Pure Digital DMX-60 Review

The DMX-60 will come as a bit of a surprise to those only familiar with Pure’s more retro portable DAB players. Designed to ape the micro system royalty, the design is quite successful – if a little deceptive.

 

Questionable construction
See, the faux separates styling might fool you into thinking the Pure can compete with its rivals in the build department, but in truth, unless you’re standing in a dimly lit room it’s going to be pretty clear where Pure has saved some money.

 

We’re not talking cardboard and Sellotape here, but your fingertips will miss that chunky, reassuring solidity you get from the likes of the Denon and Onkyo systems.

 

The DMX-60 houses a CD player as well as DAB and FM tuners and comes with bundled speakers. Again, they’re not the prettiest but they should, in theory at least, work in total harmony with the electronics.

 

That’s the problem with theory though, it doesn’t always match reality. In this case, what you get is a reasonable yet rather ho-hum sound – vocals seem pretty decent but the treble can be a little sharp and the bass woolly. It can all get a little aggressive at high volume as well.

That’s the problem with theory though, it doesn’t always match reality. In this case, what you get is a reasonable yet rather ho-hum sound – vocals seem pretty decent but the treble can be a little sharp and the bass woolly. It can all get a little aggressive at high volume as well.

 

The same is also true of the performance from both the DAB and FM tuners – a little surprising for a Pure product.

 

Feature-packed
But if the music is a bit of a let-down at least you can content yourself with all the useful features Pure have managed to cram into its dainty chassis.

 

You can pause and rewind live radio (no fast-forwarding through Chris Moyles unfortunately), record DAB to SD card (for those with fond memories of recording the Top 40 on a Sunday night) and hook up to a PC via the rear-mounted USB slot.