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IT'S A case of back to the future for Cayin's retro-looking, sweet-
sounding SP105i valve mantle radio.

With a look and feel that cries out "Fifties" to any radio fan on the
wrong side of middle age, guess who is buying truckloads of Cayins?

A fat Havana to anyone who answers

"net-savvy, generation Y audio enthusiasts".

Yep, these youngsters love its cool looks and refined sound.

They also think the Cayin's circuit, which uses bona fide glass
valves, is hip -- or wicked as they say these days.

As do older audiophiles, who prize a lifelike sound above any other
feature and are willing to pay $999 for the Cayin.

Cayin, Tivoli, Bush, Grundig and a dozen other radio brands are
ensuring that radios are back in fashion.

Small portables, compacts and larger mantle models are on the shopping
list for just about anyone who wants to tune to FM or AM for news,
weather, music and, of course, sport.

But don't tell Harvey Norman, JB, Retravision or any of the other
large retail chains with a national focus.

Though the specialist stores do a roaring trade in Tivolis, Sangeans,
Grundigs, Bush and Cayins, the big guys just don't get it.

A few years ago, bulk stores couldn't give a radio away. So when the
retail outlets had no desire to hold an appreciable range of radios,
suppliers stopped supplying.

Sure, if you looked hard enough you could find a couple of drab radios
with quality ranging from ordinary to the cheap and cheerful.

"No wonder consumers switched off. Lack of choice killed the radio
market," Grundig managing director Brian Rodgers says.

"The public was starved of choice so stopped buying. These days
portable and mantle radio ranges are almost unlimited and guess what
-- consumers are back big time."

Though the big Japanese brands such as Sony can unleash well-priced,
superbly finished radios, so is specialist brand Sangean.

Based in Korea, Sangean builds a wide range of modern portable and
mantle-radio models.

The latest is the $599 WR-3, a model Sangean calls a CD receiver,
because it is indeed a radio with the lot. Inside its high-gloss
chassis is a stereo radio, clock/alarm and

slot-in CD player.

The WR-3 also has inputs for SD/MMC cards, USB drives and it plays
back MP3 files.

W HEN it comes to portables, Britain's Bush brand is taking a walk
back in time. Its two best-selling radios are reproductions of Bush
radios released in the 1950s and '60s.

The nod to the '50s is the nicely priced TR82 ($59.95). A large
compact, the TR82 has AM/FM bands, large easy-to-see-and-use rotary
dials and a huge speaker.

The original Bush TR130 was unveiled just as the Beatles went global.

Bush has modernised the internal electronics and these days it has an
rrp of $49.95.

But the radio that led the genre's revival about five years ago is
Tivoli's iconic Model One. The Model One is available for $399 as a
limited-edition series in high-gloss piano black, walnut or white.

So how does the modern radio stack up against the bakelite mantle jobs
of the 1950s?

Very well. They're just as sweet-sounding, and well made -- and
they're more affordable.

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