Customer Reviews:
Great DAB Radio.......2007-10-04
I bought a Goodmans DAB radio but the thing never worked properly - popping and chuffing all the time because it just couldn't pick up enough signal. Ordered a Pure Evoke 2 and have now thrown Goodmans away. The Evoke 2 is great. Super clean signal and superb sound for such a small box. Nice clear layout and high quality buttons and knobs. I like the extra sockets on the back - though I have not plugged an extra speaker in yet. I have not experienced any of the problems reported by others. Am I lucky or have Pure sorted the bugs out? I have a Pure Chronos too, which is also excellent, and the reason I bought the Evoke 2. I think Pure equipment is well designed and built.
Faulty volume control.......2007-01-06
Very interested to read other reviews related to faulty volume control. I bought this radio as a Christmas present for my better half who soon discovered that the volume would not turn right down. I took it straight back to the supplier for a full refund. My advice, after my own experience and after reading of same problem from other reviews is don't buy this model.
Problems with this model.......2006-02-15
I received my DAB Pure Evoke 2 this week and also had the same problem as the other reviewers who bought this. I cannot turn the volume down, when I do the sound completely cuts out, even with the volume full up sound is awful. (I thought this was a one off problem, and may have received a random dodgy one from the batch), but after reading other reviews it seems a common problem with this make /model. I have now returned radio and will not be replacing it with the same make.
Volume Control.......2006-02-10
I researched the market and ended up buying the Evoke 2. Sound and no. of stations is first class but I am now having the same volume related problems as the person from Eastleigh. I bought it in July and it started happening a month or so ago. I cannot turn the volume down to an acceptable level for when I am going to be sitting within 10 feet of it. I contacted PURE and they said to send it back and get a replacement but I see that the other person had the same problems with the replacement. I will send it back and see what happens.
disappointed.......2005-11-21
Was delighted to receive my digital radio as a present. It looks good and the sound is excellent.But I had to return my radio due to problems with the volume control and am now having the same trouble with the replacement radio-I cannot turn the volume down.
Customer Reviews:
Finaly sleeping in the dark!.......2008-01-15
I thought it would be impossible to find, but Pure Chronos II is the one! You can choose manual or auto dimmer and it really works! The alarm is so easy to set up (and you can set up up to 4 different ones - weekday/weekend/one off...). You don't have to be woken up by the same station you listened last time or your second half was woken up by. You can choose DAB or FM (should you be in a very bad DAB reception area like I am!). Very stylish and there is an easy to access input for earphones too. It is a bit expensive but well worth it. A must have.
Pure Chronos II.......2008-01-11
A well specified good quality easy to use unit at a reasonable price best describes the Chronos II.
Setup is very quick with an easy to follow user manual.
Sound quality is good for a unit of this size and the addition of an FM band is handy in areas of poor / intermittent DAB signal.
This unit is also one of the few DAB radios to be upgradeable to DAB+ so its ready for the future.
The only drawback with this unit is that it has no provision for battery operation but then it is intended as a bedside radio alarm clock not a portable . I am very pleased with the unit and would recommend.
A Great Little Alarm Clock.......2008-01-03
I received the Chronos II for Christmas as a replacement for my old AM/FM radio alarm-clock, and have been extremely impressed with the product.
THE PROS:
- The triangular "Toblerone" shape means the clock radio occupies the minimum amount of space on a bedside table. The buttons are clear and easy to find, and build quality is also very good.
- The DAB reception is crystal clear and, unlike my old FM radio, it does not "drift" between radio stations over time.
- For a small clock radio, the sound quality is good (however it is not a replacement for a HiFi system).
- The clock always shows the correct time, as it automatically syncs with the time broadcast via DAB.
- You can set four different alarms with individual settings, including weekdays-only, weekends-only, etc. No more waking up at 6am on a Saturday!!
- It has an adjustable Snooze timer (why are snooze timers normally 9 minutes?)
- There is an automatic dimmer, plus High and Low manual settings for the display
- You can customise radio alarm volume settings
- There is a neat headphone socket tucked in the top rear corner of the unit, which avoids the need to fumble with cables around the back of the clock.
THE CONS:
- If I was being ultra-picky, the display is a little bit on the small side, meaning that it is a bit difficult to read the time from a distance (e.g. >4m).
CONCLUSION:
I think this is a great product, and I would highly recommend it if you are looking for a DAB clock radio.
Disappointed.......2007-12-18
Looks good, sounds good ... BUT ... I bought it as a bedside radio-alarm and it is a pain to use at night, especially if you are short sighted. Hard to change preset channels (six buttons to press), hard to turn it on for 30 mins in the middle of the night, nightmare to set the alarm, poor display of the time etc etc.
Have religated it to another room for daytime use and gone back to my non-DAB Sony. Sony know how to design a bedside radio-alarm. I will wait for them to produce a DAB one.
The best but not very good..........2007-12-14
I was drawn to Pure's product range because as a manufacturer they seem to value good design, and have a very pretty product range. I take my hat off to them for applying some eco-design to their range, cutting power consumption to a level that shames other manufacturers. And make no mistake, this is one of the best clock radios money can buy, but in a marketplace crowded with ghastly competitors, that's not as high an accolade as it should be. Here are some details...
The sound quality is perfectly adequate for a clock radio. If you want better, plug it into an amp; room-filling stereo is not what it's for.
The display is apparently 'improved' over the first Chronos... viewing from the front it looks great, but from above, it's inverted, and somewhere between the two it's completely invisible. For a radio designed to live on a low bedside table, that's inexcusable.
The auto-dimming feature is an excellent idea, but if I face the radio when I'm in bed, in a dark room I can feel the light in my face even with my eyes closed. It's still far too bright.
The software is much the same as any other digital radio. There are menus, you can display various information on the screen, but at the expense of the time display, which for a clock radio is a shame. Text scrolls painfully slowly across the screen. It's possible to make the radio do pretty much anything you'd want, although not always as easily or intuitively as you might hope. The bewildering number of buttons isn't conducive to controlling the radio while half asleep or when you can't see the top of it.
Other design niggles include the steps in volume level being slightly too far apart, and the 4 that looks like a 9 in big clock mode.
Pure seem to be the ones setting the standards where digital radios are concerned. It's just a shame they're not setting them very high.
Customer Reviews:
Great product,great sound.......2007-12-26
Great Product great value best model in range!!
Sound qualty second to none....even better with chargePax C6L.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent sound quality.......2007-09-17
This is an excellent radio with a superb sound quality and range of stations and very easy to use. A big improvement on the earlier Exoke 2 radio
Evoke 2 XT DAB Radio.......2006-12-28
No disappointments here, it's exactly what it says on the tin. Easy to use, crystal clear and stylish in a contemporary way. It's larger than I expected so make sure the top of your bedside cabinet is clear of clutter if the bedroom is it's final destination.
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