TEAC R1 Premium Edition AM/FM Mono Radio (Black)
The mission of Teac is to effectively develop, manufacture, market and support a diversity of innovative, technologically advanced devices that benefit customers and contribute to the profitability of the company. Teac's vision is to be recognized as a responsive, global supplier of consistently high-quality products that enhance the capabilities and fulfill the needs of those who use them.PRODUCT FEATURES:High-Quality AM/FM analog tuner;Gear-reduction tuning dial for ultra-fine tuning;Built-in rechargeable battery;Separate bass and treble controls;Large rotary volume control;Function Selector: AM/FM/AUX/OFF;Integrated handle for easy portability;Telescoping FM antenna for outdoor use;FM "pigtail-type" antenna for indoor use.
Delightfully retro in style but featuring audio performance befitting of today, the TEAC R1 Premium Edition AM/FM radio delivers clear, full-range sound via its built-in mono speaker. It will look great sitting on a tabletop or your office desk, but it can also be used as a portable radio with the integrated rechargeable battery (charged by the included AC adapter). It has a large rotary volume control and gear-reduction tuning dial for ultra-fine tuning. With separate bass and treble controls, you'll be able to make whatever you listen to sound just right. It offers a rear-panel headphone jack for private listening as well as a mini-jack auxiliary input, enabling you to use the R1 as an external speaker for your iPod or portable CD player--it even comes with a mini-to-mini cable. Other features include a built-in ferrite AM antenna, telescoping FM antenna for outdoor use, pigtail-style FM antenna for indoor use, integrated handle, and function selector (AM, AM, auxiliary, off). This unit comes in black, but it's also available in white. What's in the Box
Radio (black) with integrated rechargeable battery, AC adapter, auxiliary cable (mini-to-mini), FM antenna, printed operating instructions
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TEAC R1 Premium Edition AM/FM Mono Radio (Black) Reviews
It's a nice little portable radio, of course, with a decent AM-FM analog tuning system. Up to the day I bought my Teac R1, the only complaint I had was that I had to stay close to the laptop to hear sound from its tiny speakers. The addition of its internal battery recharging system (it has the kind of battery you'd see in a cordless telephone) bursts it into at least the 90s. Now I can move the laptop to the garden, the basement, the driveway and the garage and take the compact but sturdy R1 with me. The design is simple and elegant.
It's not a clock radio and it's not a boombox. It's amazing. I'm not sure how high the price would have to be for me to be dissatisfied.
Our world has become a place of unimaginable communications. Some people look at this as a table radio, but there are many with better sound (such as radios from Boston Acoustics and Sangean). The R1 is loud enough and easy enough to tune and its charge lasts long enough to complete most weekend tasks.
I can sit in my garage in the midwest and listen to a college football game from a small radio station in Texas on my laptop with the magic of audio streaming and wi-fi. It's intended to remind us of portable radios from the 60s, and it does. It's identity is focused on the small metal handle on one end that begs you to pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
I just connect the laptop to the Teac with a cable, turn the selector to AUX and I'm in Aggieland. I bought mine (it's white, not black) at an outlet for about $45 and that was a fine deal.
The dial has some gearing inside that steps down the turning speed, which makes it much easier to fine tune a station's signal. In short, it looks good, sounds good, and works great. The action on the dial is wonderfully smooth, and especially important for European stations since they can come in one frequencies ending in even numbers (89.6, 102.8, etc) as opposed to American stations (93.7, 101.3, etc).
We love connecting it to an iPod with the included cord, and best of all we can just clip the iPod onto the handle and it's one convenient bundle. If you need a radio in your kitchen (and really, who doesn't)., this is the radio for you. We live in Germany, so we need to use a transformer to step down the voltage to 120V (the plug says only 120V/60Hz), but the battery performance has not suffered at all, even on 50Hz.
My wife and I have had this radio for close to six months now and we couldn't be happier with it. The handle on the side makes it possible to pick up with one or two fingers for those times when your hands are full. The flat bottom and side make it possible to set the radio down as pictured, or on its side, which saves precious counter space in our little kitchen.
CC Radio Plus, Grundig S350, both decent radios but totally mediocre sound quality-give me the 1973-74 Panasonic RF-1060 anyday). I picked it up and it had a quality feel to it. I really liked the simplicity of this radio, just a few small dials on top for bass and treble (finally). BTW, there's a third LED on top for the power on switch. I find myself enjoying this the most.I can carry it with me with it's rechargeable built-in batteries. Otherwise this is a GEM. My only complaint is that the station numbers are TINY, and very difficult to see, especially in low light.
I was auditioning the Tivoli Model One(which seems to cost $119 just about everywhere)in a local audio store. Anyway, I found this little gem for MUCH less than the Tivoli. A tiny neon blue LED indicates which band you're on, one on top for FM and one below the dial for AM. and a power/band/aux switch. Oh, one last thing.my mp3 player sounds awesome also. Zero bells and whistles except for a vertically mounted handle along the left side, which looks good and is sturdy and practical. However battery power lasts only about 3.5 hours and not the 6-7 they state in the manual.
Any questions just ask. LOL. Sure enough, it has awesome and very powerful sound, and would even for a radio 3 times its size. I continued looking around when I came upon a black TEAC R1 perched on a shelf near the check-out counter.
I'm serious. Try THAT with a Tivoli. The signal was strong and the sound coming out of this little R1 was AWESOME. I had read about it but had never seen one up close that I could listen to. The tuning dial is large and has a smooth quality feel when you turn it.just as good, maybe even better than the Tivoli.
I've had this radio for about 10 days now (btw, I also just got TEAC SRL50 and Sony's ICF-M1000.stay tuned). I've heard people complain about them being distracting, but I think they add a nice unobtrusive modern touch to an otherwise retro black box. Hope this is helpful. It's a bit of a chore to travel from one end of the band to the other. I mean, the kind of sound you just don't hear anymore in portables (i.e.
If you don't change stations, this is not an issue. And if you do change stations often, there are no memory preset buttons.
And as a bonus, it's not only small, but it's beautifully styled as well. It won't fill the room with powerful sound like the Tivoli, but at normal listening levels, the sound is warm, rich, and can be tailored to your liking via the bass/treble controls.
I turned it on and tuned in a rock station here in NYC. Update 5/18/08: Still a great radio.
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The Teac R1 AM/FM radio is a good little unit - good sound compared to most small radios. Subtle cabinet design instead of flashy, in-your-face, juvenile cabinets that seem to be so popular.
I was looking for a small radio I could listen to NPR at work on. However, after listening to my ipod plugged in through the aux input I would not recommend buying it for this feature alone. This radio fits my needs perfectly. If you're looking for something with great sound to plug your ipod into, look elsewhere. In sum, it's a great product if you're like me and simply wanted a small good looking radio for work. This is the only radio I could find that was moderately priced, small enough to put on a work desk and looked nice enough to keep in an office. The mono speaker is very passable for talk radio, but it makes the songs on my ipod sound thin and shallow.
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