Pure Digital The Bug Review

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Pure Digital The Bug
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adrianjm55's Review of Pure Digital The Bug DAB Digital Radio

25th Apr 2006

Overall Rating

2.5 stars
  • Value for money
    2 stars
  • Sound Quality
    1.5 stars
  • Ease of Use
    1.5 stars
  • Time Digital Radio Owned
    6 - 12 Months
  • Features
    3 stars
Good Points

Best range of functions in a DAB radio


Bad Points

Poor sound quality. Quirky difficult to use controls. Slow creaky software/processing power


General Comments

The Pure Digital The Bug is my first DAB Radio so I don't have any other points of reference but I would say that the radio is fairly easy to set up and that reception is good with the supplied telescopic aeriel. I've also tried the radio way from home a couple of times with good reception.
I choose The Bug because it offers the abilty to make programed recordings VCR style. When these are saved to the optional SD memory card they can be transferred to a protable media player.The recordings are made in MP2 format rather than MP3 although The Bug can play back MP3s saved to an SD card from another device Don't be fooled by the tinny looking speakers, they really are tinny. I've invested in some half decent computer speaker to get the sound up to bearable quality but I'm more picky on sound than some. The controls remind me of something on a personal FM tuner from one of those high street shops where everything costs a pound. The main toggle control is slow to respond and far too easy to toggle the wrong way. The blurb makes great play about it's Wayne Hemingway design. Mr Hemingway should stick with fashion design or whatever it is he made his name with. His quirky design gets in the way of the products functionality in a number of ways.
Although The Bug does pretty much everything I expected it to do it fails to do it with any style.....it's like a work in progress that need a bit more sorting.
I paid about 125 pounds for mine but prices have come down now so I guess value for money is now higher than I've indicated.

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