Product Description

From the world leaders in DAB comes a DAB and FM portable radio that looks good, sounds great and is unbelievably easy to use. With its stylish exterior, chrome controls, and great audio performance, ONE looks and sounds fantastic, wherever you listen. If you havent experienced DAB yet, youre in for a treat: station selection by name, scrolling text display, all stations tuned-in at the touch of a button and crisp, clear, digital sound. And theres more listening choice too; in many areas up to twice as many stations are available on DAB as are available on FM. ONE is a truly portable DAB radio. ChargePAKTM ready as standard, ONE also offers class-leading battery life, with around 35 hours of DAB listening from six standard C size batteries. In addition to DAB usability, station choice and sound quality, ONE also features FM with RDS for areas where DAB is currently unavailable. Not to mention a host of other features including Intellitext®, textSCANTM, kitchen and sleep timers, a backlit display and USB upgradeability. All the benefits of DAB More station choice, station selection by name, scrolling text display, easy autotune, and crisp, clear sound. Portability Around 20 hours of portable DAB listening from the optional, rechargeable ChargePAK-C6XTM; around 35 hours from six C size batteries; or connect to the mains for home listening. Ease of Use & Style Weve used our expertise as world leaders in DAB to produce a radio that not only sounds great but is intuitive and easy to use too

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40461 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Pure
• Model: VL-60795
• Released on: 2006-05-25
• Dimensions: 15.43 pounds

The Independent
THE TEN BEST DIGITAL RADIOS - Number One, best buy award.

Manufacturer's Description
DAB/FM Portable Digital Radio.ONE is the easily affordable portable DAB/FM digital radio, bringing you the latest sports coverage and the widest choice of music while you're out and about. An ideal first digital radio, ONE has a winning combination of ease-of-use and great new features, plus all the benefits of DAB, including more stations, crystal-clear audio, station selection by name and broadcast scrolling text. And if you roam beyond digital coverage the listening doesn't stop because FM with RDS is included too.

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Customer Reviews

This is The ONE ! DABble now...
I have resisted the temptation to buy DAB since I live in an area where it is very difficult to receive FM and television signals, side of a hill and everything. Also put off by the generally over £100 price tags of decent makes - eg PURE which always gets excellent reviews. When I saw the One advertised I went for it - and I am NOT DISAPPOINTED. It picks up a vast number of stations, all the main BBC ones no trouble, in fact I think only three or four stations in this area can't be received. And the FM reception is vastly superior to any other radios in the house.

This is an attractive radio - I actually have the white one, I think the black one looks a bit cheaply plastic, whereas the white is cool - my daughter preferred the pink one. Huge extending aerial seems the reason for the good station pickup. Good sound, with reasonable bass. Although there's only one speaker it picks up stereo and has a stereo headphone jack to plug in your hi-fi if you need it. 20 presets, which you access by pushing the preset button and turning the big dial to choose your favourite - pushing the dial acts like an enter key. You get to choose options for what appears on the display, you can update its software through a USB port (obviously not needed to do this yet) and its even got sleep and wake-up timers on it. A great boys toy...

As I have pointed out, I have never had a DAB radio so can't do a comparison, but the sound and looks are great, its intuitive to use, and the price is a killer for a PURE radio. Excellent. Quibbles? None really, except that if you want to be able to make it portable its looks like the best bet is to buy a chargePAK, which recharges when you plug the radio in the mains and then powers it when you unplug, and they seem expensive to me at thirty quid.

In short - if you've dallied and delayed in dabbling with DAB - this is The ONE - groan...

Good reception. poor ergonomics
The reception of this radio is truly excellent - I can carry it around the house without the aerial extended, with hardly any reception problems.

Sound quality is good, as is build quality.

Get a chargepak (you need the C6x, the standard one won't fit) - a set of batteries costs £7.50, so it will very soon pay for itself.

My big gripe is with the ergonomics, which I think are poor.

The twenty presets are not really presets at all, as you can't just press one button and go straight to the station you want. Really what the Pure One offers is a favourite stations list and no presets. To find your station, you have to look at the display, scroll through the list until you find the one you want, and then press the select knob. NOT a quick process! The list doesn't even position itself relative to the station you're on - it always starts at position 1. So for example, if you are using preset 9 and want to go to preset 10, you have to scroll though nine stations to get to preset 10.

The daft thing is, this radio has seven buttons that could have been used for proper one-touch presets, and they have been used for other, less frequently used functions, such as the timer (which I never use), and these buttons are not even in any logical order! Get a grip, Pure, and think about how your radios will actually be used!

This is a very good piece of kit, spoiled by a badly designed and irritating user interface.

cracking little radio for the price
Excellent little DAB radio

This really is a cracking little radio for the price. Many people have grown accustomed to DAB radios costing a hundred pounds and upwards so to see their price coming down recently it's reassuring to see that the quality has stayed as high as it was.

Having moved to an area where FM reception was virtually non existent we decided to supplement our (admittedly very nice but also very expensive) roberts DAB with another couple of DABs for the house. The Pure One is definitely the best of those new radios. The case looks a bit plastic but on the whole it's an unobtrusive piece of kit and just sits there doing its job. It found all the major stations and a whole range of minor stations, certainly far more than we could ever find on FM, and if you still can't find what you want then FM is available.

Some of the features seem a bit silly. For example the preset station is almost as cumbersome as selecting the station without the presets. To select a station without the presets press 'station' and turn the main dial to your station. To use the presets press 'preset' and turn the main dial to your station. But with 20 presets that's as long winded as the non preset method! It has a kitchen timer built in for no readily apparent reason that I can see. It has a sleep timer which is sort of useful I suppose but wouldn't it be a good idea to put in a wake up timer as well? the radio knows the time so would it be so hard to do?It also has the ability should you really want it to be able to update the radio's software, though I can't really see anyone being desparately worried about doing that. If they really wanted to add features then why not pause and rewind? But then again it is a cheap DAB radio.

All in all a cracking little radio for the money. Remarkably good sound quality for a little box, unobtrusive and very usable.