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I want a new DAB tuner to connect to my hifi separates. Can any one recommend one?
I could just connect my portable Pure Evoke but I'd rather buy a proper separate unit as the portable unit is great for walking around the house/shed/garden with and is often being used.
Cheers
anyone?
DAB quality isn't that great generally. I think I'd buy an FM tuner and a reasonable aerial and wait for a cheap internet radio unit to come out, if they aren't already available.
Funnily enough FM radio isn't that great either - lots of compression and the feeds to the transmitters are only 15bit (or used to be), and it only goes to 15Khz.
But DAB is also not awful - I am listening to some DAB broadcasts now from a Cowon MP3 player thingy through Shure SE530 in-ear phones and it sounds pretty ok, and it is only 128kb MP2 (so not as good as 128kb MP3). Still compressed (which it shouldn't be as the original idea was that DAB would not be compressed and the users radio would apply any appropriate compression).
You would do better to use a Freeview box if the stations you want are covered as the bit rates are general higher, and the form factor would be somewhat correct.
You could buy an old TopField PVR and then you would be able to record the shows you want (there are some good late night specialist shows), and transfer them off if you wanted to keep them for a bit longer.
Or you could get another Pure Evoke to maintain recording capabilities but it wouldn't look so good with your separates.
Personally I would get a sonos and enjoy internet radio together with everythign else it offers
http://marantz.co.uk/uk/Products/Pages/ProductDetails.aspx?CatId=Systems&ProductId=MCR603MelodyMedia
An excellent bit of kit. Currently blasting out a little bit of Jethro Tull....
Heavy Horses, in case you were wondering.
Don't discount the recording/timeshifting aspects...
thanks for the ideas so far
Forgot to say full size hi-fi separates but it's probably much easier to buy something like the one Flash linked to
TurnerGuy - Member
Don't discount the recording/timeshifting aspects...
what does that mean?
Cheapest option is probably to buy another Pure - I did.
I have a fully working FM / DAB Tuner full width Hifi Separate (think it's Sony) which I'm selling - will dig it out and find out what model it is if you're interested?
DAB might not be better quality than FM but the choice of music is far better, which is why I'd like it.
what does that mean?
ability to record interesting shows from overnight and listen to them later
footflaps - let me know the model number and how much you're looking for
where are you based?
It is a DENON TU-260L II - but looking at it, it's only AM/FM rather than DAB (it's been sat in a cupboard for the last year).
Looks like they're worth squat diddly now though. NB I'm in Cambridge.
Cheers footflaps but I have the same tuner already.
http://www.froogle.richersounds.com/product/tuners/cambridge-audio/azur-650t/camb-azur-650t-blk
cambridge audio do one
Trouble is, dab isn't a widely used standard (doesn't exist in the US for example) so there's not so many options
Damn, can't even give it away!
I have a lovely Hitachi FT5500mkII FM tuner sitting in the loft - worth nothing but an extremely good tuner (was next best to a Revox when I worked at the BBC).
I also have a full width Pure DAB tuner (not actually Pure - whatever their name was before) in the loft as well, but instead I use a Pure Bug tuner because it can record onto SD cards - and then I listen to the shows I record during the week at work 🙂
They were called Videologic.
[url= http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/internet_radio/wi-fi_internet_radios.php ]Digital Radio Tech[/url]
Here might give you an idea.
They were called Videologic.
yes - although, being a radio tuner, it doesn't do any video - where is the logic in that?
maybe that is why they changed their name?