Product Description

The World's Most Advanced Digital Radio. What Hifi Sound&Vision Product Of The Year 2006.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7642 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Pure
• Model: EVOKE 3
• Dimensions: 7.48" h x 3.94" w x 11.42" l, 8.82 pounds

Features

• Portable Design
• Electronic Programme Guide Compatible
• SD Card Slot
• REVU Technology
• DAB (Band III&L-Band)&FM RDS Reception

What home cinema
...the secret behind EVOKE-3's overall success, is its simplicity despite that plethora of recording options. Best Buy award.

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Personal Computer World Recommended Award - April 2006
What Hi-Fi? Sound & Vision 5 Star Award - May 2006
Trusted Reviews Editor's Choice Award - May 2006
T3 Gold Award - June 2006
What Home Cinema Best Buy Award - June 2006
Hi-Fi Choice Best Buy Award - July 2006
Stuff Hot Buy Award- August 2006
What Hi-Fi? Sound & Vision Radio Product of the Year 2006
Best Digital Radio - CNET AWARDS 2006
Boys Toys - DAB Radio of 2006 - January 2007
LBC Radio (Steve Allen Show) - DAB Radio of the Year (no award logo avail)
Get Connected Product of the Year 2007 for the EVOKE range (trade only)
Windows XP Editors Choice Award July 2007
What Hi-Fi? Sound & Vision 5 Star Award - August 2007

Manufacturer's Description
Hailed by the press as "The Best Portable Digital Radio In The World", "DAB radio at its finest" and "the best DAB radio we've come across",* EVOKE-3 is quite simply the most critically acclaimed and awarded DAB digital radio in the world.

EVOKE-3 comes packed with features, all easily accessible via its intuitive menu system and eight-line graphical display. View Electronic Programme Guide listings for seven days, choose the programmes you like, set multiple record times and EVOKE-3 will record over 30 hours of radio to SD memory card.+ Or play MP3s from the SD card if you prefer. And if your DAB listening is interrupted you can pause and rewind live radio using the PURE ReVu feature.

Truly versatile, EVOKE-3 can be used to amplify your iPod or as an input to your hi-fi and its USB connector means it's easy to upgrade too. EVOKE-3 is also now part of PURE's EcoPlus range - designed with the environment in mind.

We'll leave the final word to What Hi-Fi Sound & Vision magazine: "For those who want it all, this is all you want."

* T3 Nov 2006, TrustedReviews.com July 2006, and GadgetCandy.com June 2006 respectively.+ Based on typical broadcast of 128 kbps recorded to 2GB SD card (card not included).

All EcoPlus products are designed and manufactured to minimise their environmental impact, with: . reduced power consumption (see graph opposite) . use of materials from recycled and sustainable sources . reduced packaging size for transport efficiency . components selected to minimise environmental impact

Customer Reviews

Best Radio on Market
This is a superb piece of kit, and distinguishes itself by being very well made physically. Most radios are cheap plastic with a tinny sound (such as Roberts and Bush which used to be superb but are now cheaply put together in China). The functions are advanced with easy-to-use recording, alarms and presets. Remote control is good. This radio downloads the week's schedule for all radio stations, which you can use to record ahead simply by selecting the programme you're interested in. Pleasing to the eye, nice and weighty, powerful speakers with excellent sound. This is a good improvement on the (excellent) Evoke 2 (which I bought 3 years ago). The only complaint is that the memory card to which programmes are recorded is not included and must be bought separately for £30, but you can record 30 hours of audio on it. Overall excellent and priced correctly (£169.99 in John Lewis). This is a better purchase than half a dozen £40 digital radios, as those radios lack power.

Regret not buying this sooner!!!!
I think just about everything has been written about what this radio is capable of. My advice is buy it, shop around for the best price obviously, presently around £160. For goodness sake don't worry about DAB + compatibility ( its a few years away ) Just buy it and enjoy the truely amazing sound this produces. I guarantee you will fall in love with this remarkable piece of technology.
PS I was thinking of writing 4 or 5 paragraphs of pro and cons, but its all been done. I'm a DAB freek ! Heard and played around with loads of kit including radios in the Pure range, but presently this is overall the best DAB you can buy.

Great Radio, but no support for DAB+
This is a great sounding radio and it is extremely well specified, but it is not future compatible. Like most current DAB radios does not support the forthcoming DAB+ standard. In other words, it will be obsolete in around 5 years (the only model that currently supports DAB+ is the Cronos II). All manufacturers seem keen to keep this information hidden, for obvious reasons.

Although the Evoke 3 can record programmes to an SD card, the file format is Mp2, the native for digital radio. Unfortunately, virtually no Mp3 players and the iPod do not support Mp2 and you need to convert the files to listen to them on these devices, not a problems but something to be aware of.

Well worth purchasing if you can live with the above.