Product Description

Chronos II maintains the stylish design and aluminium facia that made the original so popular, but is now available in two colours, has an improved display, automatic light sensor and includes FM with RDS. If you haven?t experienced DAB digital radio yet, you?re in for a treat. Select stations by name, see news and track titles on the scrolling text display, tune at the touch of a button, and listen in crisp, clear, digital-quality sound. And there?s more listening choice on DAB too ? in many areas up to twice as many stations as FM. Of course, Chronos II still has plenty of bedside features, such as a large clock display, four independent alarms (each of which can be set for weekdays only, weekends only or as a one-off), a snooze timer and a sleep timer. Other features include PURE?s Intellitext®, for browsing stored scrolling text, textSCAN? to pause and control scrolling text and a USB port to add new features as they become available. All EcoPlus products are designed and manufactured to minimise their environmental impact, with: Reduced power consumption Use of materials from recycled and sustainable sources Optimum packaging size for transport efficiency Selection of components with minimised environmental impact

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1577 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Pure
• Model: VL-60909
• Released on: 2007-08-29
• Dimensions: 3.31 pounds

Features

• White finish. 2x20W halogen lamps supplied.
• Output: 410 lumens per lamp. Lamps can be rotated left/right and up/down.
• 3 LED indicators - 2 for lamps and 1 for mains. 2x12V 7Ah/20 HR sealed lea

Customer Reviews

Looks good, but pretty crap
It probably is better than the original, but mine broke after a week.

You cant set the radio to come on and then an alarm, without setting two separate alarms and its fiddly.

also crap aerial, its just a piece of wire, cant believe they cant supply a proper metal one, especially as DAB is hard to receive in some areas.

Nice piece of kit, but the screen is far too bright,
Over all this is a quality device, the build quality is good, there has clearly be a lot of thought put into the design, the buttons are logically laid out and easy to use. The sound quality is impressive, its so crisp and clear it hardly requires any volume to hear it. The set of alarm options are comprehensive, I can see why some people might see it as fiddly to set an alarm but the flexibility of options weekday\weekend\sat\sun\once means you hardly ever have to change things once they are set up.

The clock also has a USB port so that you can update its software to fix bugs, and upgrade it to DAB+ when it come out (there will be a cost for this).

Its not perfect though, its a little on the chunky side compared to older clock radios.....nothing stupid, but it could do with being 10%-15% smaller. The screen size is a little small especially considering the amount of real estate on the front of the device. The viewing angle of the screen is quite restrictive, my bedside cabinet is about a foot higher than my bed, and I can't see the time without lifting my head. The screen is still abit too bright at night even when the brightness is turned right down. There are also a few glitches with the display where it doesn't refresh the content and the time gets imposed over the top of something it shouldn't.

EDIT: After initially being impressed I eventually returned this as the screen brightness even at lowest levers was unacceptable.

Finaly sleeping in the dark!
I thought it would be impossible to find, but Pure Chronos II is the one! You can choose manual or auto dimmer and it really works! The alarm is so easy to set up (and you can set up up to 4 different ones - weekday/weekend/one off...). You don't have to be woken up by the same station you listened last time or your second half was woken up by. You can choose DAB or FM (should you be in a very bad DAB reception area like I am!). Very stylish and there is an easy to access input for earphones too. It is a bit expensive but well worth it. A must have.