Roberts DAB radios

[andthesunshineband]

It looks like the main difference is the iStream model can connect to wifi and offers internet radio as an option. You can also select to play from various streaming platforms (spotify, amazon) so assume you can link to your account. It is slightly larger as well, but whether that translates to a better audio experience, I don't know.

It's only money eh?
If you Google Roberts radio what hifi it will take you to several reviews of their stuff. Pros and Cons etc

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

It looks like the main difference is the iStream model can connect to wifi and offers internet radio as an option. You can also select to play from various streaming platforms (spotify, amazon) so assume you can link to your account. It is slightly larger as well, but whether that translates to a better audio experience, I don't know.

It looks to me as though I need to bite the bullet and pay the extra for the iStream 3L model. I like to be able to listen to other parts of the world, from time to time. (The Uno is, I think, just a basic, pretty Roberts radio with the Bluetooth option). I don't however have a Spotify or Deezer account, and don't particularly intend to get one. Perhaps I should be more open-minded about it, but I'm intensely wary of sites that require you to have a regularly paid subscription. It's one of the reasons why I won't have an iTunes account. It's probably crazy, and I'd probably save money in the long run, because I do download stuff on an ad hoc basis from iTunes, and pay for it as I go (have just done so, as it happens — just yesterday). Anyway, that's another kettle of fish entirely.
The iStream model is bigger in its dimensions over the Uno, I notice. Almost certainly, that will give it better sound quality, since the speakers will be bigger. It's also just, well, a very handsome radio. Almost a small piece of furniture.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

It's only money eh?
If you Google Roberts radio what hifi it will take you to several reviews of their stuff. Pros and Cons etc

Cheers. Will do.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

That's interesting. I'm really waking up to stuff. I kind of knew what DAB was, I had just assumed for years that it had been more or less universally adopted.
Far from it! I find that for the stations I listen to most — France Culture, France Inter, France Musique — DAB+ (as they now call it, don't know why) has only been applied since February of this year! You could have knocked me down with a feather. I also listen to Radio 3 for the news, just to get an alternative point of view on European and world issues to the French one (you get some good stuff, I assure you, some very amusing divergence of interpretation…)
So anyway, even more reason to get a good Roberts DAB radio. Yeah, I'm stuck on Roberts, I'm afraid, as I said in the OP. They're just such damned beautiful objects.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

It looks to me as though I need to bite the bullet and pay the extra for the iStream 3L model. I like to be able to listen to other parts of the world, from time to time. (The Uno is, I think, just a basic, pretty Roberts radio with the Bluetooth option). I don't however have a Spotify or Deezer account, and don't particularly intend to get one. Perhaps I should be more open-minded about it, but I'm intensely wary of sites that require you to have a regularly paid subscription. It's one of the reasons why I won't have an iTunes account. It's probably crazy, and I'd probably save money in the long run, because I do download stuff on an ad hoc basis from iTunes, and pay for it as I go (have just done so, as it happens — just yesterday). Anyway, that's another kettle of fish entirely.
The iStream model is bigger in its dimensions over the Uno, I notice. Almost certainly, that will give it better sound quality, since the speakers will be bigger. It's also just, well, a very handsome radio. Almost a small piece of furniture.

The basic Spotify account is free

 

[denislawsbackheel]

That's interesting. I'm really waking up to stuff. I kind of knew what DAB was, I had just assumed for years that it had been more or less universally adopted.
Far from it! I find that for the stations I listen to most — France Culture, France Inter, France Musique — DAB+ (as they now call it, don't know why) has only been applied since February of this year! You could have knocked me down with a feather. I also listen to Radio 3 for the news, just to get an alternative point of view on European and world issues to the French one (you get some good stuff, I assure you, some very amusing divergence of interpretation…)
So anyway, even more reason to get a good Roberts DAB radio. Yeah, I'm stuck on Roberts, I'm afraid, as I said in the OP. They're just such damned beautiful objects.

It was basically the U.K. that largely adopted and stuck with DAB.
Everywhere else got on to DAB+ pretty quickly.