Emerson AM/FM Clock Radio with CD Player and Remote Control - CKD2330 Review

This is such a bad product.I seriously want my money back, but it's not even worth the hassle.Luckily, I decided to use it as my CD player in my bedroom, and not as an alarm clock.I keep this thing all the way across the bedroom from my bed, and I STILL have to drape heavy clothing over it every night in order to be able to sleep, and I am NOT a sensitive sleeper.The display is so freakishly bright, it actually illuminates my entire (rather large) bedroom with it's horrible blue glow.There's some garbage about an "automatic dimmer" in the description of this product, but that is pure bull.It's supposed to dim when the lights go out, but if anything, it actually gets brighter.I cannot imagine how anyone can sleep with this next to their beds.Furthermore, what's the point of the horrifically bright time display if you can't ever read the time unless you're facing it directly face-on, and about an inch from the display?Whoever designed this is an idiot, as the bright blue background almost completely obscures the black numbers that show the time.The colors are too close in tone or brightness for there to be enough contrast to read what the display says.

Another problem, and this one is even "funnier" than the aforementioned: as we speak, my month-old Emerson clock-radio is speeding through the time, literally.It has some weird tick, where, if you use the remote control to control the volume, it affects the minutes part of the time as well as the volume.If you hold down the up or down volume buttons for any amount of time, the minutes start freaking out uncontrollably.For instance, as I write, my clock is going through 11 am over and over and over again at warp speed.It would be funny if I didn't pay for this piece of garbage.

All of that being said, the CD player in my experience is serviceable.Mine plays burned CDs as well as normal ones.The sound quality is decent for such a small player.

If you are thinking of getting this as a clock or alarm, please think carefully: the screwed up volume-time function, the horribly bright display, and the almost complete lack of contrast between the time digits and background make this virtually unuseable as an alarm clock.

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Funai Electric is engaged in the development, manufacture, marketing and distribution of information and communication equipment such as Internet Access Terminal, Computer peripherals, Audio-visual devices, Video, Television, TeleVideos, DVD Players, Home electrical appliances.

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