PureELAN CONNECT+ All-In One Internet Radio with Bluetooth 5.0 (DAB/DAB+ and FM, TFT Display, Preset Buttons Support, Music Streaming, Podcast, Battery Usage, USB), Charcoal

The PURE ELAN CONNECT+ seems to be the only reasonably priced fully featured radio you can use as a bedside alarm clock. Reception on airborn radio is increasingly tricky, so internet radio, so long as a strong WiFi signal is available works very well. The sound is not audiophile quality, but access to world radio stations without interference and with 2 alarms, easy to use sleep function and plenty of user presets across all bands, this is great value. Only downside is the non-dimmable, but full colour screen which is a little bright for sleeping. DAB and FM both function well on strong stations, but this is not guaranteed inside buildings or at distance from transmitters. Bass and treble, audio streaming quality and many other functions can be adjusted, and there is direct access to podcasts. Double the price will often not get so many useful features.

The Good: It’s a nice little unit with a clear display, easy to set up and stereo sound is more than adequate for a kitchen, which is where we now use it. BTW, we had to buy a separate, quite cheap, mains power brick in order to use this without batteries.The Bad: If you use it with batteries the attrition rate is atrocious. We originally used this in the bathroom, and often the radio would conk out, drained of power. We were recharging batteries and swapping them over far more often than we thought should be necessary. There are three buttons to set preferred stations. Only two of them will hold the setting once the unit is turned off. Lastly, the unit will not hold time settings and for some reason after midnight reverts back to the time originally set, before clocks went forward in the UK.Summary: A decent-ish gizmo, if you are willing to overlook the shoddy software, questionable hardware and lack of supplied mains power. In the words of the immortal Roy Walker “It’s good, but it’s not right.”

Very happy with it, wanted something for the desktop when working from home that also has Bluetooth for Teams calls (my webcam does the microphone). Really easy to set up internet radio, I used WPS and took seconds. Linking to my phone I was impressed that details of the YouTube video I was playing came up on the radio display. Sound quality is absolutely fine for what it is, a very compact radio, not unpleasant or tinny but obviously not really deep bass. NOTE ON POWER: The USB socket on the back says 5v 2.0A. I tested the current and at normal level it uses around a tenth this, rising to about 0.5A if you turn it up full and uncomfortably loud. So any 1A USB supply should be fine, and with current electricity prices it's good consumption is low. With the usb plug I use it is taking 0.9w on standby, 1.5w at a moderate level and around 3w turned up full. On battery, get decent NiMH rechargeables which could give up to 10 hours of use. It can drain a fair bit of current so alkaline not really suitable.Slight UI niggles, for example after listening to a podcast then going to DAB preset it still says Podcast at the top and the text information on the radio show isn't shown. Going to the menu with the 5 modes and reselecting DAB corrects this, hopefully a future update will rectify.

Good sound, looks good and a great way to easily access internet transmissions from across the globe, as well as normal DAB and FM. Seems great value for what it does. The manual search function is a little clunky but the default list of transmissions available seems pretty comprehensive so haven't needed to use much.

Had high hopes for this but was utterly disappointed.After setting up (which was quite a pain) I selected a couple of stations from Portugal which worked fine although the sound quality even on a fast fibre connction was not particularly good via the speakers but ok on headphones.I then tried to select other European stations from the countries menu but this did not work and the system reset itself regularly, e.g. when asked to list German stations.Tried a factory reset and checked for software updates (system showed latest software installed) but nothing changed.So it went back the next day.Needless to say that I will not buy another 'Pure' product!

This was nearly a best buy in a leading consumer magazine, but I can't say which.-Good sound for its size, cost.-Stereo headphone output useful for connecting to a soundbar or other speaker. Used with an LG soundbar and great results.-Bypass the set up wizard is my advice if you just need a simple DAB radio.-Amazing value as it includes a WiFi Internet radio option for online radio and podcasts etc.Batteries- works well, use rechargeable?