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This small radio has excellent tone, clarity and available volume. It's on-battery time has so far always been adequate for hours of listening and it recharges rapidly.
It is particularly good at picking up fringe FM stations and holding signal while rejecting interference.
The soft plastic covering seems to reduce vibration and, subjectively speaking, "feels" good to the touch.
One great feature is its auxiliary input which allow a mini plug out from a computer to a mini plug into the aux input of the PAL. The result is loud, clear hearing of any internet accessible audio source. I listen to fm stations in California Tucson Philadelphia, etc. with ease. Video on the net yields excellent audio by this method.
PS I have two of them, one for some years.

This is one great radio. This is my 2nd one. I've had my 1st one for five years and purchased another for my office. Great sound, reception and great for the outdoors.

It is perfect...it was for an elderly gentleman who can just listen to it right by his chair. Simple functions and good sound make it the ideal radio for him. The recharging is simple and there are no batteries to replace all the time. I looked a long time for a radio like this.

I have a couple of table radios from Tivoli that I like quite well. I also very much like the comparable model (which I also have) from Boston Acoustics. As for the PAL, this is something I bought specifically to have a portable, self-contained device to play audio from my laptop from in presentations. (It also works very well to plug in any MP3 player the same way, but stereo-mini to stereo-mini plug cable.) The sound for music is not quite as good as the Inmotion IM3 which I also have and use similarly, but it's as good or better for audio in general, ruggedness, and loudness for presenting in a room. The radio is also superb, and the volume controls apparently in use on the PALs appear to me to be better in quality than on the table radios that Tivoli makes (where the volume control has a very sharp ramp up in loudness and is harder to regulate well for lower volume listening). Yes, I'm a geek.

Anyway, the PAL is a splendid device. Does all as promised with style, attractive looks, high quality audio, and with at least the appearance (and I bet the actuality) of ruggedness.

This is my second experience with Tivoli product. First one, SoundBook I returned back to seller because reception was not good on FM in my area. Too much noice. With this small PAL radio, it completely different story. Manual, very sensitive tuner allow you to lock station easily. Great looking radio with different colors. Very deep bass from tiny speakers. Great product - not cheap for radio, but worth it.