Home > Consumer Reviews > Pure EVOKE-2XT, Luxury DAB/FM Portable Radio with Alarm - Maple

Amazing bass, volume and overall quality from a small box. But if you prefer your music on FM, as I do, check the volume available. My set is the earlier Evoke 2, not the XT, and its FM is rather quiet compared to DAB. When I emailed Evoke they blamed low volume on the broadcasters. As an ex-BBC man I know this is not the explanation. If you'll only use DAB, don't hesitate - the set is splendid.

Connect to the house aerial.

unscrew the stick aerial
use an adaptor 'F screw' to coaxial female
website sells them, so do screwfix much cheaper too
and connect.

I can now pick up 50 more stations and all the london ones in deeeeeep stereoscopic quality.

Brillinat

Excellent sound quality,v/good tone control. Easy to tune and set up.Pleasure to listen to. Bought with recharge battery pack,works well. Was able to pick up 14 No 90- 100% reception Dab stations in North Dorset using radio ariel. Tried TV ariel was worse. Would need to buy Dab ariel to get more stations. Very slight grumble, instruction book says that I have a sleep timer for radio to turn off in 15, 30 mins etc,have not got this! Other timers work well. Argee with other writer that screen display is bright for bedroom even on lowest setting.Ended up draping piece of material accross radio front.

I am not sure how common this is, but the display on the one I bought stopped working after about 3 months. It remained illuminated by light (i.e. blue) but all of the white text disappeared. Nothing else was wrong with it, it could, for example, play and change channels, but as you can imagine it was thereafter unusable. Before that the only other niggle was that the light display was too bright for a bedroom. Ironically after the display stopped working, this problem remained with no way to remedy it by navigating my way to the display options! If it were not for this fault, though it would have been a good radio with a good sound.

Yes - it's another 3 star review! Such a pity too, for altogether I love this radio with it's lifelike quality sound, easy-use menu, handy (if pricy) SD card recording, and classy looks. But in common with other purchasers I have to use it plugged into the mains, so largely it's stationary, as it's fairly large to lug about to another socket! Frankly, even if I could get the Chargepaks easily I'd be doubtful about buying them, as the stories of them going on fire etc., scare the socks off me!
Still, it's a decent product otherwise, so I hope in years to come the manufacturer gets the "battery" issues sorted out for the newer versions.