DAB500 Bluetooth DAB+ Radio & CD Player, 60W HiFi System for Home

Easy set up. Connected to my record deck via aux cable. Bluetooth, DAB, USB, CD, FM all work perfectly. Sound is good. Equaliser settings plus you can set your own base and treble. Not as good as the Sony mini hifi it's replacing but not expecting that. Good looking unit. I emailed Oakcastle support with a USB query in the evening and they responded early next day. Overall recommended.

Love it, easy to use. Connects to bluetooth a dream and excellent sound quality. Doesnt take too much room up on my sideboard and can play my old cds on it. Looks the part and excellent quality. Really pleased with it, its a bonus comes with remote

This item is brilliant. It’s sit in small places And the sound quality is awesome. Highly recommend it.

Early days, but nothing really negative. Very, very well double boxed and padded. DAB radio came on by default, I've not checked the stations yet, but it is really clear, with the aerial in a 45° slant. The C.D. player is ok, it's a C.D. player, the USB can take any size stick with up to 5000 tracks on it, the Bluetooth connection is faultless, quick with no dropouts. The sound is great for the size and price of the unit, although, to me, the graphic equalizer is a bit basic. There's Normal, Pop, Jazz, Classical, Speech, Rock and Custom. You can only adjust either Treble or Bass, nothing in-between, it goes from 0-+7, both on +7 sounds, to me, the same as all of the other settings, or very subtle changes. The sound is clear at all volumes, with little to no distortion. All in all I'm favourably impressed, it does everything, including alarm clock and switches to power saving after 15 mins of quiet. The remote has most of the controls on it, if not more, a good range and batteries supplied! I'd recommend

Love it! It looks good, sounds good and it has an aux in socket that I plug my projector into. My only gripe is that is that the preset equaliser’s settings all sound the same! Luckily it has a personal equaliser setting as well. The bluetooth allows me to connect my phone and listen to Spotify. The black suits my decor.

Firstly, the weight of this system surprised me, it actually felt like a good quality product, instead of a lightweight attempt at being one, which is so common these days, sadly. I was sceptical at first because it arrived in the manufacturers carton, not in a plain cardboard transit box, just as if it had flown off the shelf to my door! Then I thought more about this, like the saving on weight, packing, and a greener planet, lesser carbon footprint etc, so I put that initial concern aside. Opening this product revealed it had been well packed, but not over the top, just sufficient packing material to protect it in transit, and indeed it arrived in perfect condition, when I removed it from its box. Its overall design is minimalist, not trying to be anything other than a superbly made, competitively priced music system, and nothing else, no pretence here. No wild claims, just honestly described,. It’s a classical black box shape, in a life like dark wood grain, which fits in anywhere, streamlined insomuch that nothing sticks out of its casing, just pride and pure simplicity. I plugged it in, without having looked at the instructions, so far, the display came alive and the DAB radio immediately started playing the station it was already tuned to. I looked at the control panel below the clear cut and well lit ( dimmable) digital screen ( after removing the protective film). I tentatively pressed the scan button and it commenced searching out stations available in my area, finding 98 of them, including most of my favourites from a different area I had just moved from! Still not having checked the instructions, feeling that this intuitively designed music system was just so simple to get to know, I pressed the mode button, impatient to find the CD setting, and it confirmed my curiosity by showing me the modes of AUX input, USB, FM, Bluetooth, DAB radio CD ! The supplied remote is a bonus, ergonomically designed to fit nicely in a hand, with a tactile finish, so won’t slip out easily, and it works so well, the batteries supplied in the box, so full marks. Worldly wise readers will notice from my short video clip of the system playing a CD, will hear a track from a Clifford T Ward album, which immediately gives away my advanced years! The clarity, breadth and crispness of the ‘true to life’ studio like audio response on playback, is truly awe inspiring. The base is bang on, and for me, with elderly hearing, the treble response is like listening to someone in the room, singing to me, which is praise indeed these days with modern lifeless systems out there. I have to admit that in selecting and paging through the equaliser settings, I didn’t notice a tremendous amount of difference between them, they all sounded great to me, but I settled on Rock, but later discovered that the speech setting was obviously pleasingly different when listening to the radio news. Maybe I really do need to go and get my hearing checked! I’m blown away with this music system, truly. I usually try the volume of systems before purchasing one, and at first, when I advanced the volume on this model, it only seemed to change slowly, but towards the last quarter to maximum, the gain comes through swiftly, and powerfully, surprising me, indeed. For such an economically sized all in one system, I found the volume to be more than sufficient. It’s not a linear response curve, with the distortion free punch at the upper end, like a well tuned sports car or motorcycle. I have not at the time of writing this review, tried all the modes yet, but I have complete confidence that they’ll all impress me as much as those I’ve tried already. I understand that this unit is of of UK design, and manufactured abroad, and one reviewer commented that he would be happy to pay more for this unit if it was assembled here in the UK. Obviously, using a company with the production facilities and transport infrastructure already in place seems to be an obvious choice, but overall I agree that it would be great if it was also manufactured and distributed from within the UK, but let’s not forget the importance of utilising trade links abroad, either. Stunning and amazing music system, which I have no hesitation in recommending to anyone thinking of purchasing it. The free extended 3 year warranty was simple enough to initialise, and worked, simply by pointing my iPad camera at the QR code and up popped the registration web site with a list of products covered, took about two minutes, and all done! I’m so happy with my purchase, and it takes a lot to satisfy my quest for good quality, value for money equipment these days. Update 20/10/2024: Thrilled to have found searching for and saving radio stations as presets in preferred order, so easily. Having the facility to swap allocated preset numerical positions is brilliant too, just add another station to preset 1 and it overrides whatever was stored before, so it really is easy to instantly change your priority favourite preset allocations. Bluetooth worked so well with my iPhone 8, again, intuitively. The only difference I found was the volume level was lower on Bluetooth, so it was necessary to advance my volume button on the iPhone or on the music system to compensate. That wasn’t a problem, I just felt that the overall volume was lesser on the Bluetooth setting than playing CD’s or listening to DAB radio. It’s not a criticism, simply an observation. Also, before I sign off again, one reviewer commented that the speakers, or the greater volume of sound, was coming from the rear of the music system, or appeared so. Yes, there are two cones on the rear of the system, and when it’s playing, sound can be heard emitting from them. Without going into the science involved, some of the sound created from the speaker cones vibrating at the different musical frequencies, will, in the main, go forwards through the front facing speakers towards the listener. However, as the speaker cones vibrate forwards and backwards at very high speed, sound vibrations naturally occur BEHIND the speakers, too. In a totally sealed unit, these sounds hit the rear of the case, and bounce back towards the speaker cones, and can cause different effects within the cabinet or casing. Sometimes described as out of phase, ie, original sound bounced back towards the source. There are different methods of reducing these sometimes unwanted effects, and in this music system, the designers have introduced cone like structures on the rear to effectively allow these extraneous sound pressure waves to escape freely. This is an over simplified explanation, which I hope explains why sound comes from the rear. To some it may appear better, according to the efficiency of their own hearing, or to the range of musical frequencies being created by the speaker cones, either way, it’s designed to increase the overall listening pleasure. Judging by the amount of comments from reviewers mentioning how good the system sounds, proves beyond doubt that those conical apertures are doing their job well! ***** September 2025 update ***** It’s still one of the best purchases I’ve made, no problems at all, always goes on for the Radio 4 Today programme every morning, still looks and sounds terrific, stunning piece of radio equipment, and plays my CD’s faultlessly.✅ **************************

When I got this out of the box I instantly loved the look of it. I’m fed up of dark coloured things so to get this oak coloured stereo was a definite plus and it goes with my oak furniture! As soon as I plugged it in it immediately found all the DAB radio stations. The sound is lovely and clear. I have a lot of CDs which I still play so I tried the CD player and it’s great. I’ve also used the Bluetooth which is brilliant. For the size of the stereo I was pleasantly surprised that it’s heavier than I thought it would be. Hopefully I will be using this for my enjoyment for many years to come. I would definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a stereo.

Excellent sound . easy to use . Well made. would recommend it and a good price. British made

Wirklich tolles Produkt. Viele individuell einstellbare Modi, das Bedienmenü ist auch für technik-unerfahrene selbsterklärend. Aufstellen - Anschalten - kurz gewünschten Modus einstellen - hören - fertig! Top - wir lieben es !

la radio funziona benissimo, ha una buona qualità di suono nonostante la compattezza. Sono soddisfatta

Je suis bluffé par la qualité du son, l'esthétique, la facilité de connexion, tout. Un bemol pour le tiroir CD qui semble d'une grande fragilité. Ça ne m'empêche pas d'en commander immédiatement un autre, le prix est pas croyable.

Great quality for the price but I wouldn’t expect perfection when it comes to the sound output. The CD tray isn’t the strongest build and the Bluetooth isn’t the greatest. I find your device needs to be within 4 foot to connect well. It’s not a bad sound, just not high end but as I say, at this price point you can’t expect that. Ideal for a kitchen or bedroom but not as your main system but then again I am an audio engineer and you may just want a decent cheap all in one system for background sounds. If that’s the case, I would recommend this system.

Suena bastante bien. Ocupa muy poco espacio. No hay que instalar altavoces, es un todo en uno. Lee discos originales y grabados. Tiene RDS, todas las presintonías necesarias, que se graban con mucha facilidad.