Clock Reviews

I got this item for christmas a few years ago and from the begining the CD player has not worked, It will start to play and then about 6 minutes into the CD it will stop.
The only thing this alarm clock is good for is the beeping alarm. Its just and expensive alarm clock. Look elsewhere if you want to wake up to your favorite CD. This doesn't cut it.

I bought the weather station but I have a few problems as explained below:

1. The outdoor temp sensor is inacurate, over reads by 5-7 Deg C.
2. Indoor temp over reads by 3-4 deg C.
3. The outdoor humidity sensor is highly inacurate, way out.
4. I have yet to get another devise to check the acurracy of the wind speed.
5. At times the outdoor sensor switches itself off for a duration of 30 - 40 min for some unknown reasons, I cannot find out why.
6. The power supply conector don't have a good contact to the main unit.

They should make this things more accurate and reliable then just the good looks.

Doesn't keep time well, in fact we must reset ours once per week. No online support available.

The reception on both AM and FM stations was very poor. The digital tuner has rotary controls, and they are very touchy. It was difficult to dial in a specific station frequency. There are no presets. When switching between AM and FM bands, the radio does not return to the previously tuned station on that band.

This clock radio has it all... almost. The Atomic clock synched right up, the sound is quite good, I like the "Nap" feature and the ability to set two alarms to two different times on each different day of the week is cool.

So, I set it all up and put in my bedroom and when it got dark I realized the radio was useless to me - no matter how you set the backlighting brightness display you have to get right on top of the clock to read the display. So trying to set the nap timer or the sleep timer or change the alarm settings, after dark, becomes almost impossible. When you turn up the brightness the numerals just stay the same and the backlighting just gets brighter and glares in your face.

The manual leaves a bit to be desired too and just ignores features like backup (which it seems to have because when you disconnect from power the clock continues to display and the setting are saved; I just have no idea how long and if that feature is something I can count on).

Bottom line is I would surely keep the clock if I could only read it at night.... but I can't; so back it goes. Too bad.

I placed the order for this on May 6, 2004. It is supposed to be shipped in 1 or 2 days. This is totally FALSE. I think the Amazon.com should list the actual ship date which is 7-13 days.

I will review the product, when I finally get it, soon I hope.

I WISH I HAD NEVER BOUGHT THIS RADIO. TO TURN OFF THE ALARM YOU HAVE TO PUSH 2 BUTTONS AT THE SAME TIME. DOING THIS WHEN YOU ARE HALF ASLEEP IS NOT AN EASY TASK AND WE BOTH END UP AWAKE BY THE TIME IT GETS TURNED OFF.

It worked alright for less than a week, and then one morning I woke up to the sound of my CD spinning very fast and scratching against the sides of the CD player. After that, the CD player stopped working altogether.

Even if it doesn't break, you still get what you pay for. It's dual alarm, but only one can be "wake to CD," and the sound quality isn't very good either.

Also, contrary to the Amazon review, I'm fairly sure there's no way to set the alarm for anything less than 7 days (without turning it off manually).

The idea of a [$] CD alarm clock is nice, but I would recommend spending [$] more for an infinitely better one