Timex T300B Digital Tuning Clock Radio with Nature Sounds

• Wake to AM/FM radio, buzzer, or 4 nature sounds
• Triple-alarm system
• Digital AM/FM radio
• 18 preset station memories, 12 FM and 6 AM
• Amber-glow LCD screen with backlight

I don't know why everyone is having such a hard time using the clock, I'm not Bob Vila, but after reading a few pages in the manual, the clock was very easy to program.

I prefer to wake up to the babbling brook sound (even though it sounds more like an aviary than a brook) and I love the fact that you can go to sleep with one radio station on at a certain volume and wake up with a different station on at a different volume. The digital tuner works great, I always had a hard time getting "dial radio" reception on my old, clock radio but the tuner on the Timex is superb. The sound quality of the speaker is nice. I agree with another reviewer-the ocean and the wind sound very . . . how do you say . . . creepy, like something you'd hear in a bad Dr. Who episode.

THE BIGGEST DRAWBACK: The display is way too bright. I'm convinced that it's screwing up my melatonin production! There are three settings for the brightness, 1) forest fire 2) day at the beach or 3) staring at the sun. And the color of the display is very annoying. Perhaps if it was tinted blue instead of orange it may be a little more soothing (like an alien ship stopping by my room in the middle of the night rather than the feeling that you get if you left every light on in the house before you hit the sack).

THE BEST FEATURE: Definitely, the alarm options. I haven't slept through my alarm yet (something that I consistently did in the past with my old Panasonic clock radio).

WOULD BE SWELL IF THEY COULD...: Change the display and had some better "nature sounds" or added a Zen chime.

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I am happy with this alarm clock. Period. It has some awesome features that I haven't seen on any other alarm clock. It also has some less useful features, but even if these were magically eliminated, you would still be left with a great clock.

UNIQUE and terrific features: 1. Sleep function: 90/60/30/15 min countdown at Normal/Low/Very Low volume. Here's the best part: the volume control on the side is over-ridden by the 3 sound levels. So if you want to fall asleep to low volume, the wake to radio alarm is at normal volume. (I don't know what Denys was talking about in previous review) Also, it can be a completely different station than the one you fell asleep to. 2. 3 alarms: radio or buzzer or nature or any combo. Easy to set a sort of progressive wake sequence: 1st alarm nature sound, then later radio, then last brain-splitting beeping. (see drawbacks below) 3. digital tuner. Try to find this feature in another clock for this price. Great reception. 12 FM presets (lots), plus 6 AM.

Other good features: decent sound from single speaker, three light levels from backlit display (though I would have preferred Indiglo), date on display, unlike others here I found it to be very easy to set all features "Buzzer" very much resembles the "beep" of a Timex watch, but much louder. The rhythm of the beeping increases every 10 sec or so. I'm a deep sleeper, and this works well.

DRAWBACKS (that would not keep me from buying this clock again, but why I gave it 4/5): 1. buttons a bit cheap feeling... whadya want for this price 2. clock/alarm set is forward only (bad), although you set hour/min separately (good). My last alarm clock had fast/slow, and you had to count around the clock to set something earlier this drove me crazy. How hard could it have been to have up/down buttons? And there are already tuner up/down buttons there! 3. I was hoping (but not really expecting) that there was a bit more flexibility with the 3 alarms: ie. possible to set buzzer for all 3. Alas, the 3 alarms are one each of radio/buzzer/nature. 4. Nature sounds. All resemble white noise, as if recorded with a bad microphone. Not great for relaxing prior to sleep. However, surprisingly unobtrusive way to wake up in morning. 5. Backlit display on the lowest level is still a bit bright after your eyes have adjusted to dark.

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This clock radio has great radio sound (thats why I bought it). However, the buttons are way too small and there are too many of them so changing the alarm is too complicated. I am never sure if I have set it correctly. The time is large enough but the backround color is strange looking in a dark room. Also, it is difficult to see if the alarm is set while I am in bed.

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I bought this clock and tried to use it without reading the operating manual. BIG MISTAKE! Whatever logic there is to the labels of these buttons and what they do is not clear to me. And NEVER try to change ANYTHING in the dark. It is actually easier to change the time than to change the alarm settings. But, after getting used to the buttons, I still could not get used to the sounds. I don't know what planet they used as a model for the ocean sounds but it wasn't Earth. The waves crash on the shores at least TWICE as fast as real life. Instead of being relaxing, it's actually stressful. The only sound that doesn't play at light speed is Forest. By the way, the manual mentions casually on page 14 that the volume control for the radio also controls the sounds level. Late for work that day!The good things about this clock are its two-level lighted face and the fact that each alarm type can be set independently and all three can be used at different times. I don't recommend this clock because it's too much hassle for so little return. Two coworkers overheard me complaining a few days back and they mentioned that they have the same clock and the same problems. Seems this was a popular seller but not a popular item to own.

When I received this clock radio I was pleased by its size and general arrangement. The price was right. It took a little doing to get everything set up but not too bad.

On the plus side is the digital radio tuning and the presets much better than an analog dial. The radio sounds ok. I did not have the unit long enough for an in-depth analysis of the radio.

But the first night using this clock radio destroyed any illusions that I might have had as to keeping the thing.

First of all, the display, even at its dimmest, was still a night light much too bright. And in the daytime I could not see the time on the display from further that a few feet away. In the future I will avoid all LCD displays and, instead, look for a large red or green LED display.

Second of all, the "natural" sounds were anything but relaxing. I had figured that this would be ideal for lulling me to sleep. But of the four, the Brook, Forrest, and Wind were very obtrusive and annoying. The Brook starts out with an explosive blast of bird chatter that is more akin to several large parrots fighting than anything else. The Ocean sound was a little better but of such a short duration that the repetition of the short sound byte rapidly became annoying. It sounded much like a record that was skipping and repeating itself. I had to turn it off as there would be no lulling off to sleep with these sounds.

I just cannot recommend this product.