?, decade (!) of constant use. I ordered a new one, and an antenna as the old one was broken in half after a fall off a fence.
The parts were shipped promptly and now it is as good as new functionally. Nothing will remove the grease, bent grill, fish juice, charcoal smudges, etc.
All well worth it, though.
Customer Review: The little radio that could... be better.
Summary: 4 Stars
My two cents here only reinforces what a few others have said before. This compact and rugged little radio has impressive sound and better than average reception. I can pull in every station in my town with only minor adjustments to its antenna for FM and positional changes of the entire box for AM.
Truly, the sound quality and frequency response is surprising. It has a bit of that Bose wow factor to it. It gets decent lows and highs at a very listenable level without any distortion. Any audiophile would appreciate its overall output.
So here is what keeps this little piece of ear candy from receiving all 5 stars: the dreaded rechargeable and thus, irreplaceable battery. I know these things don't last forever in any piece of electronic crap that we use, but when a rechargeable and irreplaceable battery quits recharging, it changes the whole point of its existence. Now I have a nice sounding radio that must stay tethered to its electrical umbilical cord, greatly limiting its usefulness to me. Normally, she followed me out to the garden to keep the pesky sounds of nature at bay. No longer. My ears are now under constant assault from the birds, bees, and my neighbors' various gas-powered lawn gear.
Want a radio for your nightstand or bathroom? Perhaps one for your crawlspace at work? Then this will fit the bill. Otherwise, stay away from rechargeable units. We all know that "rechargeable" is a euphemism for "temporary" which all batteries are anyway.
Customer Review: Ideal computer speaker, iPod/MP3 pal and radio
Summary: 5 Stars
I've fooled around with two many speaker systems for iPods/MP3 players and computers. I now realize the iPAL/PAL from Tivoli is just about ideal, especially if portability is key. I'm using it right now as a computer speaker at work with Slacker. I used it at home via an in-house FM transmitter system to listen to audio streams or iTunes, or on the deck with an iPod connected. It's not stereo and you can't adjust the treble or bass, but the battery charge is decent and the sound is very good. No throbbing bass, but often bass on small units is boomy and unnatural. I recently bought an iHome OutLoud speaker for work because it was waaay reduced. Shoulda known why: OK, flat-ish sound, vaguely disconcerting. The PAL's sound is just right. It's perfectly attuned for normal listening. Pleasantly pleasing. No bombastics or overkill. It's versatile, easy to tote around, operates easily, and the radio tuner/antenna deliver excellent reception. Instead of buying a boombox, computer speakers, iPod speakers, get one or two of these and you'll be in the don't worry, be happy zone.