Your flag says your in the UK, why do you want to upgrade to a radio system that is a downgrade?
DAB is pants.
AFAIK You have to be in a really good coverage area and if you go slightly out of it you lose radio al together rather than just get a slightly bad signal.

Besides, it only needs to be able to pick up radio 2

MRIM said:

Not at all.

I've got an old Pure Highway in my own car and that does great. Even with the crappy aerial that you stick to the inside of the windscreen, the sound is much better than with FM.

The only issue with it, is that it receives the DAB signal then effectively 'broadcasts' it over a spare FM frequency to the head unit. Sometimes, if you drive around the counrty, you find that this 'spare' frequency belongs to a local station, and you have to fiddle about to get an available one.

As I understand it, modern units use a wired FM modulator so there is no interference from local stations. Plus, I intend to get a proper DAB aerial, so I'm expecting really excellent sound.

I'm in a hire car from work at the moment, and it's doing my head in not being able to listen to Radio 6 (I did use my phone to listen over the net and through an AUX cable, but it was giving my data allowance something of a kicking!)

Anyhoo....

Getting back to my original question, the AutoDAB DAB-FT1 model (autodab com/Fiat.html) says that it is compatible with the Grande Punto. How different is the stock audio set-up in an Evo?

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Did you ever get any further with this? I think I've got AutoDAB fitted in my Punto by Fiat.