Cowon iAudio D2 DAB 16GB
Okay, we’re cheating slightly with this one - it’s not so much a radio, more a palm-sized touchscreen media player that manages to pack an awful lot in, including MP3/WMA/Ogg/FLAC playback, video, photo viewing and SD memory expansion. For our purposes though, how does its intriguing DAB functionality hold up? The D2 tunes in to the digital ether in the same way it picks up FM signals, via the headphone wire - which is great if you’re in a good reception area, but rather warbly and gurgly if you’re not.
It’s also worth noting that this ‘lead receiver’ solution can come a cropper with the ‘fixed station’ nature of DAB compared to fine-tuneable FM, sometimes resulting in complete drop-outs, while hooking it up to an amp via a phono lead can prove more trouble than it’s worth.
Take a stroll outside though, and the clarity improves substantially. Its screen is put to great use in DAB mode by displaying the track details and news headlines broadcast by certain stations, and the overall sound quality when you get a good signal is very pleasing to the ear indeed. DAB die-hards tread carefully then, but casual listeners with heavy on-the-go media demands, you have our blessing…
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