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I bought this from a store display and didn't read any reviews beforehand or I wouldn't have bought it. I bought this for my baby's room for the clock and to play his bedtime music in the CD player. CD player stopped working after 4 months. Scrap metal now. Don't waste your money. Spend a few more dollars for a different manufacturer. I'm going to.

Pros: Worked great when I first bought it.
Cons: Cell phones within 25ft send it into a buzzing fit, whether the radio is on or off.
CD player stopped working.
Buttons stopped working. Had to unplug it to turn it off or had to wait for whenever it was ready to turn back on.

Advice: There are a lot of radio/CD alarm clocks in the sea, don't bother catching this one.

At the store, I was concerned that the buttons were too hard to push and complicated to set, but I decided to give this product a try because I sleep through my other alarm clock and the $30 price seemed alright for the CD feature. I liked the curved sleek shape of this unit (unlike so many I looked at) and that it's hard to accidentally reset the time in your sleep. :-) The built in buzzer alarm was a pretty good sound, insistent while pleasant...mornings are hard enough!

I looked forward to testing the speaker quality with one of my own CDs instead of relying on the store's radio reception, though the speakers sounded alright in the store. Unfortunately, I was very disappointed to get the unit home and discover that the CD Player did not work, straight out of the box. After reading the other reviews here, I think I'll be trying a different product instead of taking the same risk again with this one.

I bought this to replace a 15-year old CD clock radio that (for $150!) did two things - it let me fall asleep to music and wake up to an alarm. 15 years later, Emerson releases a product that cannot even do this. You can choose to EITHER fall asleep to music OR wake up to an alarm, but you cannot do both! After hooking it up and reading the manual, I took it right back to the store. Who designs this stuff?

This product is garbage. Nothing but static on the radio. I bought it to replace a very old Emerson that I found at work in the trash (the alarm on the old one didn't work). Side by side, the old one, which doesn't have an fm radio "tail", has a clear sound, while the new one, no matter how I move the antennae, gets nothing but poor quality static. A real disappointment. You'd think they would have perfected the technology by now. This one's going back to the store.