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DAB / FM RDS digital clock radio with instant record
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Technical Details
- FM/DAB wavebands- Large analogue clock
- Automatic clock set
- Instant record to SD card
- PausePlus and rewind functions
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By A. Redfern (West Yorkshire)
Good quality finish and sound. Great analogue clock, though (as expected) it is quite large. More features than I'm likely to need. Easy to set up, though a little bit fiddly, e.g. if you want to cancel the alarm before it goes off so as not to wake your partner. Per other reviews it is very bright even on it's one dimmed setting, doesn't overly bother me but I don't understand why they didn't design it with a very dim setting - this could still be seen easily at night and in the day the analogue clock is so large you don't need any light. A shame, as it is too bright for my wife's taste it will get demoted to the spare room.
By L. E. Waters (UK)
Due to the relatively high price for an alarm I was not sure whether to buy this item - so glad I did. The sound quality is good and I find it easy to use especially as the instruction booklet seems to make sense.
By P. Law (UK)
Good features as already documented by other reviewers, must disagree with the 'buzzer not loud enough' It starts quietly and builds to a max volume set by a concealed knob to quite acceptable level for me and also changes tonal pattern every 20 secs or so to keep you alert.
My main criticism is it has no non-volatile memory therefore a power cut looses all your saved stations and alarms - annoying. Why not use the SD card to store settings Mr Roberts if you must penny pinch on no internal flash memory.
The SD card playback only 'sees' files in the root folder so all your files are bundled together with no chance of putting them into separate album folders.
And finally the most annoying feature is toggling through DAB-FM-SD-Aux functions the SD option always hangs for 4 to 5 secs each time as it scans the SD card which is frustrating as you then over press and the loop overshoots what you want then it hangs again next time around.
All the above niggles could be sorted by firmware changes please consider Mr Roberts it would make your good product GREAT.
By C. Yeadon (Redditch)
The basic function of this item is a clock radio/alarm so I was very disappointed to find that it doesn't have an alarm skip facility. This means that if you have a day off & want a lie in you have two options a) Wait for the alarm to go off & cancel it or b)The previous evening go through alarm settings which is four or five key presses to turn the alarm off. Then the next day you have to remember to do it all again to turn it back on. I did Email Roberts but just got the reply "It is unfortunate but our products do not have the skip function you require" so in that respect it is not a very user friendly item.
However I was impressed with it's other features which have been documented previously.
For a clock radio the sound is quite good.
I live in a poor reception area but still managed to tune into about 20 DAB stations with a full signal strength.
By Cod (UK)
I have been unsure about how to rate this item as some of the "faults" are subjective. I have been looking for a DAB Radio Alarm Clock as I like Radio 7, my personal requirements are 1. at least two Alarms one with a very loud buzzer/Bleeper - I tend to be half awake through the first alarm and then get up quickly when the buzzer goes off.
This Clock has many excellent functions but the buzzer is not even as loud as a quiet mobile phone, therefore as it would never have woken me up. I therefore had to return it. I will point out that the Clock does have a lot of alarm functions if you are Ok without a buzzer.
2. I always set my alarm clock 10 minutes fast - this is to scare myself into jumping out of bed when the bleeper goes. This was not possible with this DAB radio and I have a nasty feeling that it is true with all DAB radio Alarm Clocks because they cleverly keep perfect time. If anyone could confirm this I would be grateful
Lastly a minor point -I was also looking forward to the pretty blue light in the picture but in the "flesh" the light was a sort of dull grey - disappointing. (By the way you can now dim the light if it too bright as mentioned in earlier reviews).
I found it a little difficult at first to set the alarm but re- read the instructions and got it the 2nd time. It was also larger then I had expected.
I did not get as far as checking out recording facilities
Overall I think this is probably a very good system. However if you need a loud buzzer, like to keep the clock fast and have a penchant for pretty blue lights you may not find it your ideal system
Otherwise it looks great.
I have given 3 stars - because an alarm clock should be loud enough to wake you up and because I felt that the picture was misleading.
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