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Tivoli Audio Model One
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Tivoli Audio Model One

Tivoli Audio Model One AM/FM table radio, without Bluetooth.

$149Buy on Amazon
Amazon US, October 2026. Prices change.

Henry Kloss’s last design: a wooden cabinet, an analogue tuning dial and a discrete-component FM tuner. Volume, tuning, band. Pick the original, not the Bluetooth version.

Calm
Does not compete for your attention: no notifications, feeds or endless content. Does its job and gets out of the way.

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Survival checklist

What it survives, next to the smart one it replaces.
1
=SURVIVES(threat)Survives…
ThisTivoli Audio Model One
What it replacesSmart oneAmazon Echo Dot
2
Power cut
FALSE
FALSE
3
Wi-Fi goes down
TRUE
FALSE
4
The company switches off its servers
TRUE
FALSE
5
Someone tries to hack it
TRUE
FALSE
6
A firmware update goes wrong
TRUE
FALSE
7
Twenty years from now
#DEPENDS
FALSE
8
=COUNTIF(TRUE)Total
4 of 64/6and one maybe
0 of 60/6

The smart one is the Amazon Echo Dot.

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One dial, one knob, discrete transistors. Designed by Henry Kloss.

Tivoli Audio Model One

$149
Calm
Tivoli Audio Model One$149
Buy on Amazon