Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21774 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Pure
• Model: VL-60973
• Released on: 2008-09-16

Manufacturer's 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.

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Customer Reviews

Good but not good enough
As I couldn't decide between this and the Sony XDRC705DAB Clock Radio I did the logical thing and bought both! They had both received decent reviews and due to Amazons excellent return service I decided I had nothing to lose. So, tonight, I've pitted them against each other. Placed side by side I started them off scanning the airwaves. The Sony won this first round, capturing quite a few more stations than the Pure. Next, came the sound quality round. Again, the Sony won. The Pure sounds far more woolly with less resolution. As for ease of use I have to give this round to Sony again. I found the layout of the Pure's butttons confusing and although the menu system on both is very similar, the Pure's small display compared to the Sony's did make things less clear. Oh, and the Sony is smaller too so takes up less space on my bedside cabinet. So there you have it. If you are undecided like me between these two units, go for the Sony.

Does what it says on the tin
I am very impressed with this clock radio. The radio sound is clear and has an excellent stereo sound if you are listening with headphones late at night. I had no issues with tuning; in fact I had no need for the stringy bit of aerial wire, so it is curled up under the clock out of sight.
My only word of caution, is that if, like my wife, you like to set the time ahead of what it actually is (don't ask) you can forget it. The time is set automatically via the digital broadcast!

Good but with some annoying flaws
On the whole this is a good product. The version i have a got a few years ago so they might have modified it. The radio is good the design is nice and it works well. However a few problems both with the display:

It's really bright, even at it's dimmest settings it can light up the room. Also it is designed for the radio so is geared to having two lines of text, When showing the time it show it really small with the date on the second line and doesn't show the time at all when playing radio.

I do like this product but it could be better.