DAB delight: digital radios under £20, plus top big brand deals

sazzywoo

get a grip guys, no one is forcing you to buy anything. just because it's called 'grabbit' you won't get into trouble or anything if you decide not to 'grabbit'.

heth

barak wrote: »

Be careful if you want a battery powered DAB radio as they are much more power hungry than AM/FM radios, owing to the need to decode the digital signal before producing any audio. This also causes a delay, so that for instance the BBC's 'pips' are no longer accurate.

Absolutely - this is a point I haven't seen publicised. I bought a Pure a couple of years ago to use in the bathroom (half an hour a day of the Today program) & the garden (in summer). As the batteries cost about £8 per set I bought rechargeable batteries for it (about £20) but found that even with a full charge it wouldn't go through the week, ie it ran out of steam after only a couple of hours. It was also difficult to get it loud enough to hear in the shower. Thankfully it then went wrong so I got my money back - but I lost out on the rechargeable batteries I'd bought, plus the AM only radio I'd chopped in.

pioneer31

royalsteve wrote: »

the chances of it happening in that timeframe are:-
a) no chance
b) fat chance
c) f all chance

and your prediction is based on........?

pioneer31

royalsteve wrote: »

it amazes me that people go all techie on this.....who cares about the bit rate is lower on DAB - it works perfectly for me - i listen to the football commentary on the local bbc fm station, bbc berkshire - fm reception (yes far superior bitrate-who cares) is hissy, crackly and sometimes i cant tune in to it on my roberts radio, but of course its better quality, yeh but not if i cant tune in is it dur!!....but with dab (yes lower quality) - i get perfect commentary...so for me DAB wins hands down!

i mean what would you prefer a porsche that breaks down every 10 yards (FM) or a trusty vauxhall vectra that never breaks down (DAB)?

mmm, but we don't all listen to football commentary. Some of us would like to Stereo music, that sounds at least as good as any old FM radio.

gillianandterry

Does any DAB have MW as the radio i have don't pick it up very good

Gondo_2

Graeme_r wrote: »

Warning Philips Sports Gear Radio with 1GB MP3 Player
You can only charge the internal battery via a USB port on a PC unless you buy a mains adapter with a 5V USB out port on it.

There is no internal battery - it uses alkalines or rechargeables and does not charge batteries.

Both models ... When I did a full search or local to try and search for the full range of stations, the strength went down to zero and no music was played. The Graphical Eq on the mp3 player muted the already low volume even more for some of he presets

No problems with mine and it will pick up signals where my Bug Too struggles

and the display was very poor. Greyish white text on a grey background.

Black text on a white / light grey background. Are you sure you've bought a Phillips Sports Gear Radio?????