Tivoli Audio Model One Bluetooth AM/FM Radio (Walnut/Beige)

This little radio well exceeds all my expectations!I was looking for something small and compact for a kitchen radio. I considered a Bluetooth speaker, or a streaming speaker (such as a Sonos Play 1) but decided to go with the Tivoli Model One. I like the traditional radio look and the wood cabinet and almond colored face blends right in with my kitchen.The radio seems well crafted, the feel of the tuner is smooth, and it doesn’t drift. The best part is the sound! I wasn’t expecting such a robust sound from such a small device. It has crisp highs, smooth midrange, and an impressive low-end response. The Bluetooth feature is outstanding as well. I simply switched it to BT, and it appeared in my Bluetooth settings on my phone. I selected it and done! Simple as that. No fuss, no pairing procedure, just select and play.Some may think that it’s a bit expensive for a small table top radio, but it’s not your low end, plastic, squawking, bargain basement product. The Tivoli Model One is a well crafted, esthetically pleasing, nice sounding radio that you can certainly enjoy. Just get one!

Our new Tivoli Audio radio arrived, a welcome addition to our new kitchen. Tivoli makes this unit in a number of combinations of face and cabinet colors, and apparently my choice was not popular, because it took about a month for it to ship after I ordered it.But that's to be expected if you're dealing with Henry Kloss, the high fidelity pioneer who is the brains behind Tivoli audio products. You see, in the early days of hi-fi the notion of waiting for custom cabinetry for your audio components was as much a part of the mystique of high end products as what was in them.Fortunately the insides of the Tivoli One BT seem to live up to the notion that everything old is new again. I love electronics that are bone simple in design and excellent in everything else, and this unit doesn't disappoint. It's a monaural radio with a dial for tuning stations, a twist volume control, a small yellow light to aid tuning accuracy, a simple twist selector for AM, FM or auxiliary inputs - and that's it.What you do get, though, is one excellent little speaker with a ported cabinet to boost bass performance, an excellent tuner, smooth electronics and the option to use Bluetooth enabled devices as auxiliary inputs. The Bluetooth option is a pricey add-on, so either they're soaking technophiles or stuck with complicated options for producing a techie add-on that melds well with audiophile components. I'll assume the latter for now, but I do wonder.The user manual warns that pairing Bluetooth units may take some patience, and for my Nexus 7 tablet it did take a few minutes to get the pairing to work. However, my Galaxy Nexus phone paired in just a few seconds and neither unit required entering a pairing code. Once paired, the Bluetooth audio is certainly sweet, as is the FM sound. Included is an inobtrusive FM antenna that plugs into a coax cable connector, which I added on, though reception seemed good without it. Helpful hint: remember to throw the switch on the back of the unit when you install the external antenna, otherwise it won't boost the signal.In a kitchen filled with state of the art appliances that seem to have a lot to say to us, the Tivoli One BT is a welcome change of pace. You turn it on, it plays music - or podcasts. That's it. Perfect for my wonderful analog wife, and just right for me. You could spend lots less or lots more for a compact radio, but for the money the Tivoli One BT is a great value if the best of old skool and nu skool audio matters to you.

We originally found this speaker in an AirBnB we stayed in and knew we had to have one in our home. It puts out excellent sound and is now a staple in our kitchen for listening to music and football games broadcasted on our local radio station. It's small, sleek, and super easy to set up.

What my wife really wanted was "a little radio to listen to NPR in the kitchen." It does exactly that, it does it PERFECTLY, and I don't know of any other product that would do it as well.We considered a "smart speaker" but didn't like a) dependence on WiFi and internet, b) privacy concerns, or c) occasionally erratic interpretation of voice commands we've experienced with Siri etc. on other devices.This was our second try because originally neither of us wanted to pay that much money, so a few years ago I bought an offbrand radio for $40 at T. J. Maxx... and it was ugly, it was weird, it didn't feel like "quality," and you sometimes had to jiggle the DC-in power cord and a switch next to it to get it to work. And it finally broke.The Bluetooth is iffy, as most Bluetooth devices without touchscreen controls are. I mostly got it on a whim--it doesn't complicate things much, it just adds _one_ position to a selector switch. It happens that it does work with the Bluetooth audio transmitter I connected to our TV set, so it lets my wife do another thing she wanted--listen to the audio of the TV news when she is in the kitchen.We get good FM reception for the stations we want, and this radio is completely solid, picks them up easily, looks like it probably has AFC but in any case it doesn't drift.The sound quality is what you'd have described decades ago as "a good table radio with a nice clear tone" for both speech and music. It isn't anything for an audiophile.If you think what you want is a good, simple, high-quality table radio, this is it.