Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyone know of a good tiny FM radio for Audioengine A2 plus SB3 kitchen setup?

2008-04-04 Thread DCtoDaylight
The Tivoli stuff is nice, but you're missing the part of the original post: the active loudspeakers (audioengine A2's). What GVH is really looking for is a preamp/FM tuner. I can't suggest one of those, but if you don't mind changing from an active to as passive speaker, what you're looking for

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyone know of a good tiny FM radio for Audioengine A2 plus SB3 kitchen setup?

2008-04-03 Thread bpa
dennis55 Wrote: > > BPA,have a look at the TIVOLI Audio mk1 by Henry Kloss. > The op is gvh not me. I already have a Tivoli PAL, a PC tuner card (hooked up to cable supplied FM) and a Griffin Radio Shark. My suggestion was that instead of having two boxes in the Kitchen, gvh could have a re

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyone know of a good tiny FM radio for Audioengine A2 plus SB3 kitchen setup?

2008-04-03 Thread Pale Blue Ego
Yes, or the Tivoli iPal. That would work in a kitchen environment. -- Pale Blue Ego Pale Blue Ego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=110 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.p

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyone know of a good tiny FM radio for Audioengine A2 plus SB3 kitchen setup?

2008-04-03 Thread dennis55
BPA,have a look at the TIVOLI Audio mk1 by Henry Kloss. i have one here as my bedside radio and can thoroughly recommend it. you could connect a SB3 to the input on the rear and utilise the superb wee built in speaker of the Tivoli. just my tuppence worth!. cheers dennis -- dennis55 -

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyone know of a good tiny FM radio for Audioengine A2 plus SB3 kitchen setup?

2008-04-03 Thread gvh
We often use the FM receiver in our main amp in the living room so I want FM in the kitchen to 'sync' with it the old fashioned way. It's not going to be as easy as I thought, I'll need to get an aerial feed to it from the roof's aerial distribution amplifier and that's not funny when you've rec

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyone know of a good tiny FM radio for Audioengine A2 plus SB3 kitchen setup?

2008-04-03 Thread Pale Blue Ego
Why not just use the SB for radio? Most commercial stations have an online stream. -- Pale Blue Ego Pale Blue Ego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=110 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyone know of a good tiny FM radio for Audioengine A2 plus SB3 kitchen setup?

2008-04-03 Thread bpa
An alternative would be add FM capability to the PC running SC and route radio through the SC. Users have used TV Tuner cards or Griffin Radio Shark to do this. See http://forums.slimdevices.com/archive/index.php/t-36535.html -- bpa ---

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Anyone know of a good tiny FM radio for Audioengine A2 plus SB3 kitchen setup?

2008-04-03 Thread gvh
Hi, my plan is to make the kitchen our third Squeeze-enabled room. I'm planning on buying a set of Audioengine A2. I was wondering if anyone could recommend a matching FM radio receiver? (I'm in the UK) ie something tiny that could be tucked away somewhere. Yes I really want an FM radio over DAB