Tradescanthia Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 I have a Panasonic AM/FM plus CD player and I bought a Digital Radio tuner for it. Result - Brilliant. Tuner cost around £30 including antenna. Stations open and close all the time so you retune regularly. More choice of music/channels so I dont have to listen to the X Factor/ Beyonce/Boyband rubbish played by Radio Hallam and Co. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagel Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 My Bold as my post above wi fi radio, you can get these cheaper. http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=wi+fi+radio&x=17&y=18 Pure Evoke Flow is a good choice Yes, you can get cheaper, but you can't get better than the Pure Avanti for sound quality. People on Sheffield Forum always want the cheapest rather than the best, so I suppose your recommendations are more in keeping with the forum ethos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mafya Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 I have a PURE ONE mi dab/FM radio, cost £24 from Asda and I bought the charge pack from Argos for £11 on offer which gives me 18hrs play on a charge. I have dropped it a couple of times but it is still in one piece and does the job for me and the sound quality is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm06 Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Have you considered getting a personal aux speaker and putting it in your laptop/computer, you'd eliminate the reception, and you'd have the choice of thousands of stations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafodil Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Thanks everyone plenty of advice and suggestions there I will go through them and look for a solution . The Wi Fi one seems interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverknight Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 For readers interested in which radio stations you may receive on DAB radios: BBC National Stations: Radio 1 - Radio 1 Extra - Radio 2 - Radio 3 - Radio 4 -Radio 4 Extra Radio 5 Live - Radio 5 Sport - Radio 6 Music- Asian Network - World service Commercial National Stations: Absolute - Absolute 80’s - Absolute 90’s - Absolute Extra BFBS - Classic Fm -Jazz - Premier Christian Smooth Radio UK - Smooth 70’s - Talksport - Planet Rock -UCB UK Christian DAB Radio Stations on Yorkshire DAB Multiplex Capital (Yorkshire) -Choice- Heart -LBC - Real Radio Yorkshire -Real Radio XS Yorkshire Radio - UCB Gospel - UCB Inspirational - XFM Stations on South Yorkshire DAB Multiplex Absolute Classic Rock - Absolute 60’s - BBC Radio Sheffield -Gold - Heat - Kerrang Kiss - Magic (SY version) - Hallam -Trax Information Correct as at June 2012 - Note that the SY DAB multiplex has a more limited coverage area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinfoilhat Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 I wonder if it is one of the DAB radios like an ipod but just for radio? If so, I have had a couple and they don't work very well. DAB radios are really good. But they need the aerial taped to a wall for good signal. The personal ones like ipods are not good in my experience, though I always want them to be. For personal radios analogue signal is better. In the house portable DAB is better, and you can get more stations. I would take it back. You could down load podcasts of radio programmes onto an ipod or equivalent to have the radio on whilst gardening. I found that is you get headphones with a gold plate jack plug you get a far better signal on a personal dab radio. But its still a struggle compared with one with a proper arial. That said I wouldn't swap it for a standard one. Hallam, capital and radio is all I can get in the kitchen. I'd go mad ! No 5live sports extra or absolute 90s ? No thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafodil Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 I found that is you get headphones with a gold plate jack plug you get a far better signal on a personal dab radio. But its still a struggle compared with one with a proper arial. That said I wouldn't swap it for a standard one. Hallam, capital and radio is all I can get in the kitchen. I'd go mad ! No 5live sports extra or absolute 90s ? No thanks ! A gold plated jack plug ! Would it be worth while trying expensive ear phones in that case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinfoilhat Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 A gold plated jack plug ! Would it be worth while trying expensive ear phones in that case. Don't know, I doubt it though. My headphones, which are generally poor on everything else but give a good signal came from poundland. The previous pair, which I lost came from tx maxx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffguy58 Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 MY BOLD If you live in Sheffield you will only get radio station specific to Sheffield with DAB, you will not be able to get local station outside of Sheffield ie Radio Leeds etc which you might get on fm radio dab radio are no good i cant get yorkshire radio or radio leeds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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