Homedics Envirascape Sound Spa Alarm Clock Radio
by Homedics
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Customer Review: needs better speaker
Summary: 3 Stars
Works fine, good idea, but when the volume is turned up, the speaker has a lot of distortion. It was cheap, but I would rather have paid a few more dollars for better sound quality.Customer Review: Could have been good
Summary: 2 Stars
I've had the Sound Spa for a couple weeks and there's good and bad to report. The good: The antenna allows it to pick up stations that my old clock radio could not get reliably. Also, the rotary dials used to select the station and volume are faster and more direct than other radios, where the station dial moves a little selector bar through a separate display window and the volume dial has no feedback mechanism to tell you how loud it is set. I also like that the clock uses batteries so that you don't have to reset it if the power goes out. (I live in California, after all.) The radio and nature sounds are what you would expect for $20 -- not great but sufficient to drown out the crazy guy next door who makes chicken sounds all day.
The bad: First, I could not figure out how to turn the alarm off until I emailed Homedics. The little booklet doesn't tell you anything about it. If you do nothing, the alarm will go off at midnight! Homedics replied to my email and I now know that you push the AL Mode button until none of the options (Buzzer, Sound, or Radio) are displayed. But be careful...that's classified information that cannot get into the wrong hands (like customers).
Second, the speaker points out THE BACK of the unit, so my neighbor has an easier time hearing All Things Considered than I do (well, when he isn't clucking and cooing ). Third, forget about checking the time in the dark unless you get up close and personal with it. The LCD display is too faint to be any good. Finally, it's cheaply made. The stand broke as I tried to attach it to the unit.
Customer Review: Short Term Relaxation Long Term Stress
Summary: 2 Stars
*written by my wife* We had an old fashioned alarm clock that woke us up ready to scream, and decided that this clock would be perfect. It took us 20 minutes or so to get it turned on. Right from the bat, the electric cord wouldn't work. Because it can be portable, it has a plug-in style electrical cord, not the standard attached kind. Somehow, it couldn't connect unless you held it a certain way. With a little maneuvering, we got it to connect. Figuring out how to have the alarm work correctly was something else. The clock would only keep time for a short while. Next thing we knew, it would be an hour or so off. The alarm would go off on the clock's time, not our time, or not go off at all, but be accurate. We loved the nature sounds, but when an alarm clock puts you to sleep, and then never wakes you up, there is a problem if you have a job. So... I don't remember if we donated it or just plain threw it away, but it didn't live up to our expectations. A more sturdy design, and a more consistent power source may convince me in the future, but as long as this looks like a dollar store radio for department store cost, it will not have a place in our home.Customer Review: NOT for snooze pushers
Summary: 2 Stars
If you enjoy a gentle, gradual awakening while pushing the snooze button a few times, do not get this clock. Once the alarm goes off and you push snooze, the sound machine part does not automatically come back on, so you go from a reasonably nice sound, to an awful buzzer (whose volume depends on which volume you had the nature sounds volume at), to dead silence. Plus, the angle of the snooze button (on the front rather than the top) makes it hard to easily push with one hand. Most of the buttons are small and hard to use.
If you enjoy waking up with a jolt, this is for you.
A previous reviewer was totally correct about the Wind sound being scary! (I picture being in an Antarctic blizzard or something) The Rain/Waterfall sounds were ok but I didn't like that I could easily pick up on its loop/pattern, which didn't quite make it the inconspicuous "white noise" that it was intended to be.
Customer Review: Can hear radio sounds when sound machine is on
Summary: 2 Stars
I used to love this machine. As time went on, however, when I listen to the "ocean sounds" to fall asleep to, I can hear the noise of a radio station in the background (when the ocean sound lulls every few seconds). Nothing that I have tried to do to fix this problem works (I could handle static, but even if I tune the radio to an AM station with no reception, when I turn on the sound part of the machine, I can still hear someone singing or talking in the background). Currently, I have jammed the radio tuner halfway between AM and FM which worked for about a week until some random station started playing again. Also, if the alarm mode is set to "off," the sound machine will still turn off at whatever time the alarm was last set to (which will wake up the light sleepers among us).