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We currently have a Klipsche ipod dock that is brilliant, compact with brilliant sound quality but really miss having a radio in the Kitchen.
Looking for a decent ipod dock with a DAB radio budget is currently about £170 currently looking at a mini hifi such as the Sony CMT-MX550i
Any other decent sounding compact option out their that I might not have seen. I have listened to the Sony and it seemed pretty good.
Has to be DAB as the FM radio reception is pretty poor where we live, DAB seems fine.
[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grundig-Speaker-System-Universal-Dock/dp/B002P83T94/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1323018848&sr=1-1 ]Grundig?[/url]
I liked my intempo thingy, £30 sh off of ebay, now for sale and everything! Since I went Logitech and wifi.
I've got a Roberts Sound 66 - sound is very good, no problems with reception - £122 from Amazon [url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Roberts-Radios-Sound-System-Dock/dp/B003TSAM8K/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1323020101&sr=1-1 ]Linky[/url]
Why not keep your current dock if you like it- and get an iPod touch. Then you can use a radio app over wifi. That's what I do
Pure Chronos iDock, sound quality is average but it's OK for the kitchen and cheap.
The Pure Contour 100Di looks nice though and has more power!
i use a radio app on my ipod which is plugged into my docking station everyday
[url= http://www.robertsradio.co.uk/Products/Internet_radios/COLOURSTREAM/index.htm ]Roberts[/url]
Or the idea above is pretty good. Internet radio offers much more choice than DAB.
I have the Pure Oasis in the Kitchen and my Daughter plays
her I pod through the headphone socket of the I pod that
plugs into the Aux in on the Pure Oasis.
Brilliant and flexible Radio for a One speaker radio.
I use a Yamaha DAB Mini unit with a set of Monitor Audio speakers in our kitchen but that will put your budget up to around £300
Slight thread hijack, but what's the iPod app that gets dab radio? I have a touch and went to the app store but couldn't find anything obvious? Cheers
cynic-al - Member
I liked my intempo thingy,
We got one of those (reconditioned). I love it - but after googling why it seems to freeze every now and again I notice it seems to have a common problem with the power supply. On the plus side - cheap as chips and sound is great. I dont have great hopes for it's longevity.
Slight thread hijack, but what's the iPod app that gets dab radio? I have a touch and went to the app store but couldn't find anything obvious? Cheers
[url= http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/tunein-radio-pro/id319295332?mt=8 ]TuneIn[/url].
Although technically it's internet radio.
Cheers Jamie, downloading it now 🙂
Another vote here for Roberts - I'm listening to the bigger brother of the one suggested by bbAardvark - ([url= http://www.robertsradio.co.uk/Products/DAB_radios/SOUND_43/index.htm ]link[/url]) - as I type this and its certainly one of my better purchases - and it can be had for about £175 if you shop around.
Dock + tunein +1
No reception issues, no outlay on radio. Just make sure you have wifi, otherwise your data will be eaten up in no time.
Current dock won't charge an iphone 4 so I presume it won't charge an ipod touch either am I correct.
Sorry, as ever I came a bit late to this thread. I would strongly recommend listening to a Vita Audio unit. Radio, iPod dock on the more expensive ones, excellent sound and unlike some, not ugly. . Not cheap but I don't regret it.
