Roberts Revival RD60

Zitat: The good: + At last, a high tech gift your granny will love. The non-threatening Roberts has the Bakelite dials she’ll remember from her childhood and a large print LCD display with a cosy amber backlight. The radio has one-touch tuning for her favourite old-school station (bet you five shillings it’s Classic FM) so she can pretend those noisy, uncouth Beatles never happened. Underneath the nostalgia, there are modern features galore, including an eco-friendly 120-hour battery life, automatic tuning and an iPod jack. The bad: - It’s a shame that the RD-60 lacks both Robert’s handy PausePlus button to rewind live radio (not as far back as the 1950s) and scrolling text display. Radio 4 and scratchy old jazz records are as warm and crisp as a freshly toasted crumpet but anything recorded in stereo sounds a touch flat through the monophonic speaker. The best of tradition and modernity wrapped up together in an extremely well built package. One of the very few radios that will look and sound just as cool in a decade’s time as it does now. Assuming Aunty Beeb is still broadcasting in DAB, that is.

Zitat: We love: + Classic 50s looks + one touch tuning + bakelite dials We hate: - No PausePlus feature - no scrolling display A great basic DAB with looks that will never go out of fashion