Pure Highway
08 FEB 2008
Launch price
£70.00
Stuff says
A genuinely innovative gizmo that brings great quality digital radio to your wheels for little outlay
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Want crystal-clear digital radio in your motor, but don't want to rip out your existing audio system? Pure thinks it has the answer: a windscreen-mounted box called the Highway that streams DAB to your radio over FM.
Window licker
Like a sat-nav device, you'll need to sucker the Highway onto your windscreen. It receives the DAB signal through a strip aerial that again needs to be attached to your screen. If you're already using sat-nav and driving anything smaller than a Porsche Cayenne, be aware that adding this second device might eat up a little too much windshield real estate.
Also like a sat-nav, you can detach it when parked up. There are batteries on board, but most of the time you'll be running the Highway from your car's power socket. It can also double up as a streaming device for an MP3 player via a 3.5mm jack, but with no Bluetooth this can all result in some messy cabling issues.
You're listening to Radio Highway...
Rest assured, from now on it's all good. Once up and running, the Highway rapidly searches for available DAB stations and a free FM slot. It then tells your radio which frequency to tune to, even appearing in RDS text as 'Pure DAB'. It locks on to the digital signal quickly.