Clock Reviews

To me, battery back-up is essential...

I purchased this great Sony CD/Radio/Alarm Clock for my office. It works perfect as an office clock as the LED display is rather large and easy to read from across the room. The radio gets surprisingly good reception and my CD's sound great. It's pretty small in size, so fits perfect on my desk too.

In fact, I like this little Sony so much, that I purchased a white one for home use. It's a great alarm clock that is easy to set. You can have two different times programmed in, which works out perfect for the days I wake up early to go to the gym.

If you need an alarm clock or a portable CD player, this would be a great choice.

this thing is nice. The nap timer and the 2 preset alarm times are especially handy, and the sound is surprisingly decent too. Well worth my 50 bucks.

With such excellent reviews of this VCR I did not expect any problems...unfortunatly I was wrong. The VCR boasts a cable box controller that is supposed to "bounce" off your walls to control the box. This feature did not work with my standard cable box unless the box teetered off the side so its sensor was directly over the VCRs sensor (whickh is placed on the left top corner of the VCR instead of the middle). The setup and program features are archaic and the remote buttons are awkwardly placed.

The first VCR which truly communicates faultlessly with a DSS box. An amazing product.

I bought this VCR listening to all the wonderful things people have said about Toshibas VCR. They have special technology in all of their VCRs for better veiwing. Combined with monster cables this VCR produced crystal clear video and great Hi-Fi sound. I have one complaint, but a small one. On most other VCRs, if you leave a movie paused long enough, it will just stop the movie. On this VCR after that amount of time, it would just continue playing the movie. This problem is easy enough to cope with by pressing the stop button if you are going to be away for an extended period. Good Value, great buy. Remember, for the best audio/video buy monster cables to interconnect your TV to VCR.

This alarm does its job; however its a job to get it to do so. There is a total of fourteen dials and buttons, with a total of twenty different functions, some of which must be used in tandem. ( a pain! ) The names on the buttons are printed sooooo small they are very difficult to read - lite gray on a black background. To this reviewer simpler is usually better; try another alarm clock.

THE GOOD - got this as a present from my mom as a college student. it never fails to make me up and hit the snooze! and the BEST feature is are the double alarms you can set to either wake up to the buzz or radio. the radio tuner and volume dials are on one side, while the alarm switches are on the other side - both easy to access and learn. has a 9-volt backup battery source in the back u can use.

THE BAD - the buttons on the front are a bit hard to press and hold down when setting the time/alarm, but you get used to it. the LED light is a bit too bright even on the lowest setting...that's only a nitpick since i like the room black as night. it is not small, but about 7" wide, 5" high, 3" deep - a good size to handle with though, i dont clocks that are too small.

OVERALL - worth the 20$!

The Zenith Z124B Dual Alarm Clock Radio is a good buy. I've had it now for two years and haven't seen any problems with it. The best thing about it is that it's small and can fit just about anywhere. You can set the alarm to where it'll wake you up by a buzzer or the radio. It's not confusing to learn how to set the alarm, change the time, or anything. And you can also set the volume on how loud you want the alarm to be. There's also a switch that allows you to set how bright the digital time appears.

If you're looking for a good clock radio that is worth the price, I recommend getting this one.

I bought two of these - for each of my kids bedrooms. It is nice and compact with the clock and the cd player -- perfect for their bedside music. The problem is they don't keep time correctly -- every time there is a power outage (and they go on the back up battery) both start to run ahead (they seem to pick up 10 minutes every few months). One of them is now not playing the cd without hitting the button five times and turning it on and off a few times. It also sometimes starts playing music in the middle of the night on its own.

I was here looking to replace with the Sony (figured it was better quality) and was surprised to see another review liking this one and having problems with the Sony....

Actually ended up buying two of these, one for both floors of the house. We had to replace our less than a year old Sony's as they had both broke, one had the CD parts fall off and the other keep time from another universe. Yes I did take them back to the dealer and was told to send them to Sony. It was easier and in this case cheaper to buy new units. Easy to use and so far very reliable. I do like the CD track option for wake ups, really is special on those special celebration days for the significant other. I bought one GPX at a local retailer and the second from Amazon. Great product.....

I was very pleased and excited when I got this CD alarm/radio. The sound is good, the features work well. It's easy to figure out how everything works and to program the various functions. I loved it. HOWEVER, the second week I had it, CDs started to skip more and more (they play fine on both my other players), which is VERY annoying, since playing CDs to go to sleep and wake up by is mainly what I bought it for...so think about how you are going to be using this one, and how often.

This is a great gift to give. It has a clear sound and the CD player is great. My daughter loves it and she has no excuse not to get out of bed in the morning. The sound is great wakes her right up. I give it 5 stars/

The clock's LCD display can not be read from across the room during daytime or even with an overhead light on in the evening.
This could be corrected if the light that illuminates the clock face had an option to remain on. Currently, one hits the bar on the top of the clock and the clock face is illuminated for 5 seconds and then the light turns off. The second option would be to replace the LCD with an LED readout.
Also, when using the projection feature the display is clearly visible, but it is reversed/upside down. One has to turn the clock almost backwards to get a correct view of the time on the ceiling.

I actually have this clock. The ceiling display can be rotated from 0-90 degrees, or there it a button to rotate 180degrees -- giving you 360 degrees. Its sittin on my nightstand, approx. 12 feet from me, right now, and I can read the LCD display from here. It's designed to not be a bright light when you're sleeping, and when the alarm goes off it auto-lights the LED and the LCD displays, so you can see it. :)

The alarm automatically shuts itself off after an hour, however, if you let it shut off by itself, you have to reset the clock again, it will not go off the next morning, even if the alarm button is set.

The battery back up has worked when my power was out for a few hours, but when I lost power for 4 days, the back up didn't work.

This alarm clock has everything I need in an alarm clock. It has the battery back up, the 24 hour reset feature, and large numbers on the display. Who needs anything else?

I've owned the Philips MC-M570 shelf system for a few months and I am generally satisfied with its performance and features. I especially like the USB PC Link that allows you to play your PC sound through the system. However, there are several features missing that I find are really necessary for me. The unit lacks a balance control, separate bass and treble controls (not even a tone control), a cassette deck, and there are no line out jacks.

A balance control is a necessity if you put the unit's speakers in any place other than the "ideal" positions. The lack of bass and treble controls can be tolerated if you are happy with one of the nine preset equalization settings. The problem is that you can select only one of these at a time and cannot "mix and match" combinations of them. I am not particularly happy with any one of the preset settings, primarily because they all produce too much bass for my liking. A separate bass control would correct this.

Although the unit has 5 CD trays that are nicely arranged, a single cassette deck would be beneficial for recording from CD or the tuner. If it at least had "line out" jacks you could pipe the output to another device. The headphone output can be used for this but then the sound is muted. Since I only paid about a hundred bucks for the unit I decided that it was not worth returning it but I will probably relegate it to the guest room as soon as I find somrthing better. Paul Holliday 040719

I've had this system, for a couple of months, now. It is really a good one. The sound quality is superb, there is no distortion, in the 200watts of speaker power. I was disappointed that it does not have a dual cassette player/recorder, but the Pc USB feature, more than compensates. The only other thing was the remote control, it has no number pad, so you have to go forward, or back, if you don't want to go in disc order, or you don't want to program. This is an excellent bargain, especially when compared to similar products available, and there aren't many, with these features.

The nature sounds on this item were not very good. There was no was to adjust the volume on these sounds and the bird sound would wake the dead and scare them back to life.

This radio did a remarkable job in waking me up to the sounds of nature. It was a great buy and I recommend it 4 thumbs up.

I was looking for an alarm clock that would wake me up gently to nature sounds and this one is great. There are three sounds you can use: ocean, running brook, or birds. One previous reviewer thought the birds noise was too loud. I would say it is the loudest of the nature sounds but in no means does it scare me awake, like a true alarm would. It is easy to program and hasnt failed to wake me every morning on time since I bought it. I good buy for your money.

Perhaps longer...at least the worst in recent memory. Let's outline the basics

1. The overall design looks like a scale model of a digital billboard you'd use with a model train set - nothing Martha Stewart would allow thrown over her security fence much less invite inside. (Mine as of 5 Feb was White of a somewhat different shape.)

2. The actual display functons..dimmer, etc. are OK. The pain in the touche comes from setting the alarm. (assuming basic time setting is a one-time event - like breaking a bone.) My wife, a nurse, needs different settings and spends much too long next to the bed clicking the damn clock to get 20hrs past the last setting...

3. The Coupe de Grais is the GD alarm itself. You have the basic NORAD buzzer calling the pilots to defend the homeland - loud enough for two, non-connected rooms. (no dimmer here!)

And then the perhaps the Enron deal of the whole thing: the flipping sounds of nature. Perhaps recorded before man walked upright with technology developed during the period.
Ever listed to a crystal set? ...trust me it sounds better than this.

Summary: This is a real piece of S.... not deserving a slot in Amazon. I see this as a great item for yard sales in areas without power, as a fund rasing device for the Taliban Relief Fund, or to use as a testing device for mental patients ready for release - it comes with a 3lb. hammer to go with it. (the test of how sick they still are depends upon how long it takes them to 'kill the clock'.)

I didn't return it because we'll put it in a guest room especially when someone comes who we don't wish to stay too long. Good hunting - look elsewhere.

...The color is very nice, but it is definitely a lot lighter than in the picture. I would have preferred that the snooze button was either larger or a different shape than the other buttons to make it easier to find while I was still "half asleep." The nature sounds are a good way of adding variety to your alarm...but after some time they would get tiring because they don't sound extremely natural. The display can be somewhat difficult to read at certain angles since the numbers are facing you at a slanted angle. The quality of the radio feature is decent, but don't expect anything spectacular. This alarm clock does the job for me...I have woken up each time the alarm went off. This alarm is loud enough for most people, but, if you are the type who needs an extremely loud alarm to wake up, it would be best to look elsewhere.

this item is perfect no complaints at all