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I wanted soemthing simple for my litte studio- this had everything I wanted. Radio plus CD, Sleep function (you can only set it to 90, 60 or 30 that I know of) Dual alarm, headphone jack...

Manual tuner, but I get pretty good reception considering I'm in a valley. The CD quality is fine, but it would not play a CD I had burned myself. This may be important to some of you folks.

I love a sleep function, the only thing is if you fall asleep to CD, you wake up to one, no big deal for me, but who knows.

The actual player is lighter than in this picture (lighter gray, lighter blue) more attractive in person. And the clock display is neon green (not red like above)

I love how small it is, the top loading is pretty cool. It fits right on my nightstand. Overall a good value for the money, as I did a lot of reaserch.

This is cd/radio/alarm combo, perfect for the office or home. I bought it for my desk and I am please to say that the reception is very good. The building where I work is know for poor reception, but this radio has done very well. I will recommended for people that need a compact system and don't want to spend to much.

Here is my experience with this piece of junk: I bought it and it worked fine for a week. After that, it started to stick after playing two songs on any given CD, playing the same note over and over. I cleaned it, cleaned the CDs, played different CDs, tried anything to make it stop stalling. Finally,after 3 weeks of this, I snapped. I took it outside, threw it to the ground, and spent the next 20 minutes alternately jumping on it and smashing it with a hammer. You could GIVE me the $39.95 and I still wouldn't take it.

I purchased this model from Amazon about a year, and what a disappointment! For the price, I certainly wasn't expecting a top-of-the-line product, but this thing couldn't even perform the basic function of playing a CD -- no matter what the CD, it always skipped, perhaps due to the product's design which plays CDs in an "upright" position. Sound quality and radio reception were also poor. Its only use now is as an alarm clock in a second bedroom. Save your money -- there's better choices available in this price range.

Just received it today. Radio works fine. It is compact and lightweight, which is good for me. But CD player doesn't recognize that there is a CD loaded, and it won't play. Really poor quality!