Pure

Pure One DAB/FM Portable Radio - Black

• DAB Digital and FM with RDS
• Colour: Black
• Mains and battery powered
• Takes 6 C batteries
• Up to 35 hours DAB battery life

Over 2 years of daily use and still going strong... !, 2008-12-02
I bought this DAB radio over 2 years ago on the strength of a favourable review in Which? magazine. I got it to use in work where the reception on traditional FM radios was notoriously poor, but this DAB radio picks up far more stations than I ever listen to, and the results were so impressive that two of my colleagues went straight out and bought the same radio. All three of them are still going strong despite some rough treatment and constant daily use.
The radio provides a good clear sound with plenty of volume for a small unit. It's easy to use with all of the controls handily placed in the same area at the front of the radio rather than spread across the sides and top. It has a handy display panel showing not just the station that you're tuned in to but also signal strength, volume and a digital clock.
About the only niggle I've found is that it doesn't have a proper carrying handle, but as I don't move it very far that's not much of a complaint.
Highly recommended for the money.

Pure ONE Elite DAB/FM Radio - Cream

• 50 presets (DAB or FM)
• 3.5mm input enables you to connect an iPod, MP3 player or portable CD player and use the ONE Elite as a portable speaker
• ReVu allows you to pause and rewind live radio, or go to the beginning of a track to begin recording
• Support for station name display on FM and RDS scrolling text
• Easy to use radio or tone alarm and Sleep timer

Pure Oasis

PURE OASIS, 2006-01-24
Excellent, no fuss, no nonsense DAB radio - Straight forward setup and facilities - Use as a radio' great sound - Battery life is 10 -15 hours; much better than anything else on the market.

Use as a mini-amp with mp3/CD player etc Super! Compact and Cute.

Pure Delight!

Pure ONE Mini DAB/FM Radio - Pink

• Portable Design
• DAB & FM Radio
• 20 hours playback (optional battery)
• up to 16 presets
• USB socket

Excellent DAB Radio and great value for money! Enviromental friendly too., 2008-10-16
The days of overpriced DAB radios are well and truly gone, and this ultra-compact number can be bagged for pocket shrapnel. Plasticky exterior aside, it's a good quality offering too, charitably throwing in extras such as an auxiliary input for MP3 players and mobiles, and the ability to use Pure's rechargeable battery packs when you're out and about.


It also has green enviromental factors too:
. Reduced power consumption (uder half# in operation and standby compared to other radios.
. The use of materials from recycled and substainable materials..
. the smallest possible packaging
. components selected to minimize enviromental imapact

A great buy and if you want a digital radio i would highly recommend this one - also comes with 2years warranty. I was worried about the sound and quality as its quite a small radio - but it dont half pack a punch - the Sound quality is excellent and its goes up quite high aswell. Perfect for the bedroom #nice and small for the bedside table) thats where i have mine.

Pure EVOKE-2S VL-61054 Portable Stereo DAB & FM Radio

• Portable Design
• Pause & rewind live DAB radio
• 30W RMS Output
• Alarm/timer
• Connect an iPod/MP3 player

Pure One DAB/FM Portable Radio - White

• DAB Digital and FM with RDS
• Mains, battery or Charge powered
• Up to 35 hours DAB battery life
• IntellitextTM for on demand access to broadcast sc
• textSCANTM to pause and control scrolling text

Great radio - shame about the clock, 2008-06-08
At the time of writing, 21 of the 25 reviews give this radio five stars. This tells you almost all you need to know. You'll almost certainly be very happy with the radio.

The other four award it four stars. Take the trouble to read what they say because they pinpoint one of the irritations I have found in this otherwise excellent radio.

The basic problem is the process for selecting stations. Before buying, I read the description that says the radio has 20 presets. I thought this would mean I could simply switch between preset stations by pressing one button. This was a feature I was looking for.

But this isn't how it works. Look at the picture. To select a station you press one of the small silver buttons which is labelled Presets. The screen then shows the name of the station stored on preset number 1. If you want this station, you press the big button in the middle. But if you want a different station you have to turn the big button to select the one you want. As you turn the button the screen shows each preset station in sequence. When you find the one you want, you press the big button to select it. The same process is used for selecting stations that are not stored as presets except that you start with the small button labelled Stations instead of Presets.

So instead of one action to select a station it's three - (1) press small button, (2) turn big button, (3) press big button.

If, like me, you have two stations that you listen to most of the time, you can use the small button that switches between FM and DAB as a preset button instead. If you're on a DAB station, pressing the FM/DAB button will take you to the last FM station you were listening to. Pressing the button once again will take you back to your last DAB station. The radio produces excellent sound on FM so it makes no difference in my area whether you listen to DAB or FM. This would not be the case in all areas.

This radio, like so many other items on sale today is made in China. The only disadvantage seems to be that its clock display appears to be running on Chinese time, with 65 seconds per minute instead of the 60 that are the norm for this time zone. (It's lucky that the clock doesn't also show days of the week. It's a little known fact that Mao Tse Tung was a great fan of the Beatles and it was through the influence of their music that he decided to switch China to eight days a week. This partly explains the country's economic success in recent years.)

"What can all this mean?" I hear you ask. If you will give me your very close attention I will explain.

What this means in practice is that the minute numeral (that's "minute" rhyming with "innit", not "my newt") on the time display will advance by one every 65 seconds. (Seconds are not displayed so you need to watch a clock with a second hand to check this.) So, for example, imagine that the minute numeral advances to ten past the hour at, say, three seconds past the minute. It will then advance to 11 minutes past the hour, not 60 seconds later but 65 seconds later at eight seconds past the minute.

This pattern continues every 65 seconds until around 58 seconds past the minute, by which time the minute numeral is advancing almost a minute late. However, at this point the clock makes an adjustment and just five seconds later it advances by a further minute. I hesitate to call it a correction because the clock is still not correct but at least it's only three seconds or so slow. This adjustment brings the clock the closest it gets to being accurate. It then begins the 65 second cycle again, losing five seconds every minute.

To find out why this might be happening I turned to the Pure website since although they don't make the radios they presumably produce the design. I was relieved to see under the Frequently Asked Questions section a question on why the clock on the radio was showing the wrong time. Briefly, the answer says that the time is broadcast by the broadcasters and if it's wrong on the radio this is because they are broadcasting the wrong time. The radio just displays what it's told by the broadcasters. So all is clear. The broadcasters are working on a 65-second minute, not the Chinese after all.

I turned to the BBC to find out why they had adopted this unusual practice. They denied that they transmit a time signal based on a 65-second minute. I have no way of checking this as I would need a second DAB radio to confirm whether they use conventional minutes or not. But I'm inclined to believe them and think it's more likely that the radio is doing this odd timekeeping.

Does this matter? Probably not. It's just bizarre that any software programmer would have chosen to make a clock advance one minute every 65 seconds instead of every 60 seconds. But if you find you've missed the first minute of a radio programme through relying on the clock radio for its start time, now you know why.

Post Script. I have now been advised by a Chinese friend that I was under a foolish misapprehension if I ever really believed that the Chinese use a 65-second minute. As for the eight-day week, this was just a case of half-remembered misinformation - it was actually a hard day's night that was the inspiration for the Chinese economic success.

PURE ONE Classic VL-61091 DAB Radio - Baby Pink

• RDS for FM station name display and RDS scrolling text
• Connect an iPod/MP3 player or portable CD
• ReVu(tm) to pause and rewind live DAB radio for up to 15 minutes
• Handy countdown kitchen timer
• Easy to use tone or radio alarm

Pure DMX20 Pure DMX-20 DAB/FM/CD Micro System

• Plays CD, CD-R & CD-RW discs
• 5W RMS per channel
• 2 Line-In Ports
• LCD display
• 10 DAB and 20 FM Presets

This is a nice piece of equipment., 2008-10-30
I'm very pleased with this unit. It's well built and sounds excellent.

I was really looking for a set PC speakers, and having looked at several models and tried one type, I decided they were not very well made, and had poor sound quality.

Then I came across the Pure DMX-20, with it's two auxiliary 3.5 mm input sockets. I linked the rear one to my PC sound card and was very pleased with the sound produced. Much better than ordinary PC speakers, and you get the radio and CD player built in.

It's easy to switch between the radio/CD player and the Auxiliary input using the controller.

Nice easy controls - but I would have liked a Balance control.

Overall, a very nice piece of equipment, with it's Rosewood speakers.

Archos 605 Wi-Fi Portable MP3 / Video Player 80GB

Great piece of hardware, 2008-05-09
One of the best models released by Archos a 160GB hard drive holds lots of films, music, photos, even use it to back up a computer whether it be a mac or windows it is compatible with both. What has been added to this series is the wi-fi facility if you have broadband you can sit and pick up the internet and surf the web or even in any hotspots. It's the ideal machine if you have long journeys it's light portable and the 4.5" screen is crystal clear having had the previous model to this one which had half the memory they have certainly surpassed themselves at Archos it's easy to use and stores masses of data whatever you want to put on it.

Pure ONE Elite DAB/FM Radio - White

• 50 presets (DAB or FM)
• 3.5mm input enables you to connect an iPod, MP3 player or portable CD player and use the ONE Elite a
• ReVu allows you to pause and rewind live radio, or go to the beginning of a track to begin recording
• Support for station name display on FM and RDS scrolling text
• Easy to use radio or tone alarm and Sleep timer

Great Radio, 2008-12-31
Superb quality of sound and build quality. Ideal radio for a kitchen space with plenty of umph and stero quality.