tivoli table radio

Yes, I have one - for the money it is excellent, and the internal radio works well. The sound is surprisingly engaging (compared to other table radios) and it reproduces both orchestral music and voice superbly, though I find it a little bass heavy for more compressed stations.

Superb little radio, mono rules!

TC '..'
"Girl, you thought he was a man, but he was a Muffin..."

Hi!
got two of them.
One in the kitchen and one in my practice.
Go and buy!
Really good value for money.

Gunnar

see old tivilo thread

It also has a socket for an external aerial which I have connected to a cable service with excellent results.

Just ordered a mini-jack to DIN lead from Audience in Bath - only £42.99. Will report how it sounds through the Naim rig as soon as it arrives. Sounds splendid on it's own regardless and picks up lots of stations.

One just like mine:


They ought to have an owners club!

Steve

I can wholeheartedly endorse the comments above. I've had one for about 6 months and continue to be knocked out by it's performance. Not only does it sound great (using it's internal aerial) but it's a hugely satisfying piece of kit to own.

Dave

for goodness sake, you'll be buying Bose next

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Just ordered a mini-jack to DIN lead from Audience in Bath - only £42.99.

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Shurely shome mishtake - did you get the decimal point in the wrong place - I hope so

David

Nope, the decimal place is in the correct position. I say 'only' as Master Randle advised me that splashing out on an 02 might not be the best idea seeing as the 02 is 'highly selective' rather than 'highly sensitive' as per the Tivoli, and me living in a poor FM reception area.

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RockedOutDoc said:
'for goodness sake, you'll be buying Bose next'

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Well, you'd know about dodgy gear now wouldn't you

Steve

yep! I've bought Bose too in my time

...we just called it Henry and he is very popular. Makes an amazing sound and I get to hear NYC stations that are unavailable in the car.

David

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I say 'only' as Master Randle advised me that splashing out on an 02 might not be the best idea seeing as the 02 is 'highly selective' rather than 'highly sensitive' as per the Tivoli, and me living in a poor FM reception area.

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Surely a high gain selective antenna (with rotator, if necessary for your geographic location)into an 02 would be a superior solution? That would allow the 02 to then select the greater signal available to it? Good antenna overcomes sensitivity isses.

Rico - SM/Mullet Audio

Steve Dempster said:

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I say 'only' as Master Randle advised me that splashing out on an 02 might not be the best idea seeing as the 02 is 'highly selective' rather than 'highly sensitive' as per the Tivoli, and me living in a poor FM reception area.

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I didn't say that at all!! I said to get a go ahead and get a NAT02, but make sure you use a good broadband antenna on your roof.

Even then it won't be as sensitive as your Tivoli in that it probably won't receive as many radio stations. Anyway you buy a NAT02 for quality not quantity.

Andrew

Andrew Randle
"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." Frank Zappa

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Andrew Randle said:
'Anyway you buy a NAT02 for quality not quantity'

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Not if you can only pick up Bristol FM you don't!

Rico, these directional widgets the bizz-nezz then? (e-mail is on the tortoise btw :-0 )

Cheers,

Steve

Got a Model One. Fab little box which fills the ground floor of the house with music. When we were on holiday a couple of weeks ago, it was on more than the main HiFi, since you don't have to change/sides/swap Cd's etc... and the sound quality is pretty good. That said, it's not for all people (and I've a feeling it's a bit support sensitive) since my manager hated the thing saying it was overblown and woolly.

Kit - there is a battery version. Can't remember the model number. It's battery powered (rechargeable built-in if memory serves) and a semi-water-resistant plastic cabinet. Looks quite different to the model one because of that, but it was considered necessary since the application would be out at a picnic/in the bathroom. Saw it at the hiFi show in the Ruark stand...

Regards,
Frank.
All opinions are my own and do not reflect the opinion of any organisations I work for, except where this is stated explicitly.

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the sound quality is pretty good. That said, it's not for all people (and I've a feeling it's a bit support sensitive) since my manager hated the thing saying it was overblown and woolly.

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Oh No! - do I detect another M**a thread coming on?


David

We have one of these in the kitchen. It replaced a Panasonic stereo cassette/radio, which I never really liked, about 3 months ago. We love it. The reception is MUCH better than the Panasonic, and it sounds fantastic. One of my friends, who was bought a Roberts for his birthday, is quite envious (both for visual & sound quality). It's on every day (pretty much fixed to R4 with occasional forays into R3).

For me, The Tivoli is much closer to the Naim ethos than that of Bose, simple, mono, functional. Even the design echoes the Naim kit, albeit with a wooden sleeve. The signal strength LED works really well.

We got the one as pictured earlier in this thread, with the white face. It fits in with our kitchen perfectly.

Aaah, sitting at the kitchen table after supper, with a cuppa, listening to the latest shenanigans from Ambridge; life has some good moments.

Regards,

Will.

P.S. We're in a poor reception area (or our kitchen is), we use the external wire aerial that came with the unit. Works perfectly.

thanks for all the replies. went down to the local Harvey Electronics and picked out a cobalt blue with cherry wood. Sounds very good and gets most of the stations I am interested in. Looks well made and in the US it only costs $100. I gather that in england, it is 100 pounds. I like it! david.

Vuk,

Seeing as your will be hanging in front of your PC whilst in the home office, and assuming that the Tivoli proves unsuitable, then why not consider a pair of higher quality PC speakers (they do exist) and plug a half decent tuner round back.

I have an older pair of largish Altec Lansing (gulp!) self-powered jobs (<$100.) and they sound surprisingly good with a late model used Kenwood tuner ($25. at Cash Converters) into the spare jack.

I've got Ross Porter spinning Jazz on Radio 2 as I type and it really is a very enjoyable near field monitor like experience. One of those 'I can't help but inch the volume knob up' type listening sessions eventually ensues whenever I listen while working/surfing (i.e. most days).

If a particular performance takes my fancy I don't have to spoil the mood by running upstairs in order to tune it in on the main system. Somehow these manage to keep the sound together at suprisingly loud volume levels. Fully cranked, I can enjoy them out in the driveway whilst washing the cars!

I have gone so far as to put a Chord Crysalis RCA to mini jack interconnect in ($130. ouch!) that I had originally bought for use with a Walkman Pro. A mini to mini between the CD-ROM drives headphone jack and speakers (bypassing the sound card) offers another useable source that is at least good enough for proofing burned CDs if not casual background listening.

I spent some considerable time auditioning the market offerings before deciding upon this pair (imagine the look on the Future Shop 'Consultant's' face when a home dem is requested). They really are solidly built and musical. I haven't a clue as to whether they still make anything like them but I imagine that someone does.

BTW, hope to hook up soon for a listen chez Vuk before your exodus to Metropolis.

Craig

Richard Brett said,

"Bought the new 'Model Two' stereo version at the Heathrow Show. Radio reception suffers a bit compared with the mono version, and the external ribbon ariel is really neccessary"

Have been flirting with the idea of getting a Tivoli for awhile and with the recent Hi Fi+ review and this posting it is now a certainty. I love mono, often preferring it to stereo. However the idea of building a little Tivoli system with CD and subwoofer is pretty seductive so...

Anyone else compared the one to the two? IS this the only difference? Does the external ribbon aerial bring it up to the model one's reception? Does anyone know if the model two has a mono switch? I often use the mono switch on my old second hand Yamaha tuner for superior FM reception.

Thanks for the great post all. Finally something on the forum a new father can actually afford!

Cheers,
Garth

Changeme20 asked:

"has anyone been able to hook the tivoli up on to a naim system via the jack plug??"

Yes I have, and it does sound exactly the same! Remember, source first. If you want a HIFI tuner, this is not. I even tried it the other way around, CDSII feading the Tivoli, and it sounded quite decent.

JohanR

bloody hell.

I have both the Tivoli, which I use at work, and a Bose, which I use at home and I have to say the Tivoli is MUCH better. I love the mono version and enjoy the reception. I have mine connected to my laptop and listen to streaming jazz from Pittsburgh and the sound is sublime!
The Bose is OK for my wife to listen to her CD's. I won't let her near my Naim stuff because she is a disaster around technical stuff. Just ask my car!!
Smiglass

ignore - dbl post sorry. please delete

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Rico - SM/Mullet Audio