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I've owned the Tivoli for over 5 years. The Tivoli sounds good when it's new. It has a warm, rich sounds. Sounds better on AM talk stations than the Sangean. The Tivoli is true analog tuning. It's noisy and the tuner drifts badly. The tuner drifts within a few minutes and it drifts pretty far. I have to turn my dial back and forth over almost 10mHz to recapture the signal. Tuning between stations is noisy. Sounds like the tuner potentiometer is dirty, but it's not the type that you can clean. It has to be replaced, and that's more drama than I care to deal with. I got the WR-11SE for my birthday. I asked for it to replace the Tivoli because of the above issues. The Sangean seems to use PLL tuning. The tuner is quiet in between stations and locks on tight when it finds a good signal. The display is linear rather than a dial and it's backlit, so the Sangean display is much easier to read than the Tivoli. The Sangean has a warmer, more bass heavy sound then the Tivoli. This makes the Sangean sound better than the Tivoli for FM music. I've listened to AM talk on the Sangean and it sounds clean and clear. The Sangean just sounds a bit warmer and more compressed than the Tivoli. The other reviews can tell you about all the specs, etc. The Sangean is about half (or less!) the price of a Tivoli. You're buying the Tivoli name and the Henry Kloss name, but the radio is inferior, in my opinion. I own several other Sangean radios and they're all high quality. Sangean is and always has been a Chinese company. Their radios are and always have been made in China. Since Sangean originally started in China and it's NOT a new company that has built itself off stealing and counterfeiting designs from other companies, it's one of the few Chinese companies that actually makes high quality products. I've been buying and using Sangean radios since the 1990's and I've never had a dud. They've all been very good radios. Sangean is equal in quality to Panasonic and Sony. I definitely recommend this radio over the Tivoli Model One.