Pure Highway

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Hi

 

I recently bought a Pure Highway for my Mk2 C5 and I'm pretty impressed with it.

 

I now have access to lots of good stations, and I'm future - proofed against the planned FM switch-off in 2015

 

The unit comes with a sat nav-type window mount, but this would messy with wires everywhere, so I simply blu - tacked it to the ash tray door and the centre console, angled up so I can read the display, with the power and aerial wires tucked behind, then down beside the drivers seat. Power is from the switched cigarette lighter feed

 

The supplied window mount aerial was useless (not helped by the Citroen heat resistant screen), so I bought the Pure magnetic roof mount aerial, which gves me rock solid reception of National and London based stations.

 

The system works by re-transmitting the signal on FM, and the standard RD4 radio is tuned to pick it up. It can also be connected to the cd changer slot of the RD4 via a line out socket. You can connect an ipod to the Pure which will then feed it to the radio if required

 

One nice little touch - a 3 minute record buffer, so you can rewind to the traffic report if, like me , you "tune out" when they start talking about M this and junction that, then panic when you realise they are talking about the road you're on..

 

Cost was £40 for a refurbished Highway on ebay (or £80 new) plus £20 for the aerial.

 

Rock and Roll!!

[Guest digitalinkjetman]

Converting a DAB signal back to FM loses all the quality the DAB is all about.

 

I gave up trying to get my system to work with a line in and just bought a Sony DAB head unit!

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Converting a DAB signal back to FM loses all the quality the DAB is all about.

 

I gave up trying to get my system to work with a line in and just bought a Sony DAB head unit!

 

 

Disagree on the sound quality issue. DAB is inferior to FM to begin with. Its advantage is signal strength and lack of interference, plus extra stations, and the fact that it will still work in the future.

At home I prefer FM over DAB, (I have a "duel fuel" tuner in my Hi Fi system), in the same way I favour vinyl over CD. Much easier on the ear. In a car, those differences are less noticeable, so DAB is fine.

 

Changing head unit is not an option on a Mk2 - the "radio" actually controls lots of the car's settings ( clock, directional lights, auto lights, display options etc etc.) - a silly idea that Citroen dropped on the latest C5.