Naquada

So I’ve started to go fully Digital. I’ve liked the idea of DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) for a long time, and was shamed into the fact that my sister had a DAB radio, and I didn’t!!

I decided to test out the whole DAB experience with the Pure Chronos, a DAB Digital Clock Radio from Pure Digital. I’m actually really impressed, on the sound side, the quality it much better than what I had before, I never managed to get my old clock radio to hold any station without sounding awful, crackly, hissing or just losing it completely. With the DAB it picked up all the stations perfectly, and gets 100% signal strength, the general sound just also sound much fuller and better (obviously from being a digital signal).

I’ve also found a few stations that weren’t available to me before, like Chill, similar in style to things like overexposure.fm but with a leaning to more mainstream chill.

On the technical side, I like the idea that the Chronos has four alarms. Each settable for weekdays, weekends, daily or once. The once setting allowing you to set an alarm for a certain date and time in the future. So this means I can now keep my early morning work days separate from my weekend lay ins..

Also, since the DAB signal contains the date and time, no more setting the clock to be right after power-cuts or summer/winter swap overs. The only downside, and I say this is a minor point; the unit only displays nasty 24 hour format time, I’m a purist, not in the military, and like my times to be am or pm.. as yet I’ve not found a way to get it into that format..

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