22-05-2011, 07:45 AM
The radio featured at that link looks excellent and keenly priced, and it recieves FM too.
I mentioned earlier that I've got a Pure Evoke 1 DAB radio, and it sounds fine to me. The only limitations are the limited number of stations that I can receive in htis location, and the irritation babbling effect when signals break up. I do wonder whether the criticisms about DAB in comparison to similar quality AM/FM are based on objective listening on similar radios, or simply a bias against DAB. UK coverage is poor - in many areas there are no DAB signals at all. My younger son lives in Matlock, which is in a valley in Derbyshire and can't receive any DAB signals not Digital TV, but should be able to later this year when TV is due to go digital. I find it very odd in this day and age that there are any areas where TV reception is poor, because all it takes is a cheap repeater station in a high spot, which even radio amateurs have been able to instal for amateur radio use for 40 years.
The bias against AM when FM was introduce was similar to the resistence to DAB. Manufacturers added FM to radios as a selling point well before many listeners could actually receive FM. The forecasted early demise of AM when FM came in with wide coverage proved to be premature. AM-only radios continued to be produced long after FM came in. It's the lack of DAB radios in cars that will slow down its introduction, by which time, who knows - DAB may turn out like Betamax, be overtaken with something else, and go down the tubes. There seems to be little enthusiasm for it in Mainland Europe.
As to MPs players, I use my i-pod nano on the occasional long journey, such as when my younger son and I go on battlefiled tours to France, Belgium and beyond by coach. I also use it when - under sufference, we visit her sister in Essex and her insufferable Daily Mail reading sports loving numpy of a husband. He's mad about sport, hard of hearing but for reasons of vanity, won't have a hearing aid. Thus, whenever we visit them, usually twice a year, he has the TV on incessantly, has all the satellite sports channels, and flips from one to another at maximum volume impervious to the wishes of antyone else who happens to be in the room. He flips from one channel to another - golf, cricket, football, snooker, back to golf, shouting at the TV screen as though his life depended upon it. I just switch on my nano, and slap on my Bose over the ear headphones and it transports me to another world - a world in which sports of any kind, are banned and forever will be. 500 tracks played at random on 'shuffle' - 25 hours listening from a gadget that is 75mm long, 6mm thick and 50m wide. Not so long ago, that would have been science fiction! To my ears, the quality of reproduction is excellent.
David
I mentioned earlier that I've got a Pure Evoke 1 DAB radio, and it sounds fine to me. The only limitations are the limited number of stations that I can receive in htis location, and the irritation babbling effect when signals break up. I do wonder whether the criticisms about DAB in comparison to similar quality AM/FM are based on objective listening on similar radios, or simply a bias against DAB. UK coverage is poor - in many areas there are no DAB signals at all. My younger son lives in Matlock, which is in a valley in Derbyshire and can't receive any DAB signals not Digital TV, but should be able to later this year when TV is due to go digital. I find it very odd in this day and age that there are any areas where TV reception is poor, because all it takes is a cheap repeater station in a high spot, which even radio amateurs have been able to instal for amateur radio use for 40 years.
The bias against AM when FM was introduce was similar to the resistence to DAB. Manufacturers added FM to radios as a selling point well before many listeners could actually receive FM. The forecasted early demise of AM when FM came in with wide coverage proved to be premature. AM-only radios continued to be produced long after FM came in. It's the lack of DAB radios in cars that will slow down its introduction, by which time, who knows - DAB may turn out like Betamax, be overtaken with something else, and go down the tubes. There seems to be little enthusiasm for it in Mainland Europe.
As to MPs players, I use my i-pod nano on the occasional long journey, such as when my younger son and I go on battlefiled tours to France, Belgium and beyond by coach. I also use it when - under sufference, we visit her sister in Essex and her insufferable Daily Mail reading sports loving numpy of a husband. He's mad about sport, hard of hearing but for reasons of vanity, won't have a hearing aid. Thus, whenever we visit them, usually twice a year, he has the TV on incessantly, has all the satellite sports channels, and flips from one to another at maximum volume impervious to the wishes of antyone else who happens to be in the room. He flips from one channel to another - golf, cricket, football, snooker, back to golf, shouting at the TV screen as though his life depended upon it. I just switch on my nano, and slap on my Bose over the ear headphones and it transports me to another world - a world in which sports of any kind, are banned and forever will be. 500 tracks played at random on 'shuffle' - 25 hours listening from a gadget that is 75mm long, 6mm thick and 50m wide. Not so long ago, that would have been science fiction! To my ears, the quality of reproduction is excellent.
David
