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Excellent sound quality, striking styling and build.
What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision, February 2002
First digital portable’s Pure class
Smaller, lighter digital radios may be on the way, but what we have here is a first generation portable digital radio under the new Pure brand VideoLogic has introduced for its upmarket equipment. It’s stereo, incorporating a high-quality amplifier and twin full-range Audax 9cm drive units, along with 24-bit 96kHz conversion and psycho-acoustic compensation, as used in its DRX-601ES tuner, the winner of a What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision Awards in 2001. Other facilities extend to an optical RDI data output, plus optical and electrical digital outs and analogue ins and outs. These ports enable a personal CD player, for example, to be connected, the output from the radio to be recorded digitally of on a conventional tape deck, and of course let the unit be fed through your hi-fi system.
There’s even an F-type aerial input, into which a telescopic rod antenna fits for portable use.
Used in this way, the Pure is a little susceptible to signal loss, so some experimentation with positioning will be required, but once locked on it’s very good indeed - way better than any portable radio we’ve experienced to date. There’s warm, rich bass and clarity for voices, whether speaking or singing, and instruments sound surprisingly good, with a subtle-acting tone control allowing an acceptable balance between weight and crispness.
Provided you like the styling and want a classy radio you can detach from your system and use anywhere in the house, the Pure is a winner.
Excellent sound quality, striking styling and build
A superb piece of kit for the bedroom or kitchen, but its definitely first generation.
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The World's Best Digital Radio Goes Portable