DAB Radio

We've entered the world of DAB radio with this Pure Chronos II triangular shaped radio alarm.

Set up was very easy: switch it on, let it autotune, listen to the radio. Setting alarms was easy too. The nice thing is that there are four alarms that can all be set individually. At the moment we have one for weekdays, one for Saturday and one for Sunday. They can be set to different radio stations too, which means we can wake up to Five-live during the week, Radio 4 on Saturday and Planet Rock Sunday morning if we really want to do that!

You can set the clock manually or leave it to pick up the time from the DAB signal. The tone is much better than our old analogue clock radio as you'd expect. And there's a nice sleep function too. Overall it's a nice enough radio and suits us fine.

There's one drawback that's not serious. You can't tell what the volume level is when you're listening. Not a big problem, you just adjust it so it's okay. But when you set an alarm, it asks you to set the level which starts off at '10' without giving you any indication of how loud that might be. In the end it's not too bad, but I did wonder if we were going to get blown out of bed the first time it came on!

I got ours from Amazon at only £39 reduced from £70, a bit of a bargain in my opinion. now all I need to do is wait for lots more stations to come online. A little mellow jazz would be good on a Saturday morning.