Sangean RCR-1 Advanced Atomic Clock Radio - Silver
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Customer Review: Great idea; badly executed
Summary: 2 Stars
I love the features of this unit, what with the auto-setting feature and the analog clock face and all the different alarm settings and so on. I even like the "Humane Waking System."
But after only a few days, the pretty blue light you see in the pictures went out and wouldn't come back on, so that in the dark we had to shine a light at the clock to see what time it was. That was aggravating but not fatal.
However, recently the self-setting feature has gone haywire as well. The clock still sets itself, but it always sets itself between 78 and 79 minutes fast. There's no way you can set the time manually and turn off the auto-set, so we completely ignore the time on the clock face now and set our alarms for an hour and 18 minutes before when they're supposed to go off...and we have another old clock radio right next to this one that actually keeps time (although we have to set it manually) and whose digits we can see.
We've had ours for a little over a year.
Customer Review: not completely reliable
Summary: 2 Stars
My husband bought me this clock radio as a gift. Not long after using it, the blue backlight stopped working. We fiddled with the brightness controls, but nothing helped. It just stopped. I resigned myself to not being able to see the time in the middle of the night. Then recently, the time itself stopped working correctly. The analog time and the digital time showed two different times, neither correct! The digital clock began running way behind time (not good if you want an alarm to go off on time). I was just about to junk it and order a new clock radio when I went in to take a look at it one more time, and both clocks are now reset to the correct time and seem to be functioning... after more than a week of not working right! Go figure. If you buy this, check it frequently to make sure it is still functioning correctly. Maybe I just got a lemon.
Customer Review: serious lack
Summary: 2 Stars
I got this clock a week ago and I am observing it's performance closely. It is indeed an atomic clock; however, it's digital numbers don't light up. This for me is a very sad oversight of the engineers. I place the clock 7 feet away from the head of the bed on top of a 4-foot drawer stand and I cannot see the digital time of the clock. Even the analog clock is not clear; because of everyone's familiarity with the analog clock's hour numbers in circular design, one can see the position of the hour and minute hands and can "surmise" the current hour and minutes. It just blows my mind that the electronic designers of this clock have seemed to think of and worked on its many good features and weren't convinced that making illuminated digital numbers and figures is quite important.Customer Review: Not so great
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this item a couple of years ago, and it seemed great according to the description. But it is almost maddeningly complicated to set up for the alarm functions. In fact, after I finally got it to wake me up I quit trying to change radio stations or volume levels. Also, it has a real hard time synchronizing with the time signal from Colorado. I have a small wristwatch very near this clock and the wristwatch nas no problem getting the correct time, but this thing, with its big antenna seems to have a terrible problem recieving the time signal.Customer Review: Doesn't live up to the Description
Summary: 2 Stars
The atomic clock signal is weak and not near as stong as two other recent purchases from Seiko. The instructions are terrible and not very helpful. Making any kind of adjustments requires the reader to carefully follow all the steps as outlined which seems fine except just turning off the alarm in case you get up early or just want to cancel it is a major pain. The humane waking is system is overrated. Yes, it gets louder in increments but very quickly and not as slow as described. I would consider another alternative.