Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29686 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Intempo
• Model: TRS-01C
• Released on: 2007-10-04

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!)

Disappointing....
I entirely agree with J.Brand - just a pity that review wasn't up when I bought one. I played it for 10 minutes and found the sound so awful and tinny that it went straight back to Amazon !

Good radio for the money
We bought this for our daughter when her favourite station moved to DAB. We decided not to spend a huge amount as the stereo she has is a very good one. This radio is good value for money, as it didn't break the bank (the colour we chose happened to be a bit cheaper than some of the others). It was a much smaller thing than we'd expected (perhaps dimensions in the listing would be a good idea) and I think because of this the sound is not the most robust you will hear, but it has a good tone which it manages to sustain as the volume is increased. We're very pleased with it.