http://www.radioguide.co.uk/ http://www.radioguide.co.uk/images/stories/banner252x90.jpg http://www.radioguide.co.uk/ 132-37 http://www.radioguide.co.uk/radio-review/26-wifi-network-radio/132-pure-evoke-flow-review.html I thought I would add to Phil's review here, as we have been using an Evoke Flow in the office for the past year or so. Generally its a very accomplished radio, the sound is more than reasonable for the office environment, offering bass and clarity beyond its size. Given the inclusion of WiFi, the choice of stations is vast, with favorite stations easily stored and recalled. The radio can take a little while to connect to the WiFi router when powering up, and now and again it will dropout when buffering, but this dosen't happen that often. The menu systems are a little confusing, I'm not a big fan of the touch sensitive buttons, but I don't think its any more or less confusing to use than similar radios from other brands. Personally I love a full-touchscreen interface on WiFi radios, as they offer an easier way to control the various functions, and what you are doing is much more obvious. Overall I am pretty impressed with the Evoke Flow, but for a more intuitive interface I would suggest looking at Pure's Sensia, which has a great Touchscreen. ]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:19:28 +0000 140-36 http://www.radioguide.co.uk/radio-review/25-dab-digital-radio/140-argos-value-range-dabfm-review.html I bought this on a whim as I needed a cheap DAB radio for my garage, but i truly wish I hadn't bothered. Yes I know it is cheap, and what should I expect!? Well I did expect a little more than i got. The build quality is so poor you would feel cheated if it fell out of a Christmas cracker. It is very unstable, I am always knocking it over, and the sound quality is not very good at all. The best thing about it is definitely the price, but as DAB becomes more mainstream I see that prices are falling. My advice would be to either save up and buy a better quality radio, or even buy a second hand one, but I wouldn't bother buying this one!! ]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:57:26 +0000 141-35 http://www.radioguide.co.uk/radio-review/25-dab-digital-radio/141-pure-one-mi-review.html The One Mi is a great little radio, and in many ways perfect for my needs. However, the cost of the bespoke battery pushes the whole unit into another league! Come on Pure, this should take a handful of AA batteries at most, why make portability a £20 extra?? ]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:43:45 +0000 156-33 http://www.radioguide.co.uk/radio-review/25-dab-digital-radio/156-roberts-record-r-review.html I bought one of these from John Lewis Cheadle and it was so bad that I took it back assuming it was faulty, the replacement was identical. It struggled to auto tune on DAB and FM (this is a strong signal area I can see Winter Hill out of the window and Holme Moss FM is also strong here). The process had to be repeated several times. On setting the presets it locked up freezing all the buttons including the off button, only by disconnecting the PSU and removing the batteries could it be made to work again. Both radios had more software crashes than a game of Grand Theft Auto. If you try to make a recording, using its primative 1980s ex VHS timer, don't look at the handbook as it will "time out" and throw away your efforts if you don't enter everything quickly. If it is used before the timed event and crashes, usually when changing multiplexes say BBC Radio 4 to LBC or vice versa, it will set your timer stop time to the start time resulting in a 24 hour recording! Every digital camera in the land lets you erase files, as do my cheap Mp3 players. This radio doesn't, you have to use your computer. Roberts Radios are frequently sold to the elderly, they have been a very successful "grey market" provider, what are they supposed to do when umpteen 24 hour recordings fill their SD cards, buy another card? They are hardly likely to be computer literate are they? The Roberts Radio help line seemed to know nothing about the product but it didn't stop the man trying to bluff that he did, John Lewis's help line was much better but it is a new product so they offered a replacement. I would like to thank the staff at John Lewis Cheadle for their help and the fact that they refunded the cost of the radio and SD card without question. This is a shockingly bad product, I see that there are poor reviews of it on the Amazon website and the Pure Evoke 3 seems to be unreliable as well. So it's back to the trusty old RED (Sainsbury's) DAB radio, cassette machine and time switch. Such is prog ]]> Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:33:11 +0000 156-32 http://www.radioguide.co.uk/radio-review/25-dab-digital-radio/156-roberts-record-r-review.html Excellent ]]> Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:43:34 +0000 141-30 http://www.radioguide.co.uk/radio-review/25-dab-digital-radio/141-pure-one-mi-review.html None ]]> Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:30:46 +0000 140-29 http://www.radioguide.co.uk/radio-review/25-dab-digital-radio/140-argos-value-range-dabfm-review.html None ]]> Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:19:14 +0000 132-23 http://www.radioguide.co.uk/radio-review/26-wifi-network-radio/132-pure-evoke-flow-review.html None ]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:05:38 +0000 131-22 http://www.radioguide.co.uk/radio-review/20-portable-radios/131-roberts-r9993-review.html None ]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:01:07 +0000 130-21 http://www.radioguide.co.uk/radio-review/20-portable-radios/130-eton-e1100-review.html None ]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:54:42 +0000