THE first thing that millions of people see and hear in the morning is ugly. We’re not talking about significant others. It’s the clock radio, which has a functional appearance at best, and a sound ...

If you’ve read this column in the past you know just how fond I am of the late Henry Kloss’ table radios, from the KLH models from the ’60s through the Cambridge SoundWorks of the ’90s. Now, more than ...