Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14157 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Intempo
• Model: TRS-01V
• Released on: 2007-08-06

Manufacturer's Description
Small and sleek, the Intempo TRS is ultra-compact and uber-attractive, available in a range of 5 on-trend colourways. The portable TRS will look at home in any room in your house and is perfect for DAB on the go.

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Customer Reviews

Lightweight and disappointing sound
Having been recently upgrading our radios to DAB we have bought quite a few DAB sets recently. Unfortunately the Intempo is the most disappointing of them. Lightly built and feeling flimsy in use the sound matches its feel, sounding very tinny with poor bass reproduction and a frequent annoying background buzz when in use.

The controls are fiddly to use. Station selection is via a dial which is flush with the front of the radio. Which makes the control look quite good but very difficult to use. That is slightly offset by the presence of five preset station buttons on the set but if you want more than five then you are either using a button combination to get to the next set or after 10 DAB presets your are back to its awkward dial selection. The volume control is a simple up down button on the side of the radio but which unfortunately is rather indiscriminate in the range of settings making it all too loud at some settings but all too quiet at the setting immediately below.

This is only about five pounds cheaper than the Pure One which is another of the radios we bought recently and yet putting the two of them next to one another there is no comparison. In some ways the intempo looks better but its sound quality is much poorer, it fails to pick up the stations which our other radios can find, even failing on some of the major stations. On the whole this is OK if you want a small DAB radio for a few stations and are not too worried about sound quality but if that's the case then any cheap FM radio would do. Otherwise I'd suggest spending just a few pounds more which could get you something much better. (Edit - I've only had this on the kitchen table for a few hours and I've decided it's going back. Even in that time the sound quality is so poor that I've resorted to bring a different radio in to replace it. If I'm going to do that then it isn't worth having this radio around!)

sounds good?
For a relatively cheap little bathroom or kitchen DAB radio, the intempo looks OK with a nice range of modern colours and is simplicity itself to get tuned. It's small and light enough to sit on the windowsill or carry around too. Sounds good then?

Well no, not at all. Its audio capabilities are very very poor to match its plastic light feel. It sounds tinny and so bass unfriendly that it actually becomes tiring to listen to. Also beware that at the minimum volume it's still almost too loud and the click volume buttons do nothing to give you options. That said it will go maximum loud without distorting but quite why you'd want to give your ears such a treble bashing at anything above 2 or 3.

Don't forget you're paying for so called digital quality but an FM radio at half this price would probably sound better. The scrolling station info on the small screen is about the only benefit. A 20 year old Sony radio a quarter of the size still sounds better.

Considering that price for what you get, it then doesn't seem such good value. I'd go so far to say that at £15 it would be priced about right and paying a bit more for a Pure DAB even better.

Not good and definitely not recommended.

Quality
Bought this radio for £29.99 from Amazon,(24/11/07, now it's £34.99 go figure)
Got it for the bathroom,what a sound for a little radio.
Arrived in pristine condition.
Thank you Amazon for a lovely DAB radio,Top value