AR ARIR200 Tabletop Wi-Fi Internet Radio with Alarm
- Wi-Fi internet and AM/FM radio with built-in Wi-Fi and Ethernet connectivity
- Simple online setup and activation; free accounts with Slacker Personal Radio, Personal Portal and WeatherBug
- Clock radio and alarm functions to wake to your personal favorites
- Record up to 10-hours of internet radio or AM/FM radio
- USB connection for playing content from your flash drive or mp3 player
Product Description
Acoustic Research introduces the next generation of audio entertainment with the ARIR200 Wi-Fi internet and AM/FM radio. The ARIR200 gives you access to thousands of global music and talk stations with its built-in Wi-Fi and Ethernet connectivity. It features a clock radio with alarm functions that allow you to wake to your favorite music or radio stations. Activate your free account with Slacker Personal Radio to access millions of tracks, hundreds of genre stations and over 10,000 artist stations. Slacker displays the next upcoming artist and provides the ability to pause or skip at any time. Other free accounts include Personal Portal and WeatherBug to receive local weather forecasts and emergency alerts. Preset six of your favorite stations per source into the radio so that you can save and retrieve your favorite stations with the push of a button. You can connect your mp3 player or flash drive into the USB connection to listen to your personal music f… More >>
AR ARIR200 Tabletop Wi-Fi Internet Radio with Alarm
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5 comments
Snarly on February 7, 2010 at 11:50 pm
I bought this as an “inexpensive” (LOL) internet radio for talk stations, fully accepting that the sound quality would not be that great. But this radio will not pick up my wifi router 4 feet away on the other side of an interior wall with the electrical wiring in the wall between them. Relocating it to a cleaner radio pathway, it still drops the signal frequently, and must be manually reset. I can’t recommend this radio because even a $10 radio that doesn’t work very well is an exorbitantly over-priced radio.
Robert W. Hackett Jr. on February 8, 2010 at 1:12 am
It does what it say’s it does.
You get wide variety of internet station all across the country and hardly ever lost connect via wi-fi.
The only downer to this radio is slacker is very limited, I wish i could get Pandora.
Karen Cooper on February 8, 2010 at 2:07 am
I like it that you can ban songs or add songs as favorites. Also it comes it great.
D. Husby on February 8, 2010 at 3:13 am
Back in 2001 there were several MP3 players on the market. They were all pretty mediocre and did pretty much the same thing. And then Apple came along and changed the entire industry. Why? It wasn’t because of superior hardware or some revolutionary new technology unavailable to their competitors. It was because of their superior software and insight into what makes a good user interface and a good consumer experience.
This is what the ARIR200 lacks. It’s got 22 buttons, an LCD display, a control wheel, a 512K audio buffer, Wifi, USB, AM/FM tuner, and ethernet port. The only thing lacking is the vision for how to turn this pile of stuff into a really good product.
The user interface is workable, but amature. Most of the 22 buttons are useless. The 512K buffer is also pretty much useless, but with good software, it could be made into a Tivo-like feature for pausing and re-winding live media.
Acoustic research would benefit greatly from releasing their software sources to the open source community and letting them polish up the ARIR200 into a truly good product.
Walter S. Mcrae on February 8, 2010 at 3:40 am
i really love my acoustic research arir200 wi-fi internet radio!!! being that i am not very savvy with electronics and computors,,,,it was surprisingly easy for me to set up. I am still learning some of the features, yet it really is a fantastic radio. The sound is also way better than i expected. I highly recommend this radio.