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When this thing works it is great, but it is so damn hard to program. Even when you are stone sober and have the instructions right in front of you it can be frustrating as all get out just to set the $#%#^% alarm to go off. When you do get it right you know it, but you need a bread crumb trail to remember how you did it. The English instructions are virtually useless. The features are good, and I can't say that any of the competing products are any better, but my wife and I are relatively intelligent people, and we have a heck of a time just trying to program the stupid thing to set off the alarms. There is no reasonable explanation for why this thing couldn't be a million times easier. It's a clock radio alarm for Pete's sake, not a rocket launcher. It does work though, when you press the right buttons in the right order [whatever it is], but you'll lose hair and patience in the process. That having been said, the light is awfully bright, even when it is on the lowest setting. This seems to be a complaint with all the competing products as well. I don't know why they design them this way, when they are obviously meant for a SLEEPING environment! How hard can it be to design a CD Clock Radio that is easy to program and that doesn't serve as a table lamp? Well made product, but very frustrating.

There are three things wrong with this item. First is the brightness of the display that other reviewers have noted. The other is that it is not at all easy to set. It involves a complex series of holding buttons down, etc. Very counter-intuitive, I thought.

The biggest problem, however, is that the alarm on mine will not stay on. To turn on the alarm, the instructions say to hold the alarm button, and the LCD read-out will stay the same. Well I did that, but after five minutes, the alarm was no longer showing on the LCD. The sound, etc., is good, and maybe I bought a lemon, but still it's no good if it won't do the one thing I need it to do.

This is a very poor item. The CD stopped working. It 's hard to get a good FM signal most of the time. The stereo output is very strange to say the least. Look at a different player...you be much happier.

I bought this item thinking it would be a great office sound system, which I could use to listen to CD music and the radio in my limited space. It is the worst electronic product I have ever purchased.

When you listen to the radio there is constant background static which didn't go away when I tried to move around the atena or move the actual radio away from my desk (since I thought it might be computer interference). What is worse is that even when I played CDs you could hear the static sound in the background.

In addition to the static problem, the sound just isn't that great.
I was thoroughly disappointed!

First,very poor sound.Had old GE that had better sound. Second
Hard to set up and use. Cd player skips on all cd,s. There are
better ones to pick from. boston for one