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 haven?t experienced DAB yet, you?re 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 there?s 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. ChargePAK? 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®, textSCAN?, 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-C6X?; around 35 hours from six C size batteries; or connect to the mains for home listening. Ease of Use & Style We?ve 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: #4034 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Pure
• Model: VL-60795
• Released on: 2006-05-25
• Dimensions: 15.43 pounds

Features

• Timers: Sleep and kitchen timers
• Speaker: Full-range 3" drive unit
• 9V DC power adapter socket (230V adapter supplied). Mini USB connector for software upgrades.
• 3.5 mm headphone socket

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

Brilliant!
I have wanted on of these for years, so I did my research and discovered Pure is a top brand. I have been very pleased with the sound quality, and the fact I can get my local radio station (which I was never able to). I am also very pleased with the colour - PINK! - it brightens up my life.

Love it!
My husband got me this for Christmas, and I love it! The sound is surprisingly good, as good as a radio with stereo speakers, I think. And it clearly picks up many DAB stations (my bedside clock radio only gets one station clearly, so I'm happy to have a choice of stations). The built-in timer even came in handy when I misplaced the kitchen timer. Highly recommended.

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.