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

Had one for about 10 months now. Well built and very good sound quality, even when used in an internal bathroom (I live in SW London so assume DAB signal is pretty strong). Some small but annoying criticisms though:

1. The necessary charge pack battry is a rip off at £27 extra
2. When powered by battery it has a stupid double-press on button to turn radio back on (press once and it turns off again, need to press twice at carefully spaced interval)
3. No ability to have alarm cancelled at weekends so you need to remember to turn it off every Friday and bakc on Sunday night

PURE make some of the best DAB/FM radios on the market and are invariably highly rated by users/customers and the experts for good reason. This product is maintaining the high satisfaction levels of PURE users and is a pleasure to listen to.

The Evoke-2XT stereo DAB/FM radio maintains PURE's reputation for top quality products and I would say it probably has the best sound quality of any radio currently out there and is without doubt a market leader and deservedly so. The only negative remarks I could make about this product are based on its price which I think could be a bit lower. However, it has such a superb quality sound and both DAB & FM are of the highest standard you could wish for. So I would be prepared to pay the extra based on its performance. The looks may not be to everybody's taste, but who looks at a radio anyway?

I live in a very poor reception area so am not able to pick up all the DAB stations. However, the ones I can get are brilliant quality and when the weather and atmospherics are good I can even get a few extra stations that are normally not available. I have tried other DAB's and they do not come anywhere close to the quality of this beauty, I am more than pleased with this product and would buy it again without hesitation as well as recommend it to others.

If all you want or need is DAB/FM radio then you will not find better than the Evoke-2XT even if you looked from here to Timbuktu and back! Don't hesitate, order one of these today, you will be delighted with its clarity and depth of reproduction of all kinds of music and the spoken word. It's Top-Notch and deservedly gets full marks from me!

I got one of these (although it was a refurbished one, not from Amazon) before coming to uni in September 08 - it is so good! The tone control in the middle gives a nice, bassy sound that I didn't expect at all, and the line in socket makes it a handy set of speakers for anything! As for reception, at home (in the countryside), it gets a pretty strong signal with the aerial extended, and at uni in Cardiff, it gets a full signal with the it folded up! The navigation system uses a turn-and-push knob-style navigation system, like the other Evokes, and the DRX hi-fi tuners, which is very intuitive. And waking up to Planet Rock in the morning is so nice! One handy feature with the alarm is that if the radio was last used on aux in, for example, and the alarm is set for radio, it will switch to radio for the alarm, which turns off after an hour.

All in all, I am very, very happy and would recommend it.

Within minutes, I realised I'd made an excellent choice.

This is a beautifully engineered DAB radio. Majestic looks, solid feel and oh-so simple set-up. Despite all of these incidentals my main hope was that it sounded good. We live in a relatively poor signal area so was resigned to the fact that it may not receive many stations and pre-empted the possibility for an external aerial in time...?

With some uneasiness I powered up, switched on and in seconds was then presented with a 'more than promised' list of available stations for our postcode. Admittedly some were slightly distorted until I moved the in-built aerial.

If that wasn't enough to make me smile I then decided to crank it up to test the sound capability. Reviews of the 2XT sound are varied, but I honestly can't see how anyone could criticise the purity of sound. I admit to being a bit of an audiophile so take a lot of pleasing in this department. We have a big room space to fill so anything too bassy or tinny just won't do. I've tried varying volume levels with tweaks of tone and can acheive a stunning quality of sound. Trust me, it sounds vastly bigger than it's physical size.

If I were to pick at anything I'd have to say that although it is reassuringly weighty, a second hand is needed to steady the unit when pressing the control buttons. If this demonstrates anything it should merely show how particular I am with product design and in the scheme of things, it's not enough to discourage me from declaring this to be our best purchase this year.

Good:
Great sound
Plays loud if you want it

Poor:
Few presets
Slow changeover between stations
Sometimes doesn't want to turn on properly (the biggiest niggle)
When on ACDC, bright blue backlight impossible to turn off
Bulky
Awlful handle
Aerial easy to break