Sony ICF-C180COS Radio AM/FM- Dream Machine

• No Power no Problem Alarm system
• Automatic Time Set
• No power no Problem Alarm System to back up Time and Alarms
• Dual Alarms with easy alarm Setting
• Two-Color triple time Display: Green for time, Amber for alarm Times

You would not believe how hard it is to find a decent alarm clock. All I wanted was a alarm clock that shut off automatically on the weekend but the Emerson Research smart set was the only 2\5\7 day setting alarm clock I liked. After buying two of those and having issues with both, one the radio would lose the station over time and not wake you up, two, a brand new one having a bad LED and poor radio reception. Emerson needs to check their quality and then maybe they will have a great product. Yes this Sony has a hard to read display because of the viewing angle but if you have a small table next to the bed it works just fine. The radio pulls in every station and sounds good and loud for the size of the device. The alarms are really easy to set all you do is turn the knob to the desired time. Plus all you have to do is hit one button to shut the alarms off for the weekend or have two new sets of alarms. This thing gives you up to four alarms. If it had a better display I would give it 5 stars.

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I agree the features are great, but two problems:1 the sound is actually worse than you would expect from such a small speaker today; I could live with that, but 2 the clock display is only readable from a very small viewing angle. You see only the amber backlight if the unit is above your line of sight and the same if it's below the very narrow fixed design height which is slightly below level with your eye. I tried all sorts of props and shims to make it readable, but if I moved, the display vanished again. I gave up and returned mine.

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I bought this alarm in large part because of the dual alarm feature. I take the bus to work and on weekends/holidays, which I don't always have off, I need to get up earlier. This alarm not only has two alarms that I can turn on and off. Which means I don't have to change my alarm setting!!!! I can also see that it is set, which reduces the going to sleep paranoia on my part. I love it just for this.

But the weekend setting allows me to have two other alarms available for times I have to wake-up and do things on my days off, rarely actually the weekend. This is a really cool alarm system. And I love waking up to music that will wake me up, radio has never worked, so the melody setting is great as well.

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This is an exceptionally well designed alarm clock. When the alarm is set, an orange window on the face of the clock lights up. This window has the time the alarm is set, so there is no doubt that the alarm is set and the time that it is set for.

This clock radio has the WORST radio reception. It's pointless to have a radio alarm when you wake up to static. It's awful and I wish I never bought it. The light is also too bright (and that's on the low setting). The ONLY thing I like about this clock is that it has two alarms (good if you have a significant other) and it's relatively compact design. Otherwise, I don't like this alarm clock radio at all.