Your favourite chair. The well-worn sweater you always reach for. The watch your grandad gave you. Life’s full of things we treasure and for us, it’s the R1 radio. It was the first product Ruark launched in 2006 and we still cherish it today – and so do our customers. It’s perfectly proportioned, beautifully made, deceptively powerful and entirely adorable. What’s not to love?
- Class leading sound with adaptive EQ
- DAB, DAB+ and FM tuners
- High quality Bluetooth receiver
- USB port for phone charging and shuffle playback
- High contrast OLED display with auto dimming
- Easy-to-use dual alarms and sleep function
Each generation of our R1 has been an evolution of the original, but with R1 Mk4 we wanted it to be more progressive both in design and performance.
Using a precision moulding process has allowed us to gently profile the enclosure providing a fresh new look and the perfect surface for our new Light Cream and Espresso finishes. With acoustic treatment the enclosure is sturdy and acoustically inert, providing the ideal housing for our electronics and NS+ driver.
Enhancing the design further is a beautiful hand-crafted slatted wood grille. This brings added sophistication and creates a timeless Eames like vibe, but overall, the design is still unique and distinctly Ruark.
With its battery status display and improved power management R1 Mk4 works even better and longer with the our optional BackPack 3* and means you can enjoy R1’s rich mains powered performance where mains power is unavailable.
BackPack 3* attaches seamlessly to R1 and once fitted can be left permanently in place as it charges automatically whenever mains power is re-applied. A full charge will provide up to twelve hours of mains free listening depending on volume.
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- Class leading sound with adaptive EQ
- DAB, DAB+ and FM tuners
- High quality Bluetooth receiver
- USB charge and shuffle playback port
- Auto dimming high contrast OLED display
- Easy-to-use dual alarms and sleep timer
- Adaptive EQ provides ideal sound at all volumes
- Multiregional FM (World, USA, Japan and Korea)
- High fidelity Class A-B amplifier
- Ruark NS+ neodymium full range driver
- Acoustically tuned and damped polymer cabinet
- Adjustable bass and treble settings
- Hand-crafted slatted wood grille
- Intuitive RotoDial controller
- Optional remote control with 4 direct access presets*
- Presets to store favourite stations – 8 per band
- Real time clock with battery backup
- Easily customised for hotel use
- USB-C multi format shuffle playback port
- Switchable analogue input for aux devices
- Headphone output memorises last used volume
- Multilingual UI (EN, DA, DE, ES, FR, IT, JA, KO, NL, NO, PL, RU, ZH)
- Automatic standby after 20 minutes of inactivity
- Power adapter: 100-240VAC, 50-60Hz input, 14VDC 1.5A output
- Dimensions: H175 × W130 × D135mm
- Weight: 1.5kg
