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I've had this for a few years and it has a few good features. For example, you can wake up to CD, radio, or buzzer, and you can pick the song you want to wake up to. Also, the snooze timer can be changed to however long you want and it is not just a standard time.

There are a few faults too. The most annoying thing about it is that it is VERY sensitive to cell phones. It clicks and buzzes when anyone nearby's cell phone is about to ring. It gets very irritating living in a dorm full of cell phones going off. It also only has one alarm setting, which is okay, but if you want to take an afternoon nap, you have to change your morning alarm.

My recommendation is to continue to shop around before you settle on this clock.

This is the worst piece of electronics I have ever purchased. The CD player failed within 2 weeks, and the sound quality is horrible. The person who designed this garbage should be forced to live in a small, dark room with nothing but this piece of junk for entertainment. I will never buy another electronic item from Emerson again!

Well, I decided I wanted an alarm clock with the option to wake up to a cd, so I thought this one looked good. Got it home, had no problems setting the times on it, then got to the part of the instructions where you set the cd alarm function... thats where I discovered that you can't program the stupid thing to wake you up to any song on the cd, it will only play the first track on the disc for the alarm function. Ridiculous.
Also, I did have a chance to listen to a song on it; the sound quality was not so great, but I figured hey, its an alarm clock, I'm not planning on using it to listen to music much on it, thats what my stereo is for. Anyway, I returned it less than 24 hours later.

The speakers on this unit sound tinny and the radio reception is not good. Spend a little extra money and get the Sony version instead--it will be worth it.

Heed the other reviewers opinions who rated this unit low. One star is too much, if I could rate this a ZERO I would. This unit was obviously designed and assembled by MORONS! Here is a list of features: lousy control layout, flakey operation, useless battery backup function, and poor stereo sound - I can get better sound quality from the drive-thru speaker at Mickey Dee's!!! Finally, to top it off the CD laser quit working after the PALTRY 90 day warrantee expired, so guess what - I'M OUT OF LUCK!!! I guess they make these things to self destruct after 3 months and expect that we are stupid enough to buy another one from them. Save your money and don't get ripped off by this company who cranks out sub-standard junk. This will be going in the trash tomorrow! I will make a note to NEVER BUY A PRODUCT FROM EMERSON AGAIN.