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Don't have good reception and sound, and lost easy the programation.I feel bad with the buy. Is very bad product.
I needed a really good clock radio with a CD player and a digital FM tuner. I admit to being a little disappointed that the Gentle Wake feature only works with the buzzer and not with the radio or CD alarms. One thing I really like is that I can fall asleep to a soothing CD while having the alarm set to the radio. I'll probably never use all of the features on this clock radio. This set does a lot of things really well. If you're listening to a semi-weak signal, you'll have to position the antenna a few different ways to find your station. It was worth the money.
It's a nice compact unit with a relatively small "footprint," and the sound quality is quite good for this size model. You can set different alarms with different wake modes (radio, buzzer, CD) for each person. I have experimented with the various alarm settings, and they work well. You'll hear a little CD spinning sound when playing CDs, but it's pretty minimal and I have to admit I didn't notice it after the first moment or two. I found the directions to be simple and user-friendly.
It has a lot of them -- TV band, weather band, 2 FM bands, AM band, sleep, nap, snooze, gentle wake, select CD wake track, and so on. This unit was pretty easy to set up. The radio reception is good but less than great. This fills the bill beautifully. It does play CD-Rs as advertised and plays them very well.
It is bigger than expected but I still LOVE it. The sound is great and does everything promised. This Clock radio is awesome. I love waking up to a gentle song from a CD rather than news from a static filled radio station.
But all in all, since I could not find another on the market with the features I require, I like it. And I've yet to find the weather feature. While this product had all the features I wanted (plug in, alarm clock, radio, CD player with earplugs) and the sound is great - it's not exactly user friendly (I've had it two months now and still have not mastered how to turn the alarm off for the weekends) and the tiny labels on the machine require me to use a magnifying glass. Also, since it is tall, it is not quite as unobtrusive on my night table as I would like.
Listen to AM. In my case, we have the radio in the bathroom and it's just great. Wake to buzzer. And more.The price you pay for all these options is that the buttons are many and tiny. This is one ambitious clock radio.
Well, I can't figure out how Sony could have avoided that problem and still produced a small footprint. Wake gently. So I say if you demand the functions you should be willing to do what it takes to use them.I can see that folks who are bleary in the morning might have problems making the best use of every control. But I don't often take naps in the tub. Listen to FM. Listen to weather.
About the only thing it can't do is make the coffee. Wake abruptly. With digital tuning and enhanced bass. Wake to radio. Listen to TV (for now - the TV signals will cease when TV goes all-digital). Let you go to sleep.
Wake to CD. Let you nap.
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