Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1230 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Pure
• Model: VL-61088
• Released on: 2008-09-22

Manufacturer's Description

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

ONE Classic Developed from the What Hi-Fi? 5 Star award-winning ONE, ONE Classic is a DAB and FM radio that looks great, sounds fantastic and is incredibly easily to use. With a smooth satin-touch finish, a choice of colours, and the latest features, including an input for your iPod/MP3 player or CD and ReVu™ for live DAB pause and rewind, ONE Classic has something for everyone. ONE Classic offers up to 40 hours of portable listening per charge of the optional rechargeable ChargePAK C6L, reducing the cost to you and to the environment. Alternatively six standard C size alkaline batteries will give you up to 80 hours play time. Features also include FM with RDS, Intellitext®, textSCAN™, kitchen and sleep timers, a backlit display and USB upgradeability.

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.

	Line-in 3.5mm input enables you to connect an iPod, MP3 player or portable CD player and use the ONE Classic as a portable speaker
	ChargePAK An optional accessory for the ONE Classic, the C6L 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, so you can take the radio wherever you want. The C6L ChargePAK has the added benefits of being much more economical than regular batteries and significantly kinder to the environment, reducing the quantity of batteries that end up in landfills
	ReVu Allows you to pause and rewind live radio if you're interrupted so you can listen again
	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
	Station Presets 30 DAB or FM presets in a combined list to help organise your favourite stations
	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 PURE will send you an e-mail to inform you when an upgrade is available

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Customer Reviews

Does what it does. Well.
After alot of umming and ahhing, reading countless reviews, I bought this lovely looking radio for my kitchen to replace my aging Sony FM.

This has great reception on both DAB and FM in my area - and we don't have a particularly strong signal.

Overall, you are buying a radio to listen to. So, if you want a nice looking, crisp sounding and well built radio which picks up radio signals and plays them (!) you cannot go far wrong with this great liile box of tricks!

Really happy!

A really great radio
The Pure One Classic is my first DAB radio. I bought it from Amazon to replace my old Sony portable whose rechargeable batteries forever need changing, frustratingly just when I'm listening to something special! I also bought the Pure ChargePAK which fits inside the radio. It costs not much more than 2 sets of 4 rechargeable AA batteries and a charger. Fantastically it recharges whenever the radio is connected to the mains even when the radio is turned off so I keep the radio connected to the mains and simply pull out the plug at the back of the radio when I want to use it as a portable in the bathroom or shed etc. If left unconnected from the mains, the battery lasts ages before needing a recharge.
The on/off button is the medium size button bottom right in the photo. The large knob is the volume knob.
To select or set the functions of the radio one simply presses one of the small silver buttons surrounding the large central knob then turn the large central knob clockwise to scroll through the options of that particular button. To select the required option just press the large central knob inwards. - Dead easy!
The reception is good both in DAB and FM and the sound quality is really good especially when the bass and treble are tweaked to taste. The written instructions are good and clear. I enjoy the scrolling text advising of the current programme or the title of the music being played.
I chose the white colour option which fits in very comfortably in the bathroom, kitchen and bedroom - much better than dull black! It also has a kitchen timer, an alarm function and a socket for playing an MP3 player although I haven't used these yet.

I find myself listening to this radio much, much more than previously (I'm listening to it now in the background while I'm typing this) and without fear of the batteries running out. I really enjoy this radio. It is a November 2008 Which? magazine Best Buy so you can't really go wrong. I recommend it.

Fantastic
I bought this item for my study (to listen to a bit of DAB Classical music while studying).

Now, I have an entire library of iTunes songs and of course you can get radio online. But it's not the same coming from a computer/laptop. So getting a radio was the only way to go, and I felt like splashing out on something which would give a good quality reception.

Within about 60 seconds of receiving this item, it was unpacked, plugged in, had autotuned itself and was ready to run. The sound is great, it's a fantastic design which doesn't draw too much attention to itself. Decent size, can go relatively loud if you want it to. Nothing major to complain about.

I've given it five stars because as well as providing excellent sound quality, it's very easy to use with an intuitive menu layout and useful central rotating (and inwards-pressing knob). It does exactly what I wanted it to do and it's money well spent in my mind.

There are two or three very minor annoyances though. One - the volume has a wide range and has about 15 different levels (selected using the knob). But towards the bottom, i.e. between 0 (silent) and 1, it's quite a distinctive gap, relatively speaking. Level 1 is of course very quiet, but I would have liked it to be a bit quieter. Maybe in a kitchen you wouldn't notice this (or need such a low level), but alone in a study it would be nicer to have a bit more control over how quiet the quietest volume level is. Two - I have this radio sat about 80cm in front of me to my right on my desk. As such, most of the time I'm leaning over to press buttons. I wouldn't say the buttons are stiff, but they require some sort of pressure to press properly. Because of this, say you were to press one of the smaller buttons at the top of the U shaped layout, you'd need to use the other hand (or a finger from the same hand) to hold the radio in place. Otherwise it would simply fall over. If the buttons had been located on the top, this wouldn't be a problem. But I'm nit-picking here, it's not a major issue at all. Indeed, radios are usually left to play for hours without fiddling about. The volume button is easy to turn with a couple of fingers.

But generally speaking, it's a fantastic peice of equipment and I hope to get many years' use out of it.