With its diminutive tabletop design, the Televes Innova Boss Mix is ideal for tight apartments or dorm rooms: This $69 antenna includes a built-in amp to help improve reception, and even has a set of rabbit ears to elicit a touch of nostalgia. In our tests, the Innova Boss Mix did a reasonable job tuning in over-the-air broadcasts, especially considering its modest reception radius rating and compact proportions. If a compact antenna is all that you need, the Televes Innova Boss Mix is great, but folks wanting top-tier performance that rivals the best TV antennas won't quite find it here.
Design With an ovoid chassis and a non-marking foam-coated U-shaped base, the Innova Boss Mix is made for tabletop or shelf placement. It stands just over 4-inches tall, but also has two telescoping rabbit ear antennas that can be folded down in back and includes a built-in amplifier (rather than an inline booster). On the front bottom of the black antenna are a series of subtle green LEDs to let you know it's powered on and receiving a signal.
Setup The Innova Boss Mix proved particularly easy to set up. It has a detachable 4.8-foot coaxial cable — short by any measure.
But if you need to place the antenna farther from your set, you can easily replace it with another stretch of cable (a typical 10-foot coaxial cable costs about $10). In addition, unlike in-line boosters that have to be placed near the TV connection and plugged in, usually via a USB port, the Innova Boss Mix has the amp bu.