MINe 109 wrote:
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"Anthony D. Minkoff" wrote:
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I don't see a downside to the Kloss/Tivoli: it will work, be attractive
and be relatively cheap. I suppose you could look at the competition
(Cambridge Soundworks, Boston Acoustics) that might give you stereo but
not necessarily more enjoyable sound. You could spend more on a mini
system from Denon or Panasonic, or less on a GE Superadio.

Be aware GE Superadios have had horrible QA and often have distortion
problems relating to FM alignment on production radios. They are easy
to fix for me but I have a RF gen, a low distortion audio gen and a
distortion meter and most people do not. I have also seen them with
rubbing voice coils on the woofer.

The Kloss or Tivoli radios are pretty good.

An often surprisingly good alternative is a car radio in a small wood
box with a 12 volt supply built in. Commercial "brick" switcher
supplies are available or can be scrounged from dead widgets, or a
toroid power transformer, a bridge rectifier moodule and a big
electrolytic cap can be had for $25 or so. OEM car radios often have
excellent FM sections. The last Parts Express catalog lists a Blaupunkt
AM/FM/CD player with remote and MP3 CD capability for $108. I put a
similar Blaupunkt in my car last year. Before mounting in the car I
powered it up with an ancient Lambda bench supply and hooked it to my
main stereo speakers in the listening room as an experiment. It sounded
good and the FM tuner was excellent-with an improvised long random
wire it got FM stations clearly that a boom box would not even notice
above the noise floor.