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Tivoli Audio's classic 2000 Model Ane table radio gets a consummate makeover 17 years later. The Model 1 Digital, announced this week, adds Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections to stream music from your smartphone, PC, or the Web. It however tunes FM directly, but Tivoli dropped AM radio. Adding an optional second speaker (above photo) turns it into a stereo radio, and adding more speakers turns it into a multi-room system. The display is now digital. In that location'southward simply one visible knob — the volume control — and the circular bezel around the display is the tuning knob. The toll is now $300, or twice what the classic Model One radio currently costs. Information technology ships March 20th.

In simplifying the Model One Digital, Tivoli says the pattern is better than ever and more streamlined. Maybe. It may also confuse the heck out of house guests if y'all've got i in the spare bedroom, because it's no longer crystal-clear how to plow it on, or tune, or switch from radio to, say, smartphone music.

Tivoli's original Model One radio ($150), left, and Model Ane Digital ($300).

More music sources than ever

The original Model One has a aux-in jack to plug in, say, a Sony Discman CD player. It's nevertheless there on the Model I Digital (photograph inset). The big comeback comes from the addition of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. A smartphone app for iOS and Android straight melody Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, TuneIn, and QQ Music. Annihilation else can exist tuned on your PC or other device and streamed to the Model One Digital. For countries where information technology's offered, the Model One Digital will melody DAB (digital audio dissemination).

Tivoli says the sound electronics and tuner have been improved, as has the single speaker, at present seen as a rectangle rather than circle. The digital display has smallish fonts; they may be hard to make out as a bedside radio for people who've taken off their spectacles for the night. The initial radios volition come in walnut, black, or white wood finishes with Danish speaker grille fabrics.

ConX Wi-Fi transceiver ($sixty), gives legacy Tivoli and other products music streaming features.

Backwards compatibility with older radios

Over the years, the Tivoli Audio collection grew with multiple wood and faceplate types. There'southward the current version of the Model One without and with Bluetooth ($150, $180). There's the battery powered PAL BT (Portable Audio Laboratory with Bluetooth, $200), the stereo Music System 3 ($250) and the Model Three BT clock radio ($300).

Cocky-powered Cube ($200) and Fine art Speaker ($250) speakers provide stereo and multi-room audio. With multi-room, Tivoli is trying to take on manufacture leader Sonos, the start company to create wireless multi-room systems where the music was in sync in every room — no easy trick unless the speakers are hard-wired.

Tivoli's $60 ConX box gives streaming audio capabilities to all its legacy systems. And then if you've got a Tivoli unit already, y'all tin go along using information technology.

Contenders for high-end, like shooting fish in a barrel-to-utilise radios and music players

Como Audio Ambiente

The Boston expanse spawned many sound companies that changed and simplified the process of playing music that sounded good. I was Bose, founded by MIT grad and prof Amar Bose and currently selling the Soundtouch Music System Four ($600). Another was Acoustic Research, co-founded in the 1950s by Henry Kloss, who went on to establish or develop for KLH (which sold a Model Eight radio), Advent, Cambridge SoundWorks (which sold clock and table radios as well equally speakers). CSW founders left to constitute other audio firms. Kloss and CSW'southward Tom DeVesto constitute Tivoli Audio in 2000; Kloss died in 2002 and DeVesto left in 2022 to found Como Sound; like Tivoli, Como sells mono and stereo radio units ($300-$450) that tin can also stream music to one or multiple rooms. Another CSW adjunct, Zvox Audio, sells TV audio bars. It's like anatomy of a rock band, without the groupies.

There are others, including Cue, Revo, Grace, Pure, Sangean, and the retro Crosley. If you lot're shopping, check for these features in case they matter to you lot: AM as well as FM, Hd radio, digital radio, and Wi-Fi for streaming. Also check that you, or a friend, tin brand it work without e'er opening the user transmission.