Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #339 in Consumer Electronics
• Colour: BLACK
• Brand: Pure
• Model: VL-61035
• Released on: 2008-09-25

Manufacturer's Description

From the world leaders in DAB radio comes ONE Elite - the radio for everyone.

ONE Elite For a stylish portable stereo radio with the latest features and a luxury feel, look no further, ONE Elite™ is here. ONE Elite not only looks great but has been engineered to sound fantastic, whether you want to tune in to your favourite DAB or FM stations or listen to your own music by plugging in your iPod and using ONE Elite as a portable stereo speaker set. From chromed controls and smooth curves to a tactile satin-touch finish, ONE Elite has a touch of class. Quality and style has never been this affordable. We’ve also packed ONE Elite full of features, including ReVu™ for live DAB radio pause and rewind, handy countdown and sleep timers, and separate bass and treble controls. Use the mains or listen for up to 70 hours using alkaline batteries or up to 35 hours per charge using the optional rechargeable ChargePAK.

EcoPlus™ is a statement of PURE’s on-going commitment to our environment and its future. It indicates that environmental impact has been considered in the design, manufacture and transport of our products, and has driven both what we do and how we do it. All EcoPlus products are packaged using cardboard produced with a minimum of 70% recycled material, and finished using water-based varnish. All internal pulp trays are 100% recycled, and the user documentation is printed on 100% recycled paper using Soya-based inks. We also encourage our customers to recycle all packaging materials. The boxes of EcoPlus products are designed to be the smallest they can be whilst still ensuring the integrity and security of the product inside. This maximizes the number of products which can be shipped in each container, and thus minimizes the environmental cost of transport.

Ease-Of-Use
Digital radios are much easier to use than analogue radios because they automatically search for all available stations. Once the radio has found all the available stations you just choose the one you want by name. No more trying to remember frequencies.

Wider Station Choice
With up to 55 DAB stations available in many areas, and more on the way, you’ll be spoilt for choice. As well as existing favourites like BBC radios 1-4, BBC radio 5 live, Classic FM and talkSPORT, there are also great exclusive-to-digital stations such as BBC 1Xtra, BBC 5 live Sports Extra, BBC 6 Music, BBC 7 and Planet Rock.

Digital Sound Quality
DAB is crackle-clear and hiss-free because it’s not subject to the same interference as analogue radio.

DAB Stations
There's more listening choice on DAB too. These great stations and many more are available in the UK on DAB digital radio. As DAB coverage varies, remember to check which stations are available in your area.

	Stereo Sound Twin 3" drive units provide a high quality stereo sound
	Line-in 3.5mm input enables you to connect an iPod, MP3 player or portable CD player and use the ONE Elite as a portable speaker
	ChargePAK An optional accessory for compatible models, ChargePAK is a rechargeable battery pack which fits into the battery compartment of your radio and charges when the radio is connected to the mains
	ReVu Allows you to pause live radio if you’re interrupted, rewind to listen again, or go to the beginning of a track to begin recording
	Kitchen Timer Handy countdown kitchen timer ideal for helping you time your cooking to perfection
	RDS Support for station name display on FM and RDS scrolling text
	Alarm Easy to use tone or radio alarm
	Clock with Sleep Timer Go to sleep with the radio on and it will power down after a set time
	Adjustable Bass and Treble Adjust the tonal range of the audio output to suit your preference
	TextSCAN This feature enables you to pause and control scrolling text: useful if you want to catch the title of a track, note down a competition phone number or rewind to catch a news item
	Intellitext Participating stations broadcast sports, news, or traffic reports which are stored on your radio so they are available on demand. Like Teletext on TVs, you can then search this stored scrolling text by category
	Presets 50 presets (DAB or FM)
	Headphone Output Listen through headphones (mutes speaker) or connect the headphone output to your stereo and use as a DAB tuner
	USB Upgradeability A USB upgradeable product is one you can add new features and improvements to as they become available. Upgrades and full instructions are posted on the support pages of the PURE website, and if you’ve registered your product we’ll send you an e-mail to inform you when an upgrade is available

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Customer Reviews

Nearly 5 stars - just one niggle
I bought this radio for 2 reasons - a DAB for the bathroom (using a chargepak), and to connect my IPOD when away from home.
As a radio the unit is great - we have a weak DAB signal and our Evoke 2 had to have an external aerial to get a decent signal, but this unit finds a strong signal all over the house.
My one niggle is that the line in feature isn't what I would consider a line in feature. If you connect an IPOD to the line in socket you can't control the volume on the radio - only through the IPOD itself. This is ok if you connect the IPOD to the radio through the headphone socket, but not if you connect through the dock connector. This means I can't use my dock. Shame this feature is not included, this would have been a 5 star product if it had not been for this one "fault"

Does the job
This radio makes for a good addition to the kitchen or the living room. Its build quality is demonstrated through its robustness, grip and its luxurious matt finish. It has everything you'd expect from a decent DAB:

- Easy to read back-lit screen with bright white font as opposed to older, bleak LCD text.

- All stations are pre tuned and accessible via the seek dial.

- All the extras you'd expect from a radio of this calibre (ReVu rewinds live broadcasts by up to 15 minutes. Intelligent text gives more station information than the original radio data system).

- The battery compartment offers the "ChargePAK" which fills up with power whilst connected to the mains to give it the portability factor (although 6 C Cells will do the job).

- The essential clock and alarm feature as standard.

However there are a couple of things that disappointed me about this radio. It may not be the case with everyone, but I found the power jack to be very temperamental; every time I move it, it turns its self off and I have to jiggle the plug until it regains power. I was also disheartened to discover that certain stations were unavailable such as Q Radio and other stations abroad. Despite the crisp sound this radio's two speakers produce, they actually operate in mono when one would expect stereo on a modern age (and pricey!) piece of kit.

Overall, though I do feel this radio does slight injustice to the word 'elite', it is definitely worth serious consideration if you intend to purchase a DAB radio. A mighty fine contender!

spoilt by poor design
Well overall its not bad I suppose, but I resent a few features that I consider to be poor design. Firstly the volume control is not progressive it is incremental....for bedside use for instance the quietest increment is too low, the next increment too high....whatever happened to an ordinary volume control so that I can choose the level not PURE!...then there's changing station, when you select the required channel on the display, you have to press in the large knob to select...but you have to do it with such force that it tips the radio over unless you hold the radio....listen PURE.... THIS IS NOT CLASSIC DESIGN !!!! ...I could go on...