PURE EVOKE-3 Luxury Portable Stereo DAB/FM Radio by Pure

PURE EVOKE-3 Portable Stereo Digital and FM Radio with EPG and Recording List Price: £199.99 Sale Price: £145.00 Used From: £79.98 Average Rating:

Reviews

the least said about this deal the better, i know it should have been a first class radio but it was not brand new on arrival. will not use this firm again ( not amazon as they were brilliant in getting my refund )

I loved this radio and made full use of its features, such as recording to SD card.etc. However it stopped working just out of warranty and we had to send it to Pure's designated repair place. It was repaired and returned for £50 but another 14 months down the line it has stopped working again. It will be a different brand for me this time. I'm very disappointed, as £200 is not cheap for a radio.

I bought this unit and quickly returned it. It wouldn't receive ANY dab channels unless I took the thing out in the garden. Ok, fair enough I thought... so I tried the FM tuner. It wouldn't even pickup radio 1 with the aerial fully extended indoors where as my desktop weather station / combined cheapo radio picks it up with the aerial fully retracted without a problem. I don't live in a poor reception area, so either I have a faulty unit which seems to be common with these or the tuner inside the thing is a piece of junk. As a radio (which it is designed to be) the thing is a useless crock. Again, thank goodness for amazons return policy. I replaced it with a £40 bush from a well known high street catalog store which works perfectly and looks very similar (minus the record function). Say no more I guess... Stay away from this one folks. Look for something else and save your precious time and money. Full marks to amazon as usual though.

EXCELLENT SOUND QUALITY, THE MRS LOVES BOPPING AROUND THE KITCHEN TO IT. REALLY HANDY WITH THE SD CARD AS SHE CAN CHOOSE WHAT MUSIC SHE WANTS TO UPLOAD. THE RADIO IS SUPERB AS IT TELLS YOU WHAT SONG AND ARTIST IS PLAYING SO NO MORE GUESSING. THOROUGHLY RECOMMENDED, WELL WORTH THE MONEY. MY ONLY CONCERN WITH THIS IS THAT WE COULD ONLY RECEIVE A SIGNAL BY THE WINDOW IN THE KITCHEN SO IT MAY BE ADVISABLE TO CHECK THAT YOU CAN RECEIVE A SIGNAL, AN OUTSIDE AERIAL MAY BE REQUIRED. DONT TRUST THE COMPUTER TO TELL IF YOU CAN GET A SIGNAL, BECAUSE IT IS NOT ALWAYS ACCURATE.

I recorded a 2 hour programme from the radio to listen to at a later date, using the SD function,. (By the way they don't give you an SD card so buy one when you order the radio). The recording set up was very easy. No problems there. However, the disappointment happened when I tried to play back my recording. If you listen for several minutes then switch off, the recording starts again at the begining when you switch back on to listen again. There is no resume function on the SD replay. Imagine that! What a let-down. You have all these 2 hour programmes recorded and each time you dip into them you have to remember where you left off and fast forward to that point. I couldn't believe that such an advanced, expensive radio would have that limitation. I only bought it so that I could record radio when I was out, and I'm not about to find where I left off each time. I will go back to my old cassette recorder. I sent the radio back for a refund. If you just want to listen and pause live radio while you answer the door, without missing anything, it is great for that!