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AR ARIR200 Tabletop Wi-Fi Internet Radio with Alarm (Black) |  | Brand: Audiovox
Category: CE
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $89.99
as of 3/18/2010 08:10 CDT details
You Save: $60.00 (40%)
New (20) Used (1) from $89.99
Seller: JERSEY CAMERA
Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 15577
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.9
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 9.3 x 6
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: ARIR200
Model: ARIR200
UPC: 044476064821
EAN: 0044476064821
ASIN: B001PPVXPK
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:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 18
 AIR RESEARCH INTERNET RADIO AR ARIR200 March 18, 2010
Toby Thams (California)
I am perhaps overly sensitive, since I have been spoiled by owning equipment producing very high quality sound. This radio is specifically deficient in the base region, giving it a "metallic" sound. I also found it annoying that it occasionally pauses (buffering?).
Great Features but Fatal Design Flaw for Use in Wireless Networks March 4, 2010
P. Bye
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is almost an excellent and outstanding radio. It has a fatal design flaw that makes it very awkward and a nuisance to use in a secure (e.g. WPA or WEP) wireless network.
The great:
It really is an attractively-designed unit. Except as noted below, it set up fairly easily. It has very good sound quality, although obviously not audiophile level. For the couple of days that we owned it, it provided stutter-free clean sound. Choosing stations is fairly easy from its menu system. Its complimentary weather connection is useful and it even displays the temperature in your zip code on the display. I really like all aspects of the radio except for below.
The fatal design flaw:
For WPA wireless networks the radio can accept up to a 36-character WPA key. (Note - the WPA standard allows up to 63 characters so you may have to shorten your key so it is compatible with this radio. If you do this, change the key on the router and ALL computers and other devices connected to the wireless network.)
BUT THE REAL FLAW: The radio forgets the WPA encryption key if AC power is disconnected for even an instant. The key must be re-entered to reconnect to the wireless network. This is true even if the three AAA batteries are installed since the batteries just back up the display and the alarms. For me this is unacceptable. Entering the key is tedious. To do this every time power is disconnected or lost for even an instant is unacceptable.
I assume although do not know for sure that the same is true for WEP keys.
I called Acoustic Research. They say it is a design choice to enhance security. If the radio is removed or stolen, it will not have the key so it cannot be used to gain access to your wireless network. OK but that seems irrelevant. The radio can be told to completely erase its memory. And if it were stolen, you can change the key in your wireless network. This is better than having to re-enter the key every time there is a hit on the AC power. So for me this radio gets returned.
I am replacing it with a Logitech Squeezebox Radio. Logitech says that both the Radio Logitech Squeezebox Radio and the Boom Logitech Squeezebox Boom All-in-One Network Music Player / Wi-Fi Internet Radio retain the network ID (SSID) and key so long as your router is set to broadcast its SSID. If the router does not broadcast its SSID then the radio will assume it has been moved and not retain the SSID and key.
 NOT WORTH EVEN THE DISCOUNTED PRICE February 24, 2010
Richard Zalewski (Arizona)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The manual does not match the current programming. Not easy to switch between modes. Lots of delays between modes. I had a strong signal from my wireless network but getting into any of my selected stations did not work. Kept getting server errors. Save your time and spend a bit more.
 THIS IS THE THIRD ONE I HAVE BOUGHT January 21, 2010
Arthur Etchells (Philadelphia PA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the third internet radio of this type that I have bought
We love classical music but can not get a wide variety locally.
This one was for my wife in the kitchen.
I had it working within about one half hour out of the box.
The internet progamming option did not seem to work right away so I programmed
our four favorite classical stations by hand.
It has been working fine every since.
While I have three of these the brand names on them differ. Two are RCA and one is AR
I read someplace they are all the same and the seem to be.
AR Internet Radio January 19, 2010
Gift Card Recipient (Louisville, KY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This unit is OK at best. I can only get a few internet radio stations and they arent that great. Every now and then an alert, with sound will just come out of the speakers and I have to fumble around to turn it off. The buttons are very slick and I often press the wrong one when navigating and its slow to respond. Sound is OK.
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