A new Nixie Tube Radio

Mate, you are looking well - good to see

At this point in time, I find it appropriate to revisit this cautionary video: https://youtu.be/B2bbB_7CFew

I'm so late, the video dropped on Youtube before I had time to watch it on Patreon. And it's about a 4-year late product. That I won't comment on because my mom told not to. Great entertaining video, thanks!

Really seems like someone forgot to adjust the gain on the DAB tuner. DAB is touchy to begin with so getting that right is crucial.

Video quality and camera work looks great!

Sure, sure, sure ... the DAB+ may have been sketchy ... and, well, the FM, too ... and the speaker was ... making noise ... but HOW ABOUT THOSE NIXIE TUBES, huh??? I mean, sure, you had to fix the assembly error and there is no real 5 but ... Yeah.

I very much enjoyed the video. I don't think I could say the same for the product being reviewed.

Bit of a garbage novelty radio.

What a cool idea. But one of them crooked and pretty crappy reception.. Hmm.. It seems not quite finished after 4 years.. I’ll pass and go look for a clock instead I think :)

I'll say this: it certainly looks the part. Nixies just look better inside a midcentury-style cabinet.

Another banger ❤️

Such a shame this didn't work out. But the video was very entertaining nevertheless, so silver cloud and all that!

Any chance of putting the 1.0 edit back online for the TM completists? 😅

Dolly🥰

I think we can come to the conclusion that building a good radio is a lot harder than building a nixie clock.

4 years seems about right for a Kickstarter. The last one I backed took just over 3 years from go to whoa.

That was truly the greatest way you could have ended that review. WHEW... it had NOTHING going for it. I can't believe that thing was $340. In reference to your mention on small speakers not producing big sound- may I point you to the Muzen Portable Bluetooth Speaker (and radio). The sound it produces is truly incredible. Rich- big- precise sound. I don't sell them... I just love it.

I missed the unedited video in which I assume Mat pronounces the type of wood as wenj (rhymes with Stonehenge). That's just how I pronounced when I first saw it about 15 years ago listed as an optional wood for a Tivoli Audio Model One radio. I have since learned from YouTuber Robert Dunn, not from his car channel "Aging Wheels" but from his woodworking channel "Under Dunn" that he pronounces it as wengy (rhymes with Ferengi).🙂

Wenge's pronunciation makes perfect sense if you hear somebody else pronounce it first. How else would you spell it? Maybe "wen-ge" or "wengue." Or rename it altogether

Shame that didn't work out, the tarnish (or dirt) on the brass bezel didn't look great either for a premium product. I keep meaning to ask, how is your sense of taste holding up now?

Are you supporting any Kickstarter items? It is you I have to blame my addition to kickstarter. Mine are video and table top RPG Games. Did you mention the price?

What are the other Kickstarter reviews like? Are all speakers sounding like this, or is your unit a bit faulty?

I think it’s only DAB not DAB+ which would explain why it was tuning into blank stations. Also the burbles are only normally heard on DAB, DAB+ just mutes on a poor signal.

What a shame… does seem to be a bit of a let down 😢. I wouldn’t be able to use it as an expensive clock either as I really don’t like the way those upside down “2’s” look as “5’s”. I’d be gutted to have spent so much and waited so long and then found those tubes skewing off straight out of the box like that. Not being in the know with kick starter , can you return it? Video was great though and hopefully this will help others decide if they want one or not. It’s certainly made my mind up! Thanks for sharing, regards.

At least here in Italy it's s pronunciated vengé with hard V and G and it's an african wood.

Ahhhh I’m looking forward to this one, live Nixie tube devices 😁 Lee

I also backed this and mine arrived the other day. Maybe I won't bother to open it! Whilst it doesn't excuse the radios very poor performance, some DAB stations sound horrible at the best of times being both heavily volume compressed and bit-rate compressed. Greatest Hits Radio always sounds a bit edgy with severe volume compression / limiting and I'm being kind there. BBC sounds fine as they know not to use heavily volume compression and the bit rates aren't horrendously low.

I bought one of these too - an American model, which has a different tuner. No DAB here. The FM radio is completely unusable, it sounds overdriven and distorted all the time. I emailed them and they told me it could be fixed with a firmware update, but, no firmware update has been forthcoming, and it's been about a year now. A real shame.

You’re looking well in this. Easy to forgot how you were a few months back! Shame the same can’t be said for the thing you’re testing.

Looks like a nice idea, but unfortunately not the best quality... Disappointing...

• Thanks for creating this video. I was really looking forward to a Nixie tube clock radio. Now I won't be upset that I couldn't afford it, thanks. 😉 • "the moment never ends" because the moment is spent trying to justify a four-year-long moment waiting for this... thing. • My guess is the Kickstarter summary didn't mention that their plan was to make DAB and FM sound like AM radio. • 'That piano's broken.' I snort-chuckled. • Your closing bit - I snort-chuckled AND I briefly choked on my water. 🤣 That was the comedy gold that I needed right now. • The closing bit also looked really good, composition-wise. You're an endless source of entertaining moments that never end. Take care 🤍.

"a bit hot/peaking": That are horrible distortions! what a disappointment!

I’m going to follow your mum’s advice and not say anything about the radio either. Great video though, as always!

Oh hey! I was part of the original Kickstarter for this. I'm looking forward to hearing what you have to say about it.

I'm a fan of original Nixie devices like frequency counters and other 60s test equipment. I do have a Nixie watch that is about 15 years old and never wear it but sometimes demo it for people. I like a watch that can show in real-time my Libre blood sugars. I'm really pleased a chap like you gets these things and reviews them in such an accessible way. You've saved me a few hundred quid. I think that radio needs a small OLED screen that can be blank most of the time but when required can display the station name, multiplex, signal strength, battery percent etc.