Pure ONE Mi review Hot

The Pure One Mi is the latest addition to the ‘One’ Family, and is the cheapest and smallest portable DAB radio Pure currently produces.

Features and Performance

The plastic body is lightweight and compact, and is a little unstable in design, more so when the aerial is fully extended. 

The radio is simple to use, with well laid out and clearly marked buttons. The small LCD screen displays a choice of station information or date, but it is not backlit. There are 16 presets available, 8 for FM and 8 for DAB, but saving them is not as easy as it could be. You must first find your station, press the preset button, scroll to the preset you require, then press and hold the select button until you see ‘saved’ appear on the LCD display. 

The sound quality is acceptable, a slightly muffled top end and lacking in depth, but reasonable for such a small unit. Volume is adequate for all but the noisiest of environments. There is no tone control, and no earphone socket. 

Sensitivity is fine for strong stations on both DAB and FM but not great in our area of weak reception, with some stations interspersed with digital ‘burbling’. The One Mi is DAB+ compatible. 

For the Mi to be truly portable it requires Pure’s optional chargepak (A1) for an extra £17, which seems expensive for a budget radio, and it doesn’t take standard batteries. 

Conclusion

This is a neat, basic radio, which should be reliable given Pure’s pedigree.