Review
If you are tired of the busy air over the limited radio playlists, lack of diversity, endless commercials and spotty. If you do not want to pay a monthly subscription for satellite radio, or whether you want the sound in the world, without the disadvantages of short wave you need Internet radio. With thousands of choices you will find the content that matches your needs. While you may hear on your computer a better choice WiFi radio. I chose the Livio radio with Pandora.
First, Why 4Stars and not 5? Because initial setup is poorly documented and confusing. But their customer service helpful and even first facility was completed I have had no problems.
Livio The radio is well made. It looks like a radio and quality table has a heavy solid feel. The black casing is thick plastic with a matte finish to minimize fingerprints and smudges. The face is white with a heavy clear plastic screen overlay of the graphic. I think the overall effect of attractive.
The left side of the face through the speakers that are protected by a metal grill is dominated. It provides a 3 1 / 2 inch cone. More about sound later. The display is blue to violet in the upper right corner. The brightness can be adjusted separately in each of its various modes, active, inactive and standby. When the radio is off the time display with large easy to read numbers in 12 or 24 hour format. It receives its time from the Internet and looks to me to beas accurate as my remote-controlled "atomic" clock. It has an alarm function, but oddly enough, does not have a sleep timer or off mode. When the radio on the display shows the station play a song or program if they are supplied by station, time and signal strength. I find it difficult at all to read very far from the radio. Below the display are six small buttons. Three of them are designed with Pandora, thumbs up, down, and skip. The other three are power, fav and back. The back andFAV-buttons are associated with the large button, the front units were used. This aa great combo knob for volume, tuning used, and navigating the menus. The last item on the front is a headphone jack.
The back of the radio has inputs for the power supply, stereo out, aux-in and Ethernet. There is no battery option, so this can not be considered a portable. The stereo-Out is a mini-jack, but a thoughtful mini-jack to RCA plug adapterwhat this does to your stereo hooking a snap. The stereo-out volume controlled not by the volume control on the front. You can also by the built-in speaker, if your radio to a stereo hooked. I have not used my wireless Ethernet functions as well. They do supply an Ethernet cable if you need or want to go that way. With the Aux-in you on your MP3 player, CD's or other devices to listen through the Livio.
The Livio comes with a small, remotefrom which you can access all functions of the radios with the addition of 5 presets. I must say, it does not seem to be very strong that you need to pretty much to the radio and not too far away for the remote control to work.
I find the sound quality acceptable given the limitations of a small speaker. There seems to be true more for the spoken word rather then music. It reminds me of the sound that you get from a small table, the radio, what it is. When IUse this primarily for playing music that I connected a series of cheap Creative Inspire T3100 speakers. These are small computer speakers with a subwoofer. This dramatically improves the sound. I have a different WIFI radio to the same connected speakers without as good a result. The unit had an underlying hum that listening to boring. I understand that none of the Livio. In all for about $ 200 (radio and speakers), I have a compact sound system that sounds good and may in the melodyWorld.
This is my second WiFi or Internet radio. My first is the Com One Phoenix several years ago that I bought CompUSA when they went out of business. Why do I buy a second radio, if the first is working well? Two reasons, first I wanted to be able to listen to Pandora. Second, the portal from which I could be received for the Phoenix-owned stations that company. Since I purchased the radio, it seems that they leave the product. While for compliance with thePortal up I'm worried that at some point my radio and I will be orphans with the left one funny-looking brick. The portal is Livio's Reciva. As more manufacturers are using this portal, I feel safer that I come to the content for years. The last thing I heard Reciva has registered about 16,000 stations. Fortunately, they are separated by genre, country of origin, etc. They can be searched by keyword. All this can be established on Livio without the need of a computer navigation to be done by theMenus and the search for stations is quite intuitive with the main controller and the other three keys, but I find it easier to do this from Reciva's website. Once you have determined that you stops you can make it a popular and want to be called up quickly using the FAV button. From the Reciva website, which you can organize themselves, they can be in folders. As before mentioned, you can assign five presets on the remote. This can either be preset radio station or your Pandora stations. Favorites can not be PandoraStations. This is ok but like Pandora has its own special menu.
I gave the Livio Radio 4 stars. It could have been five except for the first device. Like I said, I own a different brand, and I read a lot of reviews and specifications for several others. The Livio was my choice for a replacement. Not the cheapest but a good value. Because these devices are almost impossible to store in a brick and mortar and more difficult to find even to compare side by side, I hope this review helpful.
Feature
- The Livio Radio, featuring Pandora, goes beyond making more than 11,000 free Internet radio stations easily accessible anywhere you, a power source and a Wi-Fi connection should meet.
- The easiest way to enjoy Pandora Internet Radio at home or at the office, without the need of a computer
- The first Internet Radio to feature the Thumb-up and Thumb-down controls right in the front of the unit
- Pandora is your personal DJ; Enter the name of an artist or song and start listening; Give songs a Thumb Up or Thumb Down and Pandora will instantly change the music selection to better match your tastes
Overview
The Livio Radio, featuring Pandora, goes beyond making more than 11,000 free Internet radio stations easily accessible anywhere you, a power source and a Wi-Fi connection should meet. As if that isn’t cool enough, the Livio Radio, through Pandora and the Music Genome Project®, gives its users the ear of their own personal DJ, one that actually pays attention to what you like, and what you don’t. The Livio Radio puts you in the driver’s seat, empowered with clean, easy-to-understand controls, allowing you to tap into the power of Pandora, sans the tether to your computer or cell phone. Empower up! What is the Livio Radio? The easiest way to enjoy Pandora Internet Radio at home or at the office, without the need of a computer.The first Internet Radio to feature the Thumb-up and Thumb-down controls right in the front of the unit. What is Pandora? Pandora is your personal DJ. Enter the name of an artist or song and start listening. Discover new music you’ll love and rediscover old favorites. Give songs a Thumb Up or Thumb Down and Pandora will instantly change the music selection to better match your tastes. Enjoy all styles of music rock, pop, urban, country, jazz, classical, latin and more. Listen to your stations on the Livio Radio or on the web at Pandora website.
( Product Information and Prices Stored: May 09, 2010 20:22:48 )
