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DABtastic

Advantages: Cheap DAB upgrade
Disadvantages: Not everyone can get a signal

This was sold in places like Comets and Currys a few years back. I bought it to enable me to be able to listen to digital audio broadcast (DAB) radio through my hi-fi before i acquired my Pure Evoke 1xt. It cost in the region of £70 at that time. It is ...

wildtinsey 05.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Matsui DA-1

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DAB tuner - BAD move or better?!

Advantages: Possibilty to get huge improvement in sound quality
Disadvantages: May need a proper aerial. May not work in your house.

In the interests of disclosure, I used to sell these products. What is this little beauty, you may ask? Well it's a DAB (Digital Audio Broadcast) tuner. It will also receive conventional AM and FM (until the switch off (in the UK, at least) starts next ...

NomisG 01.10.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Cambridge Audio AZUR 640T

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Basic entry level 'seperate' for integration with your hi-fi

Advantages: Good performance given restrictions of DAB format
Disadvantages: Silver (only)

The Acoustic Solutions SP111 is an entry level DAB ‘Separate’ tuner primarily intended for building into an existing Hi-Fi or home cinema setup. Why an existing system? - quite simply because if you were starting from scratch you’d probably begin with a ...

dobieg 14.11.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Acoustic Solutions SP 111

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Sorry I bought it!

Advantages: Fairly compact. AM/FM & DAB.
Disadvantages: Very time consuming to set up. Difficult to select programmes. Very slow to respond - "Please wait"

I bought my tuner on Ebay. "Never been used" The set takes ages to tune in. You seem to have to keep it powered on standby all the time, otherwise the clock setting takes ages.When you have preset all the DAB stations you want, you would have to kee ...

HuttonFrank 02.03.2012 · Read full review
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Review of Onkyo T405DAB

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Do NOT Buy

Advantages: Smaller than some dab radios
Disadvantages: awful reception

I found that once I had put this radio in it slowly seemed to loose reception of many stations. I tried moving the ariel round with no luck and now have ended up having to just listen to the very few stations I can. DAB readios advertise great reception a ...

tingo666 16.09.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Matsui DA-1

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