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Does anyone have this and would they care to comment on the quality.

I`ve just had some sour faced nerk in Halfords giving it the full " Oh I wouldn`t bother, everyone brings them back because the receptions lousy"

If your happy with it which one did you get, I need one with Ipod connection as well.

Snaps

I got the wife an add on one for christmas nearly 2 years back, she seems to like it. The quality is either really good, or nothing, there is no middle ground. Her drive to work (from London out to nearly M25) she gets coverage for about 90% of it. I guess the coverage will get better with time, but when it is there is sound quality is really good!

She has the JVC: KT-DB1000 - DAB Tuner, as an addon to her JVC head unit (plugs into the cd changer connection of existing unit).

Tom

I`ve been using a Pure Highway for a few months now and it`s been great. It rarely shows anything but full strength on the signal meter and in my opinion sounds great.

I was a bit dubious when I got it as I`ve tried a couple of MP3 player FM transmitter things and they`ve sounded pretty awful but the Highway comes through crystal clear with no hiss to spoil what you`re listening to.

Hope this helps

Pete.

Whilst the Pure looks a good idea the fag lighter socket is already taken up with the Sat Nav and you then end up with cables flapping all over the place and a lighter socket looking like one of those multi connectors shoved in a light socket from a 50`s movie.

If I could find a way to avoid that I`d consider one.

Snaps

The Highway also runs off a couple of AA batteries if the lighter socket is in use. There`s also a headphone out so it doubles up as a portable DAB radio as well.

I had a JVC KD-DB711 in my last car and the sound quality was awesome on my journey to work (Melton Mowbray to Bingham), with a much better selection of stations to choose, Planet Rock for starters!

However, try driving into Leicester and half way down the A46 it turned into Norman Collier! No interference at all when it looses a signal, just cuts in and out.

If you are going to use it in an area with good coverage, the sound quality is about 200 times better than analogue. If your in a bad coverage area, you will soon pull your hair out!

This model also plays MP3`s off a CD, but in hindsight I would have selected one that had a USB port instead.

Just an update on this if anyones bothered.
I`ve had the Pure Highway for a few weeks now and it`s a great little unit.
However in and around Liverpool town centre the independent stations like Planet Rock are fine but reception of the Beebs output is crap.

Anyone know why. Have they not put a bob in the meter lately, skimping on transmitters.



Snaps

Whilst it makes perfect sense to me for everyone to migrate to digital radio, it seems a lot of people are not bothering:
www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/09/uncouple_dab_albatross/

Might explain the poor reception/lack of transmitters you`re seeing.

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