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DAB Digital Radio: most popular sets

What DAB Digital Radio sets are selling the best?
This is the best-selling list from Amazon.co.uk, updated hourly - with user reviews.

1 Pure One DAB/FM Portable Radio - Black
Manufacturer: Pure
Model: VL-60912
Average rating: 5/5 (29 votes)
Current price: £43.89 - buy
Latest review: Dab radio and FM radio. It's not overloaded with functions, is quite lightweight, but does a good job at playing the music. You won't get thunderous bass, but you get a well-balanced sound with enough bass and high end for a very decent sound. Bear in mind that this unit's battery is £28 - half the price of the radio itself. I would probably think more about portability and batteries next time I purchase a DAB radio. If you don't need the battery/portable aspect, great. If it's worth radio cost plus battery cost, then I'm not quite as certain. Overall, it is a very nice unit - just wish the battery was cheaper. 4/5

2 Pure PocketDAB 1500 Personal Rechargeable DAB/FM Digital Radio
Manufacturer: Pure
Model: VL-60916
Average rating: 4/5 (27 votes)
Current price: £64.20 - buy
Latest review: Yes it looks great, and it worked fairly well for a while, although recpetion is far from perfect, then..... The LP37 chargepack failed(only 3 months old). OK said pure, we will send you another. They lied, and never did. Asked again. They said one would be sent as soon as one was in stock. A month later, no battery. This was despite having stock you could buy. Obviously they fail a LOT! Do not trust the battery technology, its poor. As is the rubbish service you get from Pure. Its a case of got your money, now s*d off. Worst most uncaring customer support ever. They refuse to answer emails or letters. There are other DAB radios with more relaible technology, get one of them. 1/5

3 PURE VL-60907UK Siesta, Black DAB Digital Clock Radio
Manufacturer: Pure
Model: VL-60907UK
Average rating: 4/5 (30 votes)
Current price: £42.98 - buy
Latest review: Fantastic sound from such a small package. So easy to set up and great standard features - multi alarms, programmable for days of the week, preset sound levels etc. etc. Well worth paying a bit extra over all those other run-of-the-mill clock radios with their poor sound quality and lack of features. I bought one after reading so many good reviews and they were all spot on. Well done PURE. 5/5

4 Pure Digital EVOKE1XT MARSHALL DAB Radio Black
Manufacturer: PURE
Model: EVOKE1XT
Average rating: 5/5 (4 votes)
Current price: £83.29 - buy
Latest review: The sound quality on this product is excellent, it's incredible the quality this little unit provides and by adding the additional speaker the quality just gets better! Definately worth every penny, so good i even bought a second one for the bedroom, brilliant design and very street cred!! 5/5

5 Pure One DAB/FM Portable Radio - White
Manufacturer: Pure
Model: VL-60911
Average rating: 5/5 (23 votes)
Current price: £43.99 - buy
Latest review: I've had my One in my kitchen for about 7 months now and am very happy with it. It looks neat, the signal is strong, nice full-bodied sound in both FM and DAB modes. I find the buttons/dial combination quite intuitive, the dial just changes its function to suit the context, rather like the the select/reject buttons on a mobile phone. Just press the button and it switches on/off quickly, no need for fiddling about when you're short of time. Excellent value for money. 5/5

6 Intempo Digital TRS-01S Silver DAB Transistor Radio
Manufacturer: Intempo
Model: TRS 01S
Average rating: 4/5 (4 votes)
Current price: £39.87 - buy
Latest review: Bought one as a Christmas present for my husband. He is using it every day and finds it very easy to use. The radio has a nice design and is lightweight. Easy to operate and switch between DAB and FM. Will recomend. 4/5

7 Intempo Digital TRS-01Bk Glossy Black DAB Transistor Radio
Manufacturer: Intempo
Model: TRS-01Bk
Average rating: 3/5 (15 votes)
Current price: £39.94 - buy
Latest review: Very disappointed with this DAB. Like others, i will be returning this for the PURE ONE DAB - which for £10- £15 more seems a much better piece of equipment.. 2/5

8 Pure EVOKE-2XT, Luxury DAB/FM Portable Radio with Alarm - Maple
Manufacturer: Pure Digital
Model: VL-60952
Average rating: 4/5 (17 votes)
Current price: £74.92 - buy
Latest review: Excellent sound quality,v/good tone control. Easy to tune and set up.Pleasure to listen to. Bought with recharge battery pack,works well. Was able to pick up 14 No 90- 100% reception Dab stations in North Dorset using radio ariel. Tried TV ariel was worse. Would need to buy Dab ariel to get more stations. Very slight grumble, instruction book says that I have a sleep timer for radio to turn off in 15, 30 mins etc,have not got this! Other timers work well. Argee with other writer that screen display is bright for bedroom even on lowest setting.Ended up draping piece of material accross radio front. 5/5

9 PURE EVOKE-1S (cherry) Luxury portable DAB digital & FM radio
Manufacturer: Pure
Model: VL-60885
Average rating: 5/5 (4 votes)
Current price: £75.99 - buy
Latest review: This is a great little radio! First it looks fantastic (every one who's seen it likes it), feels exteremly well made and most importantly sounds excellent. It is of course possible to buy the additional speaker for this if you want to get a stereo sound but personally I haven't bothered. The quality and volume of the sound as it is is excellent and one of the radio's key features is how neat it looks on it's own. The radio can be powered by AC or a separately available rechargeable battery and can receive Digital or FM broadcasts. It also has a line in socket (for plugging an ipod/MP3 player into) and a line out socket for plugging into a hi-fi as well as a headphone socket. There's also more features on it than I had expected e.g., various display options you can get when in digital mode. I'd read up quite a bit on digital before I plumped for this and what I'd read had stalled me a bit. First that, surprisingly, the digital broadcast was supposed to be of lesser quality than a normal FM broadcast (if you know about bitrates then FM is equivalent to about 192kbps whereas digital is usually at best 128kbps). The other more worrying thing was that although digital radio has been pushed heavily of late, in fact the UK is out on a limb a bit in that we are using an old digital format (DAB) and most of the rest of the world have gone with the newer DAB+ format which allows a higher broadcasting quality. This may not sound too much of a problem but, yes, you've guessed it, the current DAB radios won't be able to pick up DAB+! It's not clear yet though when the government will decide when we go with the new format, considering how many people have now bought radios on the old format!! I can however still very much recommend that you buy one of these despite the points above because 1.) to me the DAB audio still sounds better than the FM audio (and I'm fussy about these things) and 2.) the digital formats aren't likely to change for some time and until they do you'll enjoy a very good radio! 5/5

10 Pure Evoke 1XT DAB Digital Radio - Maple
Manufacturer: Pure Digital
Model: EVOKE-1XT
Average rating: 4/5 (11 votes)
Current price: £59.90 - buy
Latest review: I bought this radio 2 weeks ago and I am very happy with it. Firstly I think is very well priced and looks almost as good as the £200 models ( that can be a bit too small ). Secondly the maple finish looks stilish and makes any room look good. The sound is a good as it can get with digital radio and can fill a big room without distorsion. You can program it to wake you up in the morning with your favorite station ( has 2 types of wake up mode weekdays and weekends ) , the brightness settings can be adjusted to night time. The power sourse looks cheap and ugly so I invested £25 on a Pure VL-60924 ChargePAK E1 battery which are long lasting rechargable and you do not need to take them out as they recharge from the power supply. In summary this is the best digital radio for under £100 with a classic look. 5/5

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