Pure has launched an innovative suite of new products for the iconic Evoke range that are built on Frontier’s leading Venice X platform, offering the benefits of SmartRadio to their customers.
The new Evoke Spot, Evoke Play and Evoke Home products offer a diverse choice of usage across any home while taking the listening experience to the next level with a choice of DAB+, FM and Internet Connectivity.
Every model of the new reimagined line is a SmartRadio device and therefore combines the reliability of FM and DAB+ with the choice and flexibility of streaming Internet Radio, Podcasts and Spotify Connect.
Both Pure and Frontier have developed multiple products together, disrupting and changing the industry one collaboration at a time. Looking back on Pure’s product history, the Evoke-1 first laid the foundation and then adapted to customers’ needs over the course of 20 years, evolving into stereo product (Evoke 2) and then providing enhanced user experience with an added large colour screen and Bluetooth functionality (Evoke H4).
Keeping with this constant evaluation of customer needs and addressing current trends, the latest reimagined Evoke Series composed of the Evoke Spot, Evoke Play and Evoke Home combine the advantages of SmartRadio while keeping contemporary design and focus on usability.
Pure forwent the inclusion of any microphones or voice assistance allowing for maximum privacy.
The new Evoke models feature a foldable colour display that doesn’t only save space and make this compact music system look even slimmer, it also makes it easy to conceal distracting lights. Keeping ease of usability in mind, complex functions such as alarm clock, timer or changing the audio source are hidden away under the foldable display while everyday functions are easily accessible on the surface of the devices.
Frontier’s solutions are used by the world’s leading audio brands and are in millions of devices. Pure and Frontier have shaped the radio market with their innovations over the last 20 years and continue to push ahead.
The Venice X module supports Spotify Connect, Amazon Music and Deezer as well as over 60k Internet Radio stations and 100k podcast episodes.
Head of innovation and product management at Pure, Adrian Nordhaus, says, “We wanted to create a high quality and reliable product that had the best user experience that we could offer to allow us to be competitive in the growing SmartRadio market. We chose Frontier to work with and selected their Venice X platform, which combined high levels of functionality into a single, highly integrated turnkey module that enables SmartRadio products.”
Managing director at Frontier, Prem Rajalingham, says, “We are delighted to work with Pure and once again create innovative products that will lead the SmartRadio market. We continue to see the SmartRadio market growing, with brands moving more products from simple DAB + FM to SmartRadio products that combine DAB, FM, Internet Radio, podcasts and catch-up radio.”
I have a Pure Siesta and a Sangean receiver. They are excellent receivers.
But why haven't these receivers and the receivers described in the above article only have FM and DAB+ but no AM?
While there are triple-banded AM/FM/DAB+ receivers such as the Sangean DPR44 (branded as "Dick Smith") or DPR45, why isn't AM incorporated on most other models?
I predominantly listen to the simulcasted metropolitan talk stations on DAB+ instead of AM stations and have been doing so since 2009.
However there may be occasions where a particular AM station's broadcast is different to the particular DAB+ station. For example when our Federal Parliament is broadcast on the AM band (630kHz, Sydney), the DAB+ station is a continuation of its "rolling news" coverage.
The Venice X chip only incorporates FM, DAB+ and app processor, https://www.electronics-lab.com/worlds-first-single-chip-smart-radio/ .
The NXP SAF360 chip in addition to FM, DAB+ also processes DRM+, https://www.nxp.com/products/audio-and-radio/analog-digital-radio-and-audio/digital-radio-and-processing-system-on-chip:SAF360X .
It appears that the NXP is one up on the Venice X with decoding performed by software defined radio (SDR), https://www.electronicspecifier.com/products/communications/sdr-processor-decodes-drm-hd-radio-and-dab-dab-t-dmb . These chips are expected to be utilized in car infotainment systems.
Yet, the SDR method can decode any kind of modulation including AM, DSB, SSB. It is not unique to tabletop or car infotainment systems. You can experiment with $15 DVB usb dongles and suitable software to decode anything in addition to DVB broadcasts.
With the potential of SDR to decode any kind modulation, I cannot understand why the chip manufacturer does not incorporate AM into its portfolio of broadcast decoders.
Tesla removed the AM radio by mere software update while BMW argued that the AM radio has been disabled because electric motors interfere with radio reception, https://www.vice.com/en/article/yp3vmj/why-electric-cars-are-ditching-am-radio . You'd think that DSP methods could mimic the static sound and remove the static sound through software.
But that's a moot point,
My Camry has an electric motor/generator and when the electric motor operates in either generation and/or locomotion, it does not interfere with the AM reception.
Otherwise if motorists want to listen to AM radio, it's via a streaming IP app which costs money in data charges.
In sum, I fail to see why chip manufacturers fail to incorporate AM radio via SDR given that SDR can be decode analogue AM and FM and digital DAB, DAB+ and DRM+.
Thank you,
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