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 tooume level, battery life, time, signal strength, EQ setting and favourite station mode.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #384 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Pure
• Model: VL-60911
• Released on: 2006-05-25
• Dimensions: 11.02 pounds

Features

• Portable Design
• DAB Radio / FM
• 20 Station Presets
• Mains Or Battery Operation
• USB Terminal

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

Excellent quality & value
I've had my One in my kitchen for about 7 months now and am very happy with it. It looks neat, the signal is strong, nice full-bodied sound in both FM and DAB modes. I find the buttons/dial combination quite intuitive, the dial just changes its function to suit the context, rather like the the select/reject buttons on a mobile phone. Just press the button and it switches on/off quickly, no need for fiddling about when you're short of time. Excellent value for money.

Love my pure radio
This portable radio is great. It's light to move, and I've got the rechargeable battery which means you can charge it up overnight and then the battery will last for ages. The sound quality is very good, and it's fantastic to get stations like BBC worldservice, which I can't get on my old radio.

The only minor complaint is that my display always shows the battery at 'full' and then suddenly the radio stops working, but that's not too much of a problem. The battery is good for 3-4 days of use without recharging and I use it a lot.

A superb radio - until my wife dries her hair
I'm sure this is a problem with DAB generally, but when my wife uses her hairdryer upstairs it affects the reception so much that any station becomes 'unavailable' and I have to switch to FM. As the radio has no AM (understandably) this means I can't listen to Five Live for about 7 minutes in the morning. Another negative is the battery life: there is none.

Some other niggles include the presets - it's not much quicker getting to your presets than finding a new station, as you have to go through the same process to do either: press button, twist dial, push button. Numbered preset buttons - 1 to 5 as other radios have - would have been handier.

However, just look at these positives:

> Its scrolling text. If you miss some info, just push and turn the dial anti-clockwise and the text scrolls back. Twist it clockwise and you can read ahead. And for an added bonus, the text still appears even if you're tuned to FM.

> It's quick to start up. Press 'On', it comes on. Simple, compared to a Sony DAB I have in the lounge. With that I have to switch on, press the DAB button and wait for the last station to appear. Then click on CD button, then back to DAB, then scroll up and down stations until it decides to tune in. True, it might be faulty, but with my One there's no hassle.

> It updates new/changed stations automatically. I don't know when or how it does this; all I know is that you don't have to do a station scan every so often. (Sony, again take note.)

> It has a solid build, and I've never had to max the volume - and it lives in a noisy kitchen.

> Prefer some quiet time? Plug in some headphones and listen in stereo sound, even though there's just one main speaker.

So, to recap, it's a perfect radio - just remember to hide your partner's hairdryer first.