I was going to just replace this unit after the speaker went bad, until I checked and remembered how expensive it had been.

Speaker blown

And for the record, the speaker was never great.

The speaker recently died, or at least, is in its death throes.

I hadn't been playing it loudly, but after about two years it just went crackly as if I had blown the speaker

We used it almost daily for a year before the speaker suddenly became loose and distorted the sound

Has been a great radio although I did have it repaired under warranty as it blew a speaker

Blue light triggers the "awake time" chemicals in our brains and amber light triggers the "sleepytime" ones; I found the K-200's blue glow to be difficult to fall asleep next to, so I had to either turn off the backlight entirely before going to sleep (which means I can't see what time it is if I wake up in the middle of the night) or put something over my eyes to keep the blue glow from keeping me awake

Mom was indeed very happy with this K-200