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Summary: Compact but not for traveling
Review: This clock radio has the expected features:snooze button, wake to alarm,to music,to sound of choice,timer to fall asleep to music or to sound. The sounds quality is not good; fair to poor. I like rain and ocean best. Radio quality is good on am and fm; I like the telescoping antenna which gives the compact unit a feel like a radio-remote control device. There is a removable piece on the back so unit can stand upright or lie flat. Only the clock will run on battery so the power cord is needed for radio and sound making the total weight impractical for an overnight bag. There is an area for AA batteries, but no mention in the literature as to why. Instructions are for AAA batteries and power cord only.
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Summary: Bad button design and unreliable tuner
Review: This clock radio suffers from several problems.
1) The button design is such that you must grab the radio to keep it from moving away from you when you try to hit the on/off and snooze buttons.
2) The tuner gets dust in it very quickly and it becomes very hard to tune to a particular station...ditto on the volume control.
3) The actual clock has small digits and poor lighting. This makes it hard to see in the middle of the night.
On a personal note the nature sounds didn't wake me up anyway.
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Summary: Not all I was expecting
Review: This is an odd item. I got it for the sounds (to cover noise in my bedroom), but they are less than I was expecting. For example the sounds repeat every 5 seconds. Once I heard the pattern, it started to be annoying in stead of relaxing. Also it requires 2 AAA batteries EVEN WHEN you have it plugged into the AC outlet. This wasn't what I was looking for.
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Summary: Good theory, quality not there
Review: This is the second Homedics Sound Machine I've purchased. The other one broke after a week so I got this because of all the features. It's in my babies room. All the sounds sound very similar and not that soothing. The stand has already broken. We also couldn't figure out how to get the sound to stop coming on at a certain time everyday - not easy to get all the features to work (or stop working) unless you can find your directions. All in all, it's ok but I prefer my stripped down Conair by leaps and bounds. In all fairness, it's difficult to find a sound machine you really like; my parents have been looking for one forever.Additional note: The sound feature has stopped working after about a year of use.
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Summary: I bought THREE of them, all of them broke!
Review: This is very cheaply made and really a defective product. I bought this to help my baby sleep with repetitive sounds and to block out the dog barking and other children in the house. The volume control was very sketchy, it would be quite and then cut-out and then be loud and then cut out again. After only a month it stopped working completely. I took it back to the store and exchanged it. The same thing happened two more times with two different units. I finally gave up and returned it for good!
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Summary: I bought THREE of them, all of them broke!
Review: This is very cheaply made and really a defective product. I bought this to help my baby sleep with repetitive sounds and to block out the dog barking and other children in the house. The volume control was very sketchy, it would be quite and then cut-out and then be loud and then cut out again. After only a month it stopped working completely. I took it back to the store and exchanged it. The same thing happened two more times with two different units. I finally gave up and returned it for good!
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Summary: Not up to the task
Review: Unfortunately, this product was not a good option for blocking out outside noise so our little one could sleep. Although it should stay on contiuously through the night (if set to) it would turn off sporadically causing disruptions in sleep rather than a good night's rest. Also the clock is poorly lighted for viewing in the dark.
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Summary: Stopped working after only a few days
Review: We bought this to try and help our baby sleep - friends told us white noise might help. Well, it seemed to help our baby to sleep for the few days that it worked. Only 4 days later, none of the white noise functions work anymore. Tried changing the batteries, that didn't help. We are hoping to return this item to the retail store where it was bought, since the $5 handling fee for the warranty is too much to spend on a $20 dollar item.
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Summary: It works great...for a little while.
Review: When I first got my Sounds Spa, it was great...for about two weeks. After those two weeks of use, however, the sounds just stopped working. The clock worked, but the rest didn't. My guess is that it's not meant to be played continuously for the entire night, which is what I did. Maybe if you just use it for 30 or so minutes at a time, it would last longer.
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Summary: Not bad
Review: While it's not the best out there, you can't beat the price. My problems are that the screen that shows the time is small and not very bright so trying to read it at any type of angle or at night is difficult. The sounds are pleasant but tend to sound similar to each other. I like the buzzer alarm because it's more of a beeping and not one of those loud obnoxious grating sounds most alarms use. All in all, it's a good product for the low price.
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