Hi and I trust you've all had a pleasant Christmas Day though our friends in the States are probably still making the most of the day itself.
Its Boxing Day here which means plenty of cricket to follow and plenty of time to catch up on those things that need to be caught up on including the scanning of operating instructions and owners manuals so time to look at the supplied manual for the Tivoli DAB Radio. The radio itself is called the Tivoli Pal Plus so my error, I thought it was called the Tivoli Pal Dab. The radio has a built-in digital clock with 2 alarms that can be set, the procedure for setting these alarms seems straight forward enough according to the manual so - once I get some help with the Remote Control layout - I'll have a play and see just how successful I am, can't see any real problems here. The choices in the menu are a delight I should think to any lover of a good radio as so much can be customised here, there's a loudness facility, Bass and Treble controls, EQ presets and more. The display is customisable, just how customisable I can't say given I can't seen it but there are plenty of lighting options and options to adjust the font size, an auto brightness is also part of the display adjustment settings. If listening to the radio through a headset is something you'll be doing a lot of then note the adjustments particular to this mode of listening such as balance, mono or stereo headphones listening, Bass, Treble and EQ, separate volume adjustment etc. By default the backlight remains on all the time when running the radio on battery and this is interesting, the Pal Plus is the only radio I've used where the backlight remains lit, the opposite is usually the default, I'll make a note to change this setting in order to get a longer battery life though their may well be a disadvantage in doing this as I didn't notice separate backlight settings for power and battery operations. I'm very glad to say that the sleep timer is very accessible on this radio through the "sleep" button on the remote control, pressing once enables the time and each subsequent press changes the sleep timer, I'll have to get some help to find out the exact cycle. Having access to the sleep timer in this way is such a welcome change in a modern day radio, so many radios available today use the power button to enable the sleep timer and make changes to it so a person with no way of reading the display would find this method extremely difficult and frustrating to deal with. I had a play around with the FM band, on the remote controller the user presses the "source" button until the FM band is selected - the white noise from the FM band is recognisable anywhere -. From here I was able to engage manual tuning by pressing the jog-dial once and then turning the dial, every click of the dial changed the frequency in 50KHZ steps though I would imagine this could be changed somewhere in the settings if required. I didn't try the radio under my usual test conditions but it certainly had no problems in receiving a station I regularly listen to 80 miles from here which is 400KHZ above a stronger station nearby. I'll publish more notes as I keep exploring this wonderful radio. ********** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 Fax +61397437954
