| AR ARIR200 Tabletop Wi-Fi Internet Radio with Alarm (Black) |  | Brand: Audiovox
Category: CE
List Price: $129.99
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Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 24,954
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 10.4 x 9.3
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: ARIR200
Model: ARIR200
UPC: 044476064821
EAN: 0044476064821
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 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 |
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Product Description
Acoustic Research introduces the next radio level. Acoustic Research ARIR200 Infinite Radio pulls more music and talk radio as an Internet / AM / FM radio with a traditional alarm clock. It provides direct access to Slacker content and comes bundled with a prepaid subscription to WeatherBug for latest and most accurate weather information Use Slacker Personal Radio to create personalized music stations using heart and ban buttons for love and hate music from slacker's digital stream. Slacker includes millions of tracks, hundreds of genre stations, and over 10,000 artist stations, with displays of the next upcoming artist. It provides the ability to pause or skip at any time (limited amount). Slacker premium subscription option provides on demand song recall, unlimited skips, and is free of ads (Premium requires subscription at a nominal fee, other Slacker sevices are free). 6 preset stations per source to conveniently save and retrieve your favorite stations On demand weather with access to Weatherbug for four years from your activation date Get 1 day and 3 day forecasts and alerts delivered on demand via text to speech technology Record to 512MB of internal memory for approximately 10 hours of your favorite music - Recording available from internet radio or FM radio Personal Online Portal customizes your Infinite Radio content from choices you make online Personal Portal choices of presets and genres will automatically synchronize with the Infinite Radio Audio file formats currently supported on the Infinite Radio for playback are - . mp3 . wma (Windows Media Audio) . ra (Real Audio RA8 and G2 only) Digital Right Management (DRM) type music files (i.e. iTunes, Rhapsody) are not supported. The radio supports FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 file systems only. Other file systems from Linux, MAC or NTFS are not supported
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| Customer Reviews:
It has potential March 14, 2009
D. Fisher (Southeast U.S.)
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
This radio is the same as the RCA Infinite Radio RIR200 which Amazon stopped carrying in favor of this Acoustic Research ARIR200, so I encourage anyone who is thinking about buying this products to ALSO read the reviews at the following link:
RCA Infinite Radio RIR200 Internet Radio with Wifi Connectivity and Slacker Personal Radio
In case the link does not work, put this number (a product number) into the search box: B0016OK5O0 (cut and paste because those are both O's and zeros). You can also look at the reviews for the RIR205 which is the same unit but it also includes a basic router for those who want a simple way to hook up their unit to the internet. Search for B0016OI1BY to get info on the RIR205
Some of the issues brought up in those reviews are still valid (e.g. the odd ergonomics of the controls, too bright illumination, etc.) and some issues have been fixed by firmware updates. Unfortunately, sometimes when they fix one issue in the firmware they seem to also "break" another.
I give AR/RCA credit that they are at least supporting the product with firmware updates (as of 3/2009 they have released a version during 12/2008 and 3/2009). Right now, in my experience the product is a bit buggy with the current version of the firmware and I have been experiencing some random crashes where it either locks up or reboots itself. This is a real pain because it loses the security key for the WiFi when this happens and thus it has to be reentered. There is also a base level of white noise through the speakers, even after turning the radio off, that I find annoying (hint: after going standby, turn the volume dial all the way down and it will disappear with a pffft - then spin the volume back up to the normal position so that you have volume the next time you turn the radio portion on). This unit is better than the iLuv unit I reviewed elsewhere and could be quite good if they ever get a good version of the firmware going.
One of the best resources for information on these radios is the message archives at the following group at Google groups: Acoustic Research ARIRC200 Internet Radio . Just do a search at Google Groups and you should find the group (I don't think Amazon will let me include the link, but here goes: http://groups.google.com/group/acoustic-research-arirc200-internet-radio?hl=en )
 Love it even though it's not perfect April 2, 2009
D. Hentze (United States)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
My wife bought me this for my birthday. She probably wishes she didn't. I keep her up at night as I go through all the internet stations each evening. I guess you could say this is the "world's worst alarm clock". I lose at least an hour's sleep each night, playing with the RIR200. It may soon replace my XM radio as my favorite radio. Seriously, the RIR200 is just awesome. Setup is fairly simple. You setup an account online (free), which takes about 5 minutes. You can customize some favorite options if you like. You use your Slacker password if you have one, and the radio will automatically log into Slacker. A free 4 year subscription to WeatherBug is included for instant weather and alerts. After you setup online, you turn on the RIR200 and follow the quick setup guide. Connecting to my WEP wireless network was no problem, and I had the radio up and running in a few minutes. All in all, I just love the RIR200. It performs well. The sound is very good, but by no means Hi-fidelity. If I had to say a negative thing about it, the AM and FM performance is nothing special. No big deal because I'll probably never ever listen to them on this radio anyway. Also, I wish the lowest volume setting wasn't as loud as it is. It's a little loud when trying to fall asleep. The radio isn't perfect , and does have its bugs. None of which I consider major. I haven't had any major issues. The firmware is updated in occasion. The most recent update added access to MP3Tunes, and fixed many of the previous bugs. It also introduced a few more, but they're working on fixing them too. If they get all the bugs out, I'd easily give it 5 stars.
Works as advertised, and great price April 12, 2009
Al I. (Chicago, IL USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought this as a second internet radio, mostly because it is pretty inexpensive compared to other radios. (My other is a Squeezebox Boom, which cost ~ $250.) At $90-$100, the AR Infinite Radio is a steal. It's kind of small, and has smallish speakers. There's no remote, either. But, the device works as advertised, and it's hard to remember why other companies charge twice as much for an internet radio device. It was very easy to get it on my WPK2-protected wifi network, search for my favorite stations, and away we go. This radio is great for my office.
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