[TimSchirmer]

I would just get a tivoli system, but it is too much to carry home every day. I'd get the cambridge model 88 (or whatever new one they have) but it doesn't have a CD player. Does anyone know of anything that sounds halfway decent that I can keep on my desk to break the monotony semiconductor testing? I don't really want to have headphones because i get up and down from my desk often.

I could just get a PAL, but then I'd have to suffer through the bad radio stations in Los Angeles

(some of the classical ones are pretty decent though)

Suggestions please!

Edit: And i don't want the bose wave radio because it is... bose

 

[SBomm]

Doesn't the PAL have a line in? If so it might work well with a portabel CD player.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

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Originally posted by TimSchirmer I would just get a tivoli system, but it is too much to carry home every day.

Something you have to carry home every day? Urgh...other than that, the Tivoli system qualifies...

You want good sound, something you can carry home every day, but not headphones?

I'm not sure such a beast exists, but if it does, I'd be interested as well.

 

[TimSchirmer]

Im looking into the nakamichi sound space 1 right now. Is it any good? Anyone have experience?

I might just hook the PAL up to a D-25S, but i hate the idea of stereo recordings in mono.

Edit... forget the soundspace, unless there is some way to attach the speakers to the main unit.

 

[Czilla9000]

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Originally posted by SBomm Doesn't the PAL have a line in? If so it might work well with a portabel CD player.

I have done that with a PAL. It works. The only thing is don't have it play anything too bombastic. Whenever I tried to play Gladiator on it I got massive distortion.

 

[TimSchirmer]

You too? When i auditioned one of those in the store i noticed the same thing (i figured it was just bad reception)

Perhaps these arent all they are cracked up to be.

 

[longship]

I just plugged the output to my sound card into the PAL's "Aux In" and cranked up Wagner's "Das Rheingold" (encoded from Solti's "Golden Ring" set using the lame R3Mix preset). This recording is rated as a sonic spectacular.

The results? I don't hear the distortion mentioned in this thread. To the contrary, the little PAL handled everything I could shove at it with aplumb (clean sound consistent with the PAL's small 2.5 inch speaker). It could be that what's happening is that you are over-driving the PAL's input.. This has been mentioned in other threads in these forums.

 

[MacDEF]

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Originally posted by TimSchirmer i hate the idea of stereo recordings in mono.

IMO, "stereo" is overrated in boomboxes and even table radios and many minisystems. The truth is that the speakers are so close together, and the listener is so far away relative to the speaker separation, that you really get little or no stereo imaging. I'd much rather have a single higher-quality speaker (like those used in the Tivoli units) than two crappy speakers.


(As for the purported "distortion" with the PAL radios, in my experience the problem isn't the radio, but rather the line-in jack. You have to really push the input cable in hard to get a solid connection.)

 

[CRESCENDOPOWER]

If you must have it in stereo just buy some powered speakers, and hook it up to your portable CD player.

 

[Jeff E]

" I'd get the cambridge model 88 (or whatever new one they have) but it doesn't have a CD player."

The model 88 radio was available with an internal CD player but neither version appears to be currently available at the hifi site.


Instead they have replaced it with this:
<http://www.cambridgesoundworks.com/s...gory=aud_radio>
An extra $150 seems awfully steep to add the internal player to the radio. I'd be tempted to use a separate source.

Ad copy:" Front inputs for your CD or MP3 player, and a headphone jack. Rear inputs and outputs for recording, mixing and outside signal reception. "

I have yet to hear a boombox that can compete with the Model 88's sound.