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They seem wonderfully balanced between treble, bass and midrange, at least given my placement and room acoustics. I liked the sound of the Tivoli Model Three all by itself quite a lot, considering it's only got one mono speaker and it's just a little clock radio. Considering this is a clock radio and mini-system, it sounds great. Your bass prefs might be very different from mine, but the Model Three with its companion speaker have plenty of bass for me. Probably from Amazon. I highly recommend investment in the extra speaker for your Model Three.To compare the pair to my eight-year-old mid-priced boombox and to my mid-priced computer speaker system with subwoofer, the Tivoli Model Three with extra speaker rocks.
Strange, but the basic pairing of the Model Three and speaker just works).If you're thinking of ordering the subwoofer, I suggest you wait and try the Model Three with only the companion speaker first. I liked it so much that I purchased the companion speaker.The companion speaker makes it sound really great. (The Model Three itself offers no bass-treble adjustment, while the subwoofer does. Please see my amateur review about the Tivoli Model Three here on Amazon. I am now quite a Tivoli fan.I don't want the subwoofer. But there are those who say the subwoofer is audio nirvana.Con: If you play the Model Three with the companion speaker really loud, it sounds distorted.I like the compactness, aesthetics, and sound so much that I'm planning on ordering the $200 CD player.
Amazon has delivered as promised in all my experience with them.
On the other hand, it's kind of cool to hear a trombone coming from one side of the bed and an oboe from the other. I thought I was a monophonic purist until seeing a Consumer Reports review that rated the sound quality of the Kloss Tivoli radio above even the Bose, Boston Acoustic, and Cambridge models providing it was hooked up to the satellite speaker. So thumbs up on the extra speaker, though I'm not about to go crazy and install the Kloss sub-woofer underneath the bed. So for fifty bucks, why not. The speakers are on nightstands parallel with my head, so the sound is hardly balanced. Not only is it over-priced but even without the sub-woofer the speakers, to my ears, are already bass-heavy. Maybe I'll reconsider if my cat stops purring and the prospect of a vibrating mattress suddenly seems attractive.
Now externally, the Cherry finish on my "Model 3" speaker just doesn't match in the least my Tivoli Model 3 Clock radio. Love the Audio quality.Tivoli has this down. Nice lows. When there are side x side, which unfortuantly they are, it looks as if I'm the one aesthetically challanged. I have to say to myself "well at least it sounds good" Tivoli, oh Tivoli.
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