As this is a desktop radio and not designed to be plugged into a stereo we'll forgive it for that.īut the reason you'd really want to buy a digital radio is to listen to AM stations in digital quality, and they're the real stars here. In comparison, the Pure One Classic was a little less hyperactive in the upper register though it did suffer from a really bloated bass.
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Plus you get the addition of song and artist data as well. On these stations there is a little too much treble presence on rock and blues stations like Triple J or ABC Digg - more of a distorted shoosh sound really - that makes it sound exciting but also very fatiguing in comparison to the FM equivalent.īut, if you listen to a station like Triple M, which is blessed by a slightly higher bitrate, music sounds fine and less "squashed" than FM. The ABC has a number of stations catering to different genres but its use of a relatively low 80Kbps bitrate across the board really shows itself here. We tried a number of different radios for our tests, the Pure One Classic DAB+ connected using the line out, the 650T and the on-board FM tuner of the Sony 5500 receiver.Īs DAB+ is a compressed format based on AAC you've got to expect some give and take when it comes to sound quality, but we were surprised that the most "high brow" stations sounded the worst through the 650T. The 650T even features two different antenna ports for each section, but as most people don't have a specialised DAB+ antenna in their house the company includes a strip antenna in the box. The tuner has completely separated FM and DAB+ sections, with the digital section featuring a high-end Wolfson 8740 DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) - the same as in the DacMagic. While the 650T lacks for features it funnels its attentions in a different direction: audio quality. If this information is important to you you may instead look to a device like the Pure Sensia which includes a 5.7-inch colour screen. It lacks features like pausing and rewinding, and doesn't even have a video out which is a shame as many stations are now broadcasting cover art, weather and station IDs alongside the music signal. In comparison to the similarly-priced Sangean WFT-1D+ the Cambridge Audio is fairly light-on for features, with DAB+ reception its main selling point for metropolitan listeners. Some of the function buttons are a little obscure though as they feature symbols instead of names. The remote control is a faux-metal device which looks impressive and comes with pleasantly squishy buttons.
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