Reading this Wirecutter review of “tabletop radios,” as I guess they’re called now, made me want one.
I use an old Echo Spot in the kitchen for radio, as well as for access to Amazon Music, and the sound quality doesn’t seem to me to be much different from the radio sets of my youth. When I was a kid, the radio was always on in the kitchen, and, growing up, it was my little lifeline to culture and discovery. John Peel, Annie Nightingale, Alexis Korner, Linton Kwesi Johnson. I’m sure it’s just memory and nostalgia that made me instantly think, wow, I’d love a radio on the kitchen counter with a proper dial. I don’t need one, obviously. But I’m bookmarking it anyway, against that time in the future when I don’t have access to the internet and still need that little lifeline to the world of sound.
Listening to: Radio Mothership, out of Woodbridge.
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