Portable Speaker/DAB Radio

[911Alan]

Hi Guys,
Looking to purchase a portable speaker in the near future. It will be used mainly in the kitchen, but also alot in the garden during the summer at bbqs, etc.

Basic requirements:
- DAB tuner
- Rechargable battery (obviously!)
- Good sound quality. I'm not expecting it to sound amazing, however it is important that it can operate a decent volume without distorting.

Bluetooth would be nice too, but an aux in would suffice.

So far from my googling this seems to fit the bill, just need to try and listen to one instore somewhere really:
Pure Evoke D4 Portable DAB Bluetooth Radio - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pure-Evoke-Portable-Radio-...

Any other suggestions would be appreciated, budget ideally under £200 but I would spend more if neccessary.

[Rick Cutler]

I would suggest getting a Bluetooth speaker ie a BOSE Sound Dock type thing, very good on battery use but then stream audio from your phone to it. Use internet radio? Or do as most here and by a sonos play 3/5 and run an extension lead outside.

[911Alan]

Might be an idea,I'm off to NYC on Monday so might check out the pricing on bose units then.

[dugsud]

I've just bought one one of these from Currys on-line reduced from £99 to £49! Sounds great and you can stream from your smartphone via Bluetooth plus if you are connected to WiFi you can stream any radio station, spotify etc to it. Only about the size of a beer can.

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/audio/portable-audio/...

[bint]

Logitech Squeezebox (called something different now but is the same).

Streams internet radio, your music from your hard drive /NAS as well as able to play any plug in mp3/iPhone etc. can also be controlled from iPhone.

[eatontrifles]

Something I've been looking for myself, and there's a good selection in this review; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/16/review_dab...

I'm tempted to go for the Pure Evoke D2 with the optional battery pack which comes in at under £125.