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Revo Heritage DAB/FM radio and iPod dock

Retro styling meets state-of-the-art tech

Connectivity is well catered for. As well as 802.11b/g Wi-Fi you also get an Ethernet port, 3.5mm auxiliary and headphones jacks, a composite-video out socket plus optical and RCA audio jacks, all of which make connecting the Heritage to a hi-fi or home cinema system a piece of cake - you just need to mute the Heritage's speaker.

Revo Heritage iPod Dock & Streamer

There's no shortage of buttons to press

What impressed me most about the Heritage's functionality was the way it accessed media over a wireless network. Not only did it connect very reliably - the occasional drop-out is par for course, but the Heritage didn't drop once in over a week - but access to UPnP media was impressively swift.

Press and hold the navigation arrows on the remote or use the front-facing joystick and album lists scroll past very briskly. The Heritage will also let you add items to its on-board favourites playlist just by holding down the select key when a track is playing.

Mercifully, Revo has resisted the temptation to foist social networking apps on its users, though this may be because the Heritage's subtly attractive black and white OLED screen flatters to deceive. Yes, that black panel is 150mm corner-to-corner but only a central block measuring around 65 x 40mm actually does anything. Size notwithstanding, the screen is clear, crisp, easy on the eye and legible in even direct sunlight, while Revo has judged the amount of information it displays at any given time nicely.

Revo Heritage
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