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Stylish and well built. Easy to tune and programme. Sound - excellent/outstanding - amazingly clear and crisp. Buy one! However, having read other reviews I wouldn't want to use it with batteries or the rechargeable power pack (although I haven't tried this).

Brilliant sound quality, very loud, very clear. Can also plug in iPod & Airtunes.

Get one!

My first Evoke 2XT did develop a fault after 2 months and I had it replaced. The fault was a rather strange one. The sleep timer stopped working. This is strange because, according to the Pure Technical helpline this radio does not have the sleeptimer fitted. I had been using this facility for months so told the "technical help person" that mine had this facility. She seemed not to accept my statement. I pointed out that it was even in my operation manual. Further enquiries offered the answer that "maybe" it had been fitted to a few. When my replacement arrived this also had the sleep timer fitted. The replacement was the eco model.
The moral of the story seems that the British designers and the actual manufacturers in China are not necessarily in step.
It is a great radio, certainly the best I have ever tried.

My father recently bought the Pure Evoke 2XT and have been really pleased with it, super sound quality, build quality and very easy to use. Can find and store stations well.

The traditional look makes it even better.

Highly recommended.

Aa excellent radio for sound quality, build quality, finish and style. Plug it into an expensive hifi amplifier and also an external DAB aerial and listen to the sound it can produce over the already stand alone mini hifi quality excellent sound it produces.

So why mark it down when sounding like it can't be faulted? Well, Pure state that this is a portable radio that can be taken anywhere. True you can put six normal battery cells in it but these will cost you a small fortune to run it on these. However, Pure do recommend that you use the ChargePAK to run it on battery power to make it truly portable. But, here's the "Catch 22" as the ChargePAK rechargeable battery is almost unobtainable and as rare as rocking horse manure. Even Pure are refusing to accept orders for them as they don't have any in stock or any idea if there will be any stock available at any time. They now don't even bother answering email enquiries for the ChargePAK rechargeable batteries. A very poor state of affairs if you're wanting the radio to be fully portable.

So an excellent radio spoiled by not having an essential bespoke accessory available in stock.