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This radio literally blows the Bose Wave out of the water. The quality of the sound that this radio puts out is unbelieveable. I can't understand how Cambridge can sell this for so much less than Bose. If you are looking for a very high-quality radio, don't waste your time with anything other than the Soundworks.

Sound quality very good. I own other high end radios such as the Boston Acoustics Recepter and the Tivoli Model One. The cambridge sounds as good as the others with the added benefit of tone controls and a remote. It falls way short though with its tuner. I have a lot of difficulty pulling in anything but the strongest stations, even after adding a large aftermarket antenna. The tuner is so poor I rarely use this radio. If you want to pull in weak stations go with the Tivoli.

Bought the cambridge soundworks radio through amazon.com who get's it's through J&R Music World. After getting the radio, two days later the indicator light that tells you if the alarm is on stops working. Can't tell if the alarm is on by looking at the radio. This sucks. After paying 213.78 what do i do ? Send it back? Who knows, wait for 2 months to get it back. All for one tiny little light. I,ve decided to live with it . Sounds good, but don't know if the alarm is on by looking at the radio. I am not going through the trouble to send this back. I rate this radio a 2 star.

Don't buy this clock radio unless you have seen it in a darkened room and are okay with it. My wife and I have owned digital alarm clocks since the early 1970's and neither of us have had a clock that is so amazingly luminescent, but practically unreadable as this one. Our bedroom is now lit up as if we left the TV set and Christmas tree lights on and yet we can't read the numerals without approaching the clock to within a few inches. Yes, the sound quality is excellent. The buttons, however, are incredibly small with no differentiation in size or texture for preset stations, power, tuning, time adjustment or anything else (a real problem in the dark, especially since the time display causes shadows across everything else). Also, there isn't any way to program different workweek and weekend settings (there are simple Alarm 1 and Alarm 2 buttons, but nothing more sophisticated). This clock radio is a terrible waste of money.

This is a very good radio. I didn't have the opportunity to carefully compare to other offerings of Bose, Boston Acoustics, Tivoli, etc. because I received this as a birthday gift from my wife. The sound is not as pristine as the Bose Wave radio which I have heard at the mall, but it is quite good. The bass boost subwoofer works great, reception is great, the aux input on the front connects to my iPod. I couldn't be happier. It gets an A for ease of use and the credit card sized remote is appreciated.