Hi Rob - I’m not sure I would purchase a Pure internet radio or any other internet radio today. I’d be tempted to purchase a good portable bluetooth speaker and link it to my iPhone. And Pure has some well rated ones with its Jongo series. I’m also concerned that the product information for the Pure Evoke F4 with Bluetooth that I have no longer seems to mention access to Sirius/XM, although that feature still works on my unit as I write this. I’ve written Pure Support for an explanation and will share their response when I receive it. Pure Support is very responsive, usually within 24-48 hours.
Having said all that, I have two Pure radios that I like very much. The original Pure Evoke (which is still available at a steep discount) I have now resides permanently in our condo in Florida. I’ve had it for four or five years and it still works well and sounds good for a radio its size. The only proviso with that one is that the changes made at the BBC make Listen Again inoperable on it due to firmware incompatibility. Most BBC programs are also available as podcasts, so that is not a “fatal” issue. The Evoke F4 lives in our home in New York. Its audio seems a little more powerful with additional bass response over the original Evoke. The Bluetooth feature is added in a rather clunky way via a small USB plug-in at the back of the set, but it works. Both radios are made portable through use of a charge-pak (different ones for each model) that provide about 8-10 hours of wireless listening when fully charged. The chargepaks are optional accessories that run about $50. Worth it, in my opinion. As with other internet radios, for full feature usability one needs to register the unit(s) on the pureconnect web site. This works pretty much the same way similar sites work with their proprietary radios. It is regularly updated and, as I said, the Pure support staff is very responsive. Adding stations that aren’t yet in Pure’s database is very easily accomplished. I’ve done it many times. An alternative that works well also is the Pure Evoke One portable, which is smaller than the Evoke and Evoke F4. We raffled one off at Winterfest a couple of years ago. It has fewer features (no bluetooth) but does have a headphone jack to which a larger speaker could be connected if the audio from the unit is deemed not to be pleasing enough. John > On Sep 30, 2015, at 11:57 PM, Rob de Santos <rdesan...@afana.com> wrote: > > Thanks for posting hat link. The Guardian piece is one of the more balanced > and > reasonable articles on the whole mess. I remain amazed at the way the BBC > handled all of this over the past year. It was, to borrow a phrase from the > late > Yogi Berra, "déjà vu all over again" for those who remember the abandonment of > shortwave to the Americas. > > John - if you were buying a Pure tomorrow, which model would you recommend? > The > Evoke F4? Buy direct? > > -- > -Rob de Santos > > -----Original Message----- > From: Internetradio [mailto:internetradio-boun...@hard-core-dx.com] On Behalf > Of > John Figliozzi > Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 11:57 AM > To: Internet radio discussion <internetradio@hard-core-dx.com> > Subject: Re: [Internetradio] SiriusXM Streaming > > This changing of formats problem also affects or affected access to BBC > streams, > a topic that was discussed here at length when it first happened. In nosing > around, I found this article that might serve as a more complete and > accessible > explanation than that offered by the BBC. > > http://gu.com/p/46c99/sbl > > jaf > >> On Sep 30, 2015, at 11:48 AM, John Figliozzi <jfigl...@nycap.rr.com> wrote: >> >> None of this seems to be affecting the Sirius/XM feature in Pure radios. > (www.pure.com/us) The Pure Evoke F4 wifi internet radio is their latest such > unit and it incorporates Sirius/XM for those who pay the latter for the > privilege is listening to them via the internet. I know that Imagination > Technologies, the parent company of Pure, has a working arrangement with > Apple; > but of course that would have nothing to do with Sirius/XM. >> >> John Figliozzi >> >>> On Sep 30, 2015, at 11:36 AM, Richard Cuff <rdc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> While I know it's no comfort when it comes to the existing Internet >>> radio universe, I am sure these content providers see devices like >>> $50 tablets and would rather we all migrate to those... >>> >>> RC >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Daniel L. Srebnick <d...@islenet.com> >>> wrote: >>>> Here is a link to the SiriusXM hardware manufacturer list. 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