We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Dave Starling
saying something like:

That said it would be nice to have the ability to playback
from SD. I guess in a couple of years time we will have the £50 range
of ghetto blasters that have this capability.

Plenty around already.

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Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Dave Starling
saying something like:

That said it would be nice to have the ability to playback
from SD. I guess in a couple of years time we will have the £50 range
of ghetto blasters that have this capability.

Plenty around already.

My car radio can record/replay from SD too. Can't say I've ever used it in
anger.

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*Starfishes have no brains *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:01:04 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

Plenty around already.

What - £50 ghetto blaster with DAB and SD record/play?

Any makes/models you've come across / could recommend?

tia

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John Stumbles

A: Because it messes up the order in which people read text.
Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing?

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember John Stumbles
saying something like:

Plenty around already.

What - £50 ghetto blaster with DAB and SD record/play?

Not the DAB, but the subject seemed to have veered to non-DAB.

A few general observations (which I should have linked to the original
post, but my newsreader doesn't show it).

1. I have a Pure DMX-50 Micro 'Hifi system'; records onto SD card using
a Sky-Plus / Freeview recorder menu-type system; degree in computer
science not required. Records onto MP2 format.

2. It plays MP2 and MP3 format; however, while playing MP3s the timing
seems corrupted, i.e. if I want to resume listening at mm:ss, it is hit
and miss. In addition, it would be really nice if it had a 'resume from
last stop' feature --- like my Freeview recorder has and like tape has.

3. It records only from DAB; that is understandable but a disappointment
for I retired an old system with a tape and I miss being able to record
from FM. I can record onto a computer, or an MP3 player (and hence MP3
- SD card), but it's enough hassle to not get done most of the time.

4. The FM tuner seems adequate.

I'm well enough pleased with the DMX-50 (about £120 from
MorganComputers); setting recordings is easy. I'd be interested to know
if the Roberts portables are compatible with Pure with respect to SD
recordings.

Here's something more relevant to the original question. I have a 'Red'
portable DAB radio (Sainsbury's a few years back); hard on batteries,
but I knew that; the big problem is the FM tuner --- fails to pick up a
station a distance away that my other equipment does okay on;
unfortunately, the station is in a part of Ireland that has not yet
moved to DAB. This seems to be a problem also with recent small portable
FM radios; I assume they use similar chips. You could run into similar
problems in certain types of buildings. However, I guess you are in an
area where everything can be received via DAB.

I'd buy another portable DAB radio, e.g. one of the Roberts, but I
cannot properly test the sensitivity of the FM tuner in advance.

Best regards,

Jon C.

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Jonathan Campbell www.jgcampbell.com BT48 UK

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

I've got a truly ancient AM radio I built from a kit some 40 odd years
ago. Not a pocket set but full sized portable with 7x4" speaker. Plenty
loud enough to fill a room. PP9 battery lasts about 6 months of heavy use.
Not that it gets that these days. ;-)

I had one of the early Trevor Bayliss Freeplay radios. It would run for
almost an hour on a wind at the sort of volume I listen. It could also
bang out some loud noise if required, because apparently that was a plus
point for the African market. Sadly someone loaned it to a friend who
broke it by overwinding. Same friend never quite got around to replacing
it and I don't like the current replacements.