[Closed] best portable dab radio?

'Small' does not equal 'punch'
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We have a Pure One Classic which we got as a wedding gift. It's 'normal radio size' and has a pleasing tone and is perfect in our kitchen/diner. It's a nice bit of kit IMO 🙂
Nowadays I'd not bother buying one if I didn't already have one TBH, I'd just stream it from the computer in the corner or from my phone off a dock of some sort, mainly because there's a bigger variety of stations on the web and there's no reception issues

IMHO DAB radios get through batteries rather quickly compared to non-digital radios - or are you after one for use with earphones..?

Very happy with this - http://www.trustedreviews.com/pure-one-flow_Portable-Audio_review

Mind you, I got it for £49.99 from a local Tesco Extra which makes it a cracking deal IMHO.

I got a very cheap Technika from Tesco last year and some rechargeable LSD batteries and charger from Strikalite. Ever so pleased - I use it on site all the time and it even works well sitting on the passenger seat of the car.

thanks

ideally i want to use it in the garage while i do a bit of gym work. i tried using my phones radio app but it loses the buffer after a few mins, and virgins 'superhub' isnt so super as it doesnt reach the outside of my house >-(

if i could get that sorted, i might be better off buying a bluetooth speaker like a jambox or something. but i just thought sod it, might as well cut out the faffing and just buy a dedicated radio.

cheers

Check out tivoli think they might have something along those lines.

Got a Pure One with the rechargeable battery, it gets used all over the house/shed. Seems to go a while between charges,but I had heard that they use more energy.

I've got a Pure One Mi, and it's a bit 'thin' sounding, there's no bass to speak of, and while its fine if you have it close by, I expect if you're doing gym stuff, the noise might drown it out. Tesco are doing the Pure One for £55 at the moment, which I reckon is the best value for money. http://www.tesco.com/direct/pure-one-classic-portable-dabfm-radio-black/204-5809.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=204-5809

I've got a Ruark R1. That's got punch, it's a great sounding dab radio. Also got a R4 but that's probably bigger than what you're after.

At home and on site working I use the Pure Oasis
al you gonna need.

My mum has a wee Roberts that seems to work well.

Pure Classic series II.. great little radio and can get a re-chargable pak so doesnt always need mains. £55 from pcworld / currys

Nowadays I'd not bother buying one if I didn't already have one TBH, I'd just stream it from the computer in the corner or from my phone off a dock of some sort, mainly because there's a bigger variety of stations on the web and there's no reception issues

I've got a Pure One Mi, and it's a bit 'thin' sounding, there's no bass to speak of, and while its fine if you have it close by, I expect if you're doing gym stuff, the noise might drown it out.

I've got a Ruark R1. That's got punch, it's a great sounding dab radio. Also got a R4 but that's probably bigger than what you're after.

just looking at a few of your links, trying to sort out what id be after, and what i dont need. as i said, im just after something that plays 6 music with a decent sound quality, not after bells and whistles such as recording, or unnecessary fm.

thanks

EDIT: dont really understand RMS, but i see the evoke flow is 7W RMS, whilst others just list a '3" speaker unit', and others a 3" speaker unit and 7W RMS.
the oasis flow is a 4" speaker unit and 10W RMS.

am i likely to be able to tell the difference in these?

been googling and decided the pure one elite series 2 will give me the best sound for the money.

thanks a lot

I've just been into Sainsbury's for beer and scotch, and they've got some pretty decent looking DAB radios on sale for £25-35, reduced by about 50%, which is pretty good seeing as how their reduced price Pure One Mi is £25! They have what look to be decent size speakers, the more expensive one is stereo, so it might be worth you taking a spin round your nearest Sainsbury's, and having a shufti, you might get a bargain.
You can always take it back if you don't like it!

ah right, nice find. can you remember what makes/models they were besides the Mi?
itll be worth a look, so thanks a lot 🙂

I've had a Pure Move for years. I like it.

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Battery life isn't bad but it isn't the loudest. On/Off switch is a masterpiece of form over function.

Umm, Red-something or other? One looks a bit like a Pure, round cornered, alloy fascia, single speaker, the other looks a bit more 'traditional', with a speaker at each end. Sorry, not being terribly helpful there, am I?
Yes, it's the two Red models on the top two rows of this page:
http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/sol/shop/technology/cd_playershi_fi_and_radio/dab_radio/list.html
I'm sure they were cheaper in store, but even so, they're not that expensive.

No need for a DAB radio. [url= https://jawbone.com/speakers ]Jawbone Jambox speaker[/url] plus iPhone / IPad / Mac / Android device etc. Connect device to speaker via Bluetooth play music from Spotify, TuneIn Radio, iTunes etc and away you go. The Jawbone speaker also has a battery, making them portable. They sound good too.

What about using podcasts on your smartphone?

thought about the podcast route, but theres just not enough decent casts for my liking, i looked at that a while ago. and i need a decent sound. which is where the jambox could come in.

i do like those jamboxes but.....as my virgin wifi's sh*t and doesnt reach my garage, and my phone loses the 6 music buffer after a few minutes, its looking like it needs to be a dedicated radio.

ill have a sneaky look in sainsburys tomorrow methinks.....

It's all fine and dandy talking about streaming radio on a phone, but a week listening to three hours of 6Music will eat a huge amount of your data allowance. 3 hours = 100Mb; 5 days listening to one show a day and there's 500Mb gone, two weeks, and that's a whole month, 1Gb of data. Very few people have unlimited data, and even that has some sort of limit, BT broadband has a 10Gb limit.
With a DAB radio there's no issue with data allowances. Or buffering, as sadexpunk has found. And £25-40 for a DAB radio isn't a bank-breaker.

thanks CZ, popped into sainsburys and got meself a half price Red dab. £30.

as is usual for me tho, im still not sure i made the right decision 🙂
sounds fine, but now im starting to think about the pure elite, and how itd be better for barbecues, camping etc with a chargepak, and connectability of mp3 players/phones etc to play through.

thing is, we're talking £30 against £100. ho hum..... :-/

pure oasis by far the best

looks what id want yep, but its £100 more than what i just paid. plus a £30 chargepak too? shame but i just cant justify it :-/

Just got my Mum a limited edition orange finish [url= http://www.hifigear.co.uk/ruark-audio-r1-dab-radio-system.html ]Ruark R1 DAB radio[/url], sounded a lot larger than it is, kind of retro funky styling, especially in Tango finish :0)

still googling away and noticed the evoke 3 can record shows to an sd card, which appeals to me, altho google suggests that there seems to be a fair bit of software probs connected to this model.
any other makes have this sd card ability? itd be nice to use an EPG to store a few progs for when theres nowt on the radio. i was going to say also a radio tht could take a connection from a phone to play music stored on that, but the sd card would take care of that side of things.

any suggestions?

thanks

Ive just bought a roberts ecologic1 takes4 aa batteries and can recharge them fro m the mains power pack well made and decent sound for the size£46
offebay

thinking more about it, i didnt know about this ability to record to sd cards before, and i really want that now 🙂

so...... record to sd, long batter life (chargePAK) and decent sound seem to be my main requirements. i cant see past the evoke 3, unless anyone knows of a different make that does these same specs?

cheers