Product Description
From the world leaders in DAB radio comes Siesta ? an affordable and stylish way to wake up to the choice and quality of DAB digital radio. Siesta is available in black, silver or charcoal and whatever finish you choose you can be sure it has been custom engineered with the environment in mind.
If you haven?t experienced DAB digital radio yet, you?re in for a treat. Select stations by name; check out news, results, track titles and more on the scrolling text display; tune at the touch of a button; and listen in crisp, clear digital-quality sound. And there?s more listening choice on DAB too, in many areas up to twice as many stations compared with FM.
Siesta is a member of our EcoPlus? product family, designed to minimise environmental impact, with standby power consumption of less than 1W, packaging and documentation printed on recycled materials, and careful attention paid to the sustainability of all components.
All EcoPlus products are designed and manufactured to minimise their environmental impact, with:
Reduced power consumption
Use of materials from recycled and sustainable sources
Optimum packaging size for transport efficiency
Selection of components with minimised environmental impact
Siesta boasts a large auto-dimming display, multiple alarms, an easy-to-find snooze button and PURE?s Intellitext®. It even includes FM with RDS for local stations and radio reception in remote areas.
Customer Reviews:
Great Little Performer!.......2008-01-16
I was fedup when my favourite DJ on 6music was relegated to the grave-yard shift so decided I needed a DAB for the bedroom. I'd already got a Pure DAB in kitchen so know that quaity is good.
1st impression was, "It's so small!" [the Siesta was replacing a Multi-band Communications Receiver.] "it's gonna sound tinny"
Needn't have worried, sound is fab from such a little box.
Display is exactly right, I use reading glasses but this is easy to read at night without. Auto-dimming works fine.
3 alarm modes, weekdays[mon-fri],weekends and every day.
Time setting is automatic, from DAB.
The sleep setting is a doddle too, from 15 to 90mins in 15 minute sections.
Here's a clever trick though, if I go to sleep with Gideon Coe on DAB I wake up to Radio4 Today prog! You can asign either DAB or FM on the alarm so you don't have to wake up with same station.
All in all, a great little radio. I love it!
Lovely little device.......2008-01-09
Having had one of the original PURE DAB radios for several years now, I was pleasantly suprised to get the same quality of sound and ease of use that this clock radio provides.
The set-up was easy and the options are more than sufficient for a bedside radio-alarm.
I happily recommend you buying this item.
A compact stylish DAB alarm clock.......2008-01-09
I originally bought the iDock by Pure as an alarm/DAB/ipod dock which is a good idea on paper but not so good in practice. The sound quality just wasn't good enough for a ipod dock and the unit was not exactly cheap. So I returned it and bought the Siesta instead. Despite being half the price and only having one speaker this has pretty similar sound quality to the iDock which excels at speech i.e. radio four et al but don't expect to use it for house parties or impressing audiophiles. That said I do find my self listening to it quite a lot.
Good points
- pleasant sound particularly good for speech but not obviously a hifi replacement
- automatic set up: just plug it in, give it a minute and you are up and running
- very simple to use in fact you can ignore the manual
- DAB is well implemented and gives you lots to play with (it is great to come into a programme half way and see on the screen what it is all about)
- a USB port means this is future proof so no need to worry when DAB changes
- it is environmentally friendly using low power standby and recycled materials
- the display is light sensitive and dims nicely when you turn off the lights
- it is a really good looking, compact alarm clock that is the best looking I have seen
- alarm functions are good but...
Bad points
- ...you can't set the station you want to wake up to. This means if you are listening to say Radio 3 in the evening but like to wake up to Radio 4 you need to remember to set the station. Whilst this isn't going to be a problem for most people it is frustrating not to have this option. However the unit can be upgraded by usb so if you do buy one please contact Pure and ask them to issue an update.
In my opinion this is a great DAB alarm clock at a reasonable price. Having listened to quite a few Pure radios I recommend the Siesta over the iDock or the single speaker models as it has a very similar sound, smaller size and more reasonable price tag.
Great digital alarm clock.......2008-01-02
It's so easy to use, the instructions are easy and it works really well. You just plug it in, press select a couple of times and the time will automatically set. Instead of getting woken up in the morning with an annoying beep I get woken up with the good digital radio. It's easy to change radio station and it shows you the name of the radio station and you still have FM radio. The signals good and the stations are great!
GOOD LOOKER BUT PROBLEM WITH THE LIGHT.......2008-01-02
This is a recent acquisition as I was looking for a DAB clock radio for the bedroom. The Siesta is reasonably compact and, as usual for Pure, looks the part.
However, after only a couple of days I appear to have a problem with the auto-dimming on my unit. The first couple of days it was really good at night, although the numbers weren't the easiest to see the overall 'glow' was quite dim and very much to my liking; recently the unit doesn't appear to dim at night, emitting quite a strong light the reaches across the whole bedroom! I thought I'd got over this problem (expercienced with other clock radios) by getting the Siesta; now it appears I may have a faulty unit and I will have to take this up with the manufacturer. Not a good start. It amazes me why manufacturers cannot address this basic requirement - why not install a dial so that people can adjust the night-light to their own preference (as in a car dash) - such a simple solution!
Other than that the sound quality is pretty good and the reception in my area is excellent. I would probably have given the Siesta 4 (the instructions can appear a little complicated to give it 5) but for the fact I may have a faulty unit.
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Customer Reviews:
Simple and Great.......2007-12-10
I only received this radio/clock this morning so my review may be slightly premature! However, I shall do my best.
The radio is incredibly easy to set up. You don't need to tune anything or even put the time in as it does it all its self. This is the first digital radio i've had the honour of owning and already I love the difference and selection that digital radio offers.
The design of the clock radio is good. Very pleasing to the eye. The display screen is clear although not huge. Whilst listening in digital mode scrolling text runs along the bottom of the screen telling you who your listening to or what track is being played. I can imagine this being quite handy!
The only thing i'd say it misses is a light feature but thats asking a bit since all round it seems great and a bed side light isn't the hardest thing to get hold of!
The reason i've given this product 4 instead of a 5 star rating is cause i don't think i could considering i've only owned it for 12 hours!
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