{"id":31305,"date":"2018-03-23T06:36:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T10:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=31305"},"modified":"2018-03-23T06:54:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T10:54:41","slug":"the-new-tivoli-model-one-digital-has-am-for-australians-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/the-new-tivoli-model-one-digital-has-am-for-australians-only\/","title":{"rendered":"The new Tivoli Model One Digital has AM (for Australians only)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dennis Dura, who shares the following article from\u00a0The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>\u00a0(my comments follow):<\/p>\n

Australians like AM radio, but it’s just about impossible to find a good quality digital radio with AM. Lots of digitals get FM, so why no AM?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s because Australia is an unusual market for radios. We\u2019re not like Asia, Europe, Japan and America where practically all radios are designed and manufactured. These places have large populations in high densities, and one population hub is seldom far from the next. The range limitations of both digital and FM are seldom an issue.<\/p>\n

But in Australia we have digital broadcasting only in the capital cities, meaning Brisbane\u2019s digital radio stations are 900 kilometres from the next nearest in Sydney, leaving about 800 kilometres of dead air between. Digital can\u2019t even hold between Sydney and Canberra. FM lasts a bit longer, not much. But with good old AM you can listen to Darwin from the Nullarbor Plain when the conditions are right. Through vast tracts of Australia if you don\u2019t have AM you don\u2019t have radio.<\/p>\n

So Gary Tye\u2019s challenge when he took on distribution of the Tivoli brand was to convince people in Boston that Australians will actively seek out and buy a digital radio with AM. They took a lot of convincing.<\/p>\n

And so the $449 Tivoli Model One Digital is now available with AM, as well as FM and digital. But only in Australia. Caravanners around this wide brown land will rejoice; there\u2019s at last a good sounding digital radio that will work anywhere.<\/p>\n

[…]The sound quality is, as a very honest department store salesman observed, good but not great. I remember the original as being better. The bass can become ragged down low and the definition gets a bit fuzzy at high volumes, but for filling a study, a kitchen or indeed a caravan with good music the Tivoli does an entirely respectable job. It\u2019s not on a par with a Wave Radio but it costs half as much and sounds better than the vast bulk of radios, be they digital or analogue. And it has AM.<\/span><\/p>\n

It also has Spotify, Tidal, Deezer and Wi-Fi to get internet radio. There\u2019s Bluetooth and you can hook in your phone or music player with a cable to the 3.5 mm auxiliary input.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article at The Sydney Morning Herald.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks for the tip, Dennis!<\/p>\n

I owned the original Tivoli Model One and loved it. I recently gave it away while thinning the herd here at SWLing Post<\/em> HQ. Though it was an elegant, simple radio with excellent audio characteristics, so is my Como Audio Solo<\/a> which essentially replaced the Model One.<\/p>\n

While the Model One Digital is appealing in many respects, reviews are lukewarm at best. Customers complain about the proprietary app, the audio being too heavy on processed bass and the overall performance not matching that of its predecessor.<\/p>\n

While the Model One Digital is a “WiFi” radio, it doesn’t seem to connect to any of the streaming radio station aggregators<\/a> we radio enthusiasts rely on to tune to our favorite obscure local stations on the other side of the planet. It appears to only connect to paid music streaming services and one’s own local digital library (though please correct me if I’m wrong about this!).<\/p>\n

Post<\/em> readers:<\/strong> Any Tivoli Model One Digital owners out there?\u00a0 I’d love to read your reviews!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dennis Dura, who shares the following article from\u00a0The Sydney Morning Herald\u00a0(my comments follow): Australians like AM radio, but it’s just about impossible to find a good quality digital radio with AM. Lots of digitals get FM, so why no AM? It\u2019s because Australia is an unusual market for radios. 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