![]() The appearance is clearly retro influenced and resembles something that would have graced the rooms around the time of Tangent’s formation, in the 1970’s. It doesn’t really feel particularly woody, to the touch, but it does look convincing and the unit has a decidedly well-engineered design. ![]() The Tangent DAB2GO is available in six colours – high gloss white, apple green, black, red and ‘ice blue’ plus, what we have here, a walnut finish – blame some of our formative years of being driven around in a Triumph for our choice – and apparently features a real wood veneer. Tangent clearly aren’t afraid of a ‘bit’ of competition as the DAB radio market isn’t short of entrants so let’s see if the DAB2GO can justify its place in your home. In 2005 the Tangent brand re-emerged and they added table radios – amongst other things - to their portfolio of products and now find themselves under the umbrella of the French AVI group as they seek to establish themselves as a major player in the UK. Tangent Audio may not be a name familiar to everyone but they first cut their teeth in the 1970’s, established by a group of dedicated Danish hi-fi enthusiasts and within a few years their innovative designs had established the Company as a major specialist loudspeaker manufacturer, gaining positive reviews from the HI-Fi press, in the UK and beyond. For this home-based AV reviewer, it’s a near God-send. That the radio survives, at all, is testament to its convenient portability and perhaps the unique personal way in which we interact with it. ![]() Wind forward more years than we’d care to admit and the entertainment landscape is an entirely different proposition one can now access radio services via TV, Tablet, Smartphone or PC and there’s an increasing push toward an all-digital future, as the Government seeks profit by selling off the airwaves to 4G (and soon 5G) providers. If memory serves the first was an AM only number, possibly manufactured by Ferguson, which generally found itself tuned to the ‘Great 208’, Radio Luxembourg, for reasons that escape me now, but those were the days of old, hairy Radio 1 DJ’s who liked the sound of their own voices more than the records they played. Long before we got the TV bug it was the humble radio that became our technological fascination and my own first foray in to this exciting world of AV.
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