Miss the texture of traditional audio package? Tivoli Songbook and Songbook Max convey retro knobs and sliders to trendy Bluetooth audio system and DAB radios

One of the issues numerous trendy audio package lacks is touchability: as beautiful as it’s to get wonderful sound from a system, it is only a bit much less enjoyable when there aren’t sliders to slip, knobs to rotate and switches to flick. So I’m intrigued by the brand new Tivoli Songbook and Songbook Max, two moveable Bluetooth audio system with numerous touchability and a few uncommon audio options too.

The Songbooks had been impressed by {hardware} of the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Nineties, and are an evolution of the agency’s earlier Songbook radio that was discontinued over a decade in the past. They’re each designed to be moveable, and so they’re definitely hanging trying: the inexperienced model appears prefer it was torn from a US Army Jeep, whereas the cream colour choice appears prefer it must be sat subsequent to a kind of 70s drinks trolleys with a half-globe on prime of it. But do not let the retro appears idiot you, these are totally trendy units.

Tivoli Songbook and Songbook Max: key options and specs

The Songbook comes with a 3.5-inch full-range driver, a 3.5-inch woofer and twin 40-watt amps, so it is able to some critical quantity. At 6.7lbs it is lighter than it appears, and it is also so much lighter than its bigger sibling. That mannequin, the Songbook Max, is available in at 11.5lbs so it is extra transportable than moveable. But the payoff is that you just get a 4-inch subwoofer, a 4-inch mid-range, a 3/4-inch tweeter and twin 50W amps for much more sound energy.

The Bluetooth right here is 5.3 and there is an uncommon further enter choice right here: the quarter-inch/6.35mm aux enter has a pre-amp, which suggests you may plug in a guitar or different instrument and use the Songbook as an amp. If you go for the Max your audio decisions additionally embody in-built FM and DAB+ radios – making it a contender for our greatest DAB radios on connectivity choices alone. Battery life is a claimed 10 hours and you may quick cost by way of USB-C at as much as 15V.

I actually just like the look of those audio system: there’s one thing immensely likeable about their faces, and I’m a sucker for a set of EQ sliders and a few good clicky switches. And given Tivoli’s monitor report these will little question sound simply pretty much as good as they give the impression of being.

The Tivoli Audio Songbook has a RRP of £429, and the Songbook MAX is £599. Both fashions can be found now from Tivoli and from the standard retailers; Tivoli is presently providing 10% off to new e-newsletter subscribers. 

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