Today I became the owner of a Devo Freeplay DAB radio and I have to say that I’m very pleased with it.
My family have been heavy users of the *fantastic* Roberts RD6 DAB radio (the older version without the pause feature) for the last 18 months or so which lives in our kitchen and is rarely off but I’d always wanted something that I could move around the house easily.
The Devo Freeplay contains 6x AA Ni-M rechargeble batteries which are charged from the supplied 9v adaptor or - check this - the wind up charger built into the back. Interestingly 60 seconds of winding will give you 1 hour of FM (a tuner which it also has) but only 3-5 mins of DAB, I never knew how much power it was drawing.
Anyway, the radio has a great sound and importantly has composite audio outputs to allow stereo output to a separate amp and as a nice touch when connected, the in-built speaker is disabled.
On top of the 5 presets another nifty feature is the “Station order” tuning mode which remembers which stations you have listened to and orders the station listing by the number of times one has tuned in to the stations.
Not much more to say really other than the build quality is good; it has a faux carbon fibre look, the standard two line (blue) LCD display and a headphone socket.
A great buy.
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February 24th, 2006 at 5:20 am
Just last night I was looking at my old Freeplay wind-up AM/FM and thinking just how cool it is. Fi bought it for me for Christmas back in 2003 and it gets daily use still - DAB sounds really cool. Surprised at the difference between FM and DAB though…
Nice one - oh yeah and happy birthday you old b*$&$