Sony ICF-C773 Dream Machine AM/FM Clock Radio With Fifteen Station Presets
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List Price: $69.99
Features
• Illuminated sides add mood lighting and a light-enhanced alarm wake-up
• Dual alarm settings, extendable snooze, nap timer
• Wake to radio or buzzer alarm
• 15 radio station presets
• Adjustable display brightness |
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Sony ICF-C773 Dream Machine AM/FM Clock Radio With Fifteen Station Presets description
Set the mood and wake up in style with the Sony ICF-C773 AM/FM Clock Radio. The illuminated sides offer a calming effect when you're tuning your circadian rhythms-- you can even set the illumination level to your liking. A sleek design makes a fashion statement, while the backlit LCD display makes it easy to tune your favorite station or set the alarm. Fifteen station presets make it easy to find your stations fast, while a dual alarm function lets you set multiple wake times. You can even extend your snooze time with the variable snooze setting, or use the nap timer when you want to catch some Z's during the day. |
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Sony ICF-C773 Dream Machine AM/FM Clock Radio With Fifteen Station Presets Customer Reviews
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I'm so glad I ignored the negative reviews!
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I was extremely trepidatious about buying this product after reading some of the reviews here on Amazon, but the recent price drop to forty-some dollars was enough to sway me, and I went ahead and ordered it. And I'm so glad I did!
I'll agree that sixty dollars was a bit steep for this clock, but at the lower price-point, I'm really thrilled with what I got. Whoever says this thing is ugly when you see it in person is talking out of their [...]. The unit is small, sleek, and very handsome. The sound quality is surprisingly robust for a one-speaker radio, and the unit's power cord doubles as an FM antenna, so the reception is amazing. It's true that the display is difficult to read in direct sunlight unless you set the clock to its brightest setting, but that's true of any digital display, including the one on the last clock radio I had, which was twice the price. On my own nightstand, I find this display easy to read from any angle, at any time of day, when set to medium brightness, and its still subtle enough not bother me at night. The button layout is exactly the way I want it, with the buttons you're apt to be fumbling for in the dark large and on the top, and ones you don't want to accidentally press while fumbling tucked away on the back. It's also untrue that the button to reset the alarm is on the back next to the daylight savings time button; the reset button is on the top of the machine, just behind the snooze but too much smaller than the snooze to be mistaken.
As for the complaint that this clock doesn't automatically set itself, give me a break! How often do you really have to set your clocks, anyway? Having a self-setting alarm clock was the whole reason I had to get a new one in the first place; now that they've changed the dates for daylight savings time, I kept having to manually re-set my clock every time the thing decided to automatically set itself again. And before you go shouting bloody murder about the fact that this Sony clock radio doesn't have any place to stick a 9-volt battery, you should be made aware that, even in a power outage, all of the more tedious-to-set functions, like the radio presets, remain saved, and the clock DOES have an internal system that saves ALL data, including the time, in the event of brief power outages (lasting less than a minute). That means the only time you would really need a 9-volt backup, anyway, is in the event of a long-lasting outage, and in my own experience those 9-volts tend to go dead so quickly, in the event of one of those kinds of outages you wind up late for work, anyway.
All in all, I'm really pleased with this machine. It's sleek and versatile. Just make sure you read the instructions so you'll be aware of all its available functions, and bear in mind that it doesn't have the option of installing a 9-volt backup battery for long-lasting power outages, and I think you'll be really pleased. |
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