DAB radio was a stuff that I never dreamt of getting until when a friend recommended that to me some few months ago. Well I was strongly in doubt of the radio because of the shape that I never liked and the weight was too light for a radio. Well the DAB radio arrived some few years ago, which ... Read review
With its unique design and anodised aluminium fascia, the CHRONOS DAB digital clock radio ... more
adds a dash of style to any bedside. And with DAB digital radio, there?s a much wider choice of stations to wake up to ? as well as a simple alarm tone if that?s ...
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From PURE, the world leaders in digital radio, comes a combined DAB digital clock radio ... more
and iPod docking system which is perfect for the bedroom, study, or wherever your iPod likes to rest. Based on the best-selling Chronos CD, Chronos iDock combines all the choice, features and ease of use of DAB digital radio with the convenience of iPod docking. Enjoy your music collection in high quality stereo sound, recharge your iPod and catch up on the latest music, sports news and debate on DAB. Chronos iDock has a wealth of bedside alarm functions including four independent alarms, each of which can be set for weekdays only, weekends only or as a one-off. And you can choose to wake to DAB digital radio, FM, a simple tone alarm or even your iPod.
* Frequency ranges: Band III 174-240 MHz, FM 87.5-108 MHz. * CD Player: CD-R and CD-RW ... more
playback. Support for CD Text and 20 track audio CD playlist. Multiple playback modes (repeat, shuffle, etc). MP3/WMA playback, including support for ID3 tags. * Speakers: Two 3" x 1.5" custom-wound oval drive units. * Input connectors: 9V DC power adaptor socket (230V supplied). 3.5mm Line-in for auxiliary devices. * Output connectors: 3.5mm stereo output for headphones. * Controls: Power on/standby, sleep, source, tune/select, menu, alarm, info, presets, volume, play/pause, stop, fast forward, rewind and snooze. * Remote: Infrared remote control * Presets: 30 combined DAB and FM presets in a combined list. * LCD display: LCD display with 16 x 2 characters, plus additional function icons (volume, time, alarms, signalstrength, source selected, repeat and shuffle) and large clock. Features adjustable backlight (active and standby mode) with auto-dimmer. * Mains power supply: 230V AC to 9V DC external power adapter. * Power consumption: In standby 0.81W (industry average 5.72W); in operation 4.1W (industry average 7.21W). * Aerial: Wire aerial attached. Â
* Listen or wake to your iPod whilst it charges. * Four independent alarms, with wake to ... more
iPod, tone, DAB or FM. * Light sensor adjusts the display brightness to suit the ambient light in your room. * Browse and play tracks stored on your iPod via remote control. * Connect an iPod shuffle or other device to the auxiliary input and play directly through the stereo speakers. * Pause and control DAB or FM scrolling text. * RDS support for station name display on FM and RDS scrolling text. * 30 station presets (DAB or FM). * 3.5mm stereo headphone socket. Â
Advantages: nice triangle design with quality sound. Disadvantages: lack of depth.
DAB radio was a stuff that I never dreamt of getting until when a friend recommended that to me some few months ago. Well I was strongly in doubt of the radio because of the shape that I never liked and the weight was too light for a radio. Well the DAB radio arrived some few years ago, which is capable of giving more than 50 local stations.
EASE OF USE.
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Well the DAB radio is a device that does ... ...to use and Manipulate. But the most important thing about the DAB radio is that it carries waves along with date and time information accurately and this has helped me in different occasions for accountability. It automatically scans the airwave for the date and time to come in a more accurate form and comfortably displays both features on the nice blue screen. Although that most of the in formations brought by the DAB does appear in a blue screen, ... more
DAB radio was a stuff that I never dreamt of getting until when a friend recommended that to me some few months ago. Well I was strongly in doubt of the radio because of the shape that I never liked and the weight was too light for a radio. Well the DAB radio arrived some few years ago, which is capable of giving more than 50 local stations.
EASE OF USE. ---------------------- Well the DAB radio is a device that does not give problems in using because it is very easy to use and Manipulate. But the most important thing about the DAB radio is that it carries waves along with date and time information accurately and this has helped me in different occasions for accountability. It automatically scans the airwave for the date and time to come in a more accurate form and comfortably displays both features on the nice blue screen. Although that most of the in formations brought by the DAB does appear in a blue screen, it is far very bright for you to see it clearly. There are two brightness settings about the radio and they are so bright to the extent of giving bright light in the dark. So when put into the two bright light, it fills the whole space with blue beautiful bright light.
THE DEVICE. --------------------- The major function of the radio is to bring about clear signal and it also detects the station name. It has very brilliant sound quality although some times, there are tendencies that it might receive poor signal. You equally have the abilities to scroll text below the stations name including sports, news headline and song title equally. The chrono is very fantastic but one thing, it does not have FM reception and that I don't like. You can get the signals by setting to auto tune.
SOUND PERFOMANCES. ------------------------------------ The digital chrono is a sound creator and it does have steady reception unlike in some radio device that does not have their sound and signals steady. Well I am not surprised about the sound quality since it was created by band and olufsen one of the most prominent sound engineers in technology. Well the chrono DAB radio does not produce bass for music rather a stereo can do it for you. But the chrono has it right in speeches.
OTHER FEATURES. ---------------------------- The chromo has other nice features like the time display and the alarm. You can make the alarm to go off at various times and it can also differentiate between weekends and Weekdays with a very loud sound and it also have a large snooze button, which is located at the top of the machine. What I like most is the blue light display and when increases, brings about the beautiful blue bright colour.
VERDICT -------------- Well this device currently at about £59.20, which I bought it. But if you are looking for a nice alarm that will wake you up from the bed with a loud sound, this is the better one. But the price was too much for just alarm stuff but I forgot that it talks as well.
I was quite quick to embrace the arrival of DAB radio a few years ago and then living in London, it gave me a choice of around sixty stations. At that time I had an am/fm clock radio and a separate DAB radio. Neither could properly perform the role of the other. Luckily there are now several DAB clock radios on the market and I opted for the Chronos by arguably the best manufacturer of DAB equipment, Pure.
What it looks like
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... ...half of its area is the speaker. The other half are the buttons used to control and use the unit. The radio is around 70mm tall and the front of the unit houses the display. Using it
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DAB radio waves carry date and time information and this is very useful indeed for the Chronos. The first time you plug it in, it automatically scans the airwaves for the date and time and duly displays both on its blue screen. On the subject of the screen, ...
Future77 08.05.2007 (04.05.2007)
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Advantages: Small, sleek, good alarm fucntions. Disadvantages: Sound quality could be better at high volumes.
I got this as a gift a year or so back, as I wanted a DAB radio to walk me up in the morning (to Planet Rock). This arrived in my stocking, and was exactly what I was looking for. It is a triangle shape, so it looks cool and sits on your bedside table nicely. It is handy here as the screen is constantly lit up even when off so you cans see the time, it has two brightness settings as well so you can have it to your taste but in all honesty the brighter ... ...a number of settings, primarily alarm settings as that is what it is designed for, so you can set a daily alarm, weekday alarm and weekend alarm which is very handy. It has all of the usual stuff like snooze buttons as well, so you can lay in bed for as long as possible before getting to to rush to get to where you need to be. As for sound quality, it is good enough for it's job, which is waking you up or just listening to the football or some casual ...
Tsportmat 26.09.2009
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Advantages: very easy to set up Disadvantages: setting alarm a bit fiddly because of 4 alarm settings
This DAB radio is very stylish and looks great anywhere. The modern shape and stylish chrome colour make it very modern in look. You can plug it in and it sets the time and radio programmes instantly.Then you can easily change channels and it tells you the channel and even what track is playing. In our area there are 49 digital channels including all the local radio channels. You can only listen to digital radio but as all programmes you could want ... ...anything else.The only thing we found fiddly was setting the alarm because of the number of alarms available. You can wake to either radio or an alarm.There also also snooze and sleep settings so the radio will switch itself off.Once you had decided whether you wanted weekday, weekend or one off settings it became easier. We bought ours from eAtay for £64 and I must say it was very easy.The website was easy to use and ordering easy. Once I had placed ...
Pambur 22.12.2006 (25.12.2006)
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Advantages: good styling; auto clock setting; auto channel search Disadvantages: difficult instructions; unreliability; poor customer service
...my previous purchase of a Pure product, the instructions were difficult to follow and setting the alarm never leaves me confident that it will operate as I intended!
Setting clock and finding stations was easy. Sound quality OK for my purposes - I only want speech programmes - but unit vibrates at anything other than low volume.
Left the unit on for 10 minutes - sound then disappeared and substituted by loud whistling noise. Eventually found that ... ...the Pure service line - good that they dont use an exploitative 0870 number - but "no technician available"! Nobody phoned back - exactly my experience when I had to contact them six weeks ago with a defective Pure product. Customer service clearly not a priority for this company. ...
bonzo26 09.03.2007
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