As the country emerged from the Great Depression, and with war looming on the horizon, Americans were looking for something to cheer them up. The radio industry answered with Catalin cabinet radios.

No, the tabletop radio isn’t extinct. There have been plenty of audio innovations over the years, yes—wireless headphones and big, powerful speakers among them, but there’s still reason to invest in a ...

Satellite radio use is growing and soon we'll have to deal with HD radio (digital versions of our local stations). But for now, despite decades of ownership by mega-companies and sound-alike bland ...

A tabletop home radio isn’t complete these days without an iPod dock, Wi-Fi access to Internet radio, HD Radio or satellite radio reception, a growing number of suppliers believe. Sangean, for example ...

High-performance table radios are connecting to more music sources and adding new features, as new models from Eton and start-up Chestnut Hill Sound indicate. Eton, for example, is launching a new ...

Grace Digital Audio is shipping a Wi-Fi Internet tabletop radio featuring Pandora. The company calls this “the first and only tabletop radio that incorporates the same features that Pandora listeners ...

If you’ve read this column in the past you know just how fond I am of the late Henry Kloss’ table radios, from the KLH models from the ’60s through the Cambridge SoundWorks of the ’90s. Now, more than ...

The way table-radio wars have escalated, it’s a near certainty that engineers somewhere in a top-secret lab are working on a model with a built-in radon detector, convection oven, coffee maker ...

Sony Delivers Crystal Clear Radio in the Home and in the Car with the XDR-S3HD Table Radio and XT-100HD Mobile HD Radio Tuner Crafted to sooth even the keenest golden ear, Sony’s table radio and ...

Boston Acoustics has lowered the price of its tabletop HD Radio to just under $300, a $200 reduction. The company made the change “due to the increased awareness of HD Radio technology and the rapidly ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve currently reviews audio products for CNET and works as a freelance writer ...

Tivoli Audio’s Model One table radio could be a museum escapee, decked in a ’60s fashion with solid wood paneling and oversize AM/FM tuning dial. It’s so soothingly, confidently analog — and mono, not ...