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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 8.0 inches | | Product Width: | 5.0 inches | | Product Height: | 7.0 inches | | Product Weight: | 2.0 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.4 inches | | Package Width: | 8.4 inches | | Package Height: | 6.1 inches | | Package Weight: | 4.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 148 reviews |
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| | Features | 2-alarm CD clock radio with 90-minute sleep timer; auto-set feature adjusts itself, including Daylight Savings and leap yearsAuxiliary audio input accommodates an MP3 player, DVD player, cassette player, or other deviceSleep to radio, CD, nature sounds; wake to radio, CD, nature sounds, or buzzerStereo speakers, CD repeat and random playMeasures 8.1 x 6.7 x 5 inches (W x H x D)
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112 of 113 found the following review helpful:
 MP3, dual Alarm, CD player, what else can you ask for? Apr 05, 2006
By H. Friedman
UPDATE: It has been 3 years since I purchased this product and unfortunately problems have arisen. The dimmer fluctuates every so often but even worse, when you try to set the alarm, the digital displays illumination dims so low that it makes it very difficult to see what time value you are entering. I have not been able to correct this problem and it only gets worse as time goes bye. The radio reception is pretty poor, even with the provided cable antenna. Other than that, everything else works fine. I would give this product 3 stars for durability if I could.
Overall this is a great alarm clock with the exceptions of: the
loud synthtic Nature Sounds and lack of a 5 day week alarm (which is included in
the T307S model)... yes, there is NO 5 day week alarm !!!!
The synthetic Nature sounds are NOT soothing at all and are better as a wakeup call rather
than for falling asleep. These 4 sounds would be much improved if they got rid of the
annoying and loud bird calls and frog calls. If they even put these calls into the
background, then it would be satisfactory... if they removed them entirely, then
it would be fantastic. However, since you have a CD player, I highly recommend
true nature sounds from the people who brought you "A Week in Hawaii" & "A Week in Brazil". The surf
and rainforest sounds are the best and you will calmly fall asleep to this cd in 90
minute sleep mode at half sleep volume. Yup, you have a separate limited volume (3 settings)
control for sleep mode so that it does not affect your alarm volume.
This is NOT a stereo folks, so the speakers are good (but not great) and the fact that you can
attach your mp3 player is a nice bonus, especially for all you ipod owners.
The dimmer is great and there are 3 intensity settings that won't blind you at
night.
It would be great if the buttons were categorized by size or illuminated by
touch, so you could easily select the buttons in the dark.Unfortunately, you
have to guess at it and interestingly enough, the button layout was much better
on the T307S model.
Haven't had any problems with the CD player so far, eventhough it looks pretty flimsy. I do like
the height over depth ratio and think that the vertical CD player is much better compared to a
horizontal cd player, in terms of space
on my nightstand.
The automatic time setting is great especially when you forget about setting
your clock ahead or backwards... this clock does it for you automatically.
Batteries are included.... nice.
**** I give this product a soft 4 stars and would have given it a solid 5 if only the
Nature sounds were revamped and 5 day week was included.
54 of 54 found the following review helpful:
Yes, but it has a headphone jack! Dec 07, 2006
By Michel Avery
I read all the negative reviews posted here, then bought this product with some misgivings because it has something hard to find in CD clock radios--a headphone jack. That's important to me because my spouse likes it quiet at night, and I like background noise, so I use a pillow speaker. My Sony Dream Machine had one, and was a good product, but the time display is too dim and too small for my baby boomer eyes.
This product works for me. True, there is an annoyingly bright, light-up-the-room-in-neon-blue light that comes on whenever a CD, the radio, or nature sounds are playing, but that light is easy to cover--I pasted a piece of construction paper over it. The digital time display itself is perfectly acceptable at the dimmer settings.
I agree with most other reviewers that the nature sounds are unrealistic, overly dramatized, and not at all relaxing. That is a feature I will not be using. The radio reception is better than the Sony's.
116 of 124 found the following review helpful:
No such feature! Dec 18, 2005
By A. Savla
Great product, and solid frame. It doesn't feel cheap. The "Nature Sounds" aren't great, but I didn't buy it to hear low res recordings of nature. I bought it for the fact that it can do a 5-day alarm...saving the weekend for sleeping till double digits. Wrong!
The product description lies! No such feature! I ended up buying this from timexaudio.com, since amazon didn't have it available. The problem was that when I double checked the product description at timex, there were only a few bullet points. When I searched for a manual, the one clock radio that they didn't have a manual for was the T617S. So I trusted amazon's product description. Never again.
Other than that bad experience, I like the sound and the radio reception is fantastic. The MP3 input is just a simple 3.5 mm jack, so you can basically play anything through this.
My recommendation is that if you like everything but the 7/5/2 day feature, go for it.
40 of 40 found the following review helpful:
 Well worth the money Jul 15, 2006
By Katrina728
"katrina728"
After reading many reviews and researching alarm clocks, I purchased this one, even though it got some bad reviews. I swear, I can't buy anything these days without reading the reviews on Amazon first; and there's always someone with something bad to say about every item. Anyway, I digress...here's what I like about it:
- snooze button doubles as a dimmer switch for the LED readout so it's easy to find
- "sleep" function has a separate volume than the alarm function, so you can fall asleep listening to music quietly playing on a CD and not have to worry about the volume being too low to wake you in the morning (there are only 3 or 4 'sleep' volume levels to choose from, but it's still good for me)
- I was wary of the nature sounds, as someone said they were lousy, but I enjoy them and don't notice any particular problem with sound quality
- Like the height to width ratio - you can see the time across the room & over the bed
- I like the LED display, because LCD displays need a backlight which make it hard to read the time & are too bright
- Like that the time is preset & battery is already in the clock when you unpack it; timezone selector is on the back of the clock
- Dual alarm clock is a must. It's really easy to see which (or both) alarm is set. While some clocks only have a red dot to indicate the alarm is set (and who can tell if it's alarm #1 or #2 in the dark?), this clock displays a picture of a bell and a #1 and/or #2 in the bell.
- My only dislike is the blue light that shines from the CD area on the front of the clock anytime you use one of the audio options. If I'm trying to fall asleep to CD or nature sounds, I prop a CD case in front of the unit to block the light.
21 of 21 found the following review helpful:
Overall, very good Apr 29, 2006
By Ralph G. Zimmermann
I recently bought two T617S CD clock radios. One sounded quite good, but the other had a tinny sound so I returned it as defective.
I need white noise at night to drown out other sounds. What I really want is a clock radio with built-in pure white noise. I would think there is demand for that, but nobody seems to make them. The nature sounds are too annoying for me, so I run a CD that has recorded white noise [...], on repeat mode. The manual says that repeat mode only repeats the CD once. However, thankfully it actually runs continuously until turned off. I also have an old Timex T600B CD clock radio that looks like it's an earlier version of the T617S. The CD player on that clock radio stopped working after playing it all night for over a year. I expect that the CD player on the T617S won't last forever either, but what does?
I think the lowest setting on the dimmer works quite well. However, there is a window on the CD player (so you can see it spinning, I guess) that also has a light. This light doesn't dim with the dimmer on the clock. It's way too bright, but it's easy to cover since it isn't needed anyway.
The battery backup was also critical for me, since during the winter we have frequent power failures, sometimes more than once a day and lasting several hours. Amazingly, many if not most clock radios, including a Sony Dream Machine we have, don't have battery backup.
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