Sound quality is awful, sound like an old AM transistor radio from the 60'sSetting alarm (if one time) is a royal pain

The sound quality is not quite as good as the shower radio, but it's not bad

Very good FM radio with good reception and sound quality

The presets are great and the sound quality is very good

I bought this clock for my wife because her old clock's sound quality was very poor and she hates to set it.

It has great features and the radio reception is marvelous

There is a "dim" feature but it only affects the lights that show the alarm(s) are set.

The nap feature is great along with the way the alarm clock works

* Variable brightness control on bottom of radio is a nice feature for keeping display very dim at night

it's a good clock radio with good features that work as advertised.

If your clock radio goes off too early or too late, what good is "beautiful sound" if you are cussing at the radio for waking you up at the wrong time?!?!?!

Great sound, excellent alarm system and great overall appearance

I can set an alarm for Monday-Friday, and the radio sounds GREAT!

This is a well-designed product of excellent quality that met all my expectations for a radio alarm clock with very good sound.

and I just haven't figured it out)... also, the alarm is a gradual sound, rather than blasting you out of bed, which is really nice

The design of this radio is very good, but the quality control seems to be lacking.

This is a well-designed product of excellent quality that met all my expectations for a radio alarm clock with very good sound.

It is good to find products that seem to be of great quality, are well designed, and reasonably priced!

I would recommend this product to everyone looking for accuracy, good sound, and a good design.

Altogether, the design of the clock is inadequate, but the radio is fine.

I'd rate this the biggest drawback to this radio -- especially for those relying on it to get out of bed in the morning ;o{

Once you understand how to use it, product is excellent

This product is very well designed, yet receives some bad reviews due to misunderstanding the product, contributed to by a less than stellar job on the manual

Sangean has downgraded this product by removing the ability to set the alarm for individual days without changing the model number.

but it's really the sound that makes this a great product.

I like that the alarm is not jarring and the light can be dimmed.

I wish the snooze period was adjustable like on some cheaper alarm clocks

The two alarms are nice so that you can set a weekday and weekend alarm.

I especially like the humane alarm sound and the atomic clock

Perhaps they occur at night when I am asleep because at least twice the clock "forgot" an alarm was set during the night and failed to go off

Not having used a clock radio for years due to poor reception where I lived, I purchased Sangean.

I was looking for a simple radio that was easy to set and had good reception

I do realize that some locales may simply have very poor reception of the atomic clock signals.

all of the others we purchased didn't work - poor reception.

Surprisingly great sound from an alarm clock, and very good radio reception.

When the radio comes on in the morning the light of the clock radio will slowly become brighter which is welcome when you are trying to wake up.--I like the fact that you can preset the stations--If you've turned off the lighting on the unit while you are sleeping, you can still push a button on the front of the unit if you want to see--quickly--what time it is.

nice radio, with all the features I want except it arrived with the alarm adjust button broken

I like the 7 separate preset radio buttons and the medium large snooze button

Pressing "any button other than the Standby button will silence the alarm for 5 minutes" so trying the wrong button costs a lot of time

(!) buttons and controls are placed all over the radio (even on the bottom); the most important 'power' button is tiny and badly positioned; my mother (83, Alzheimer) confuses the large 'Band' button on top with the power button for days in a row

So, a great radio, good sound, decent screen, and a solid alarm clock.

it's a good clock radio with good features that work as advertised.

GreatIf you are looking for a good clock radio for your bedroom, this may the one for you

So, this is an expensive clock radio for less than a year of reliable alarm work.

I especially like the humane alarm sound and the atomic clock

Could use a programable snooze, light is a little bright, otherwise is a good alarm radio

The blue light is too bright even at its dimmest and disturbs my sleep.

It is very difficult to use and the light on the clock is way too bright to sleep well with

Therefore, if you face the clock towards you at night, the blue light is too bright.

The light even at it's dimmest setting was still too bright.

HD radio is catching on and there are a lot of good stations that this can't receive.2

Frequency drift doesn't happen, but there can be some fading on the weaker stations late at night

The radio reception is excellent and works well even with the weaker stations in our area

This is a great radio -- local AM stations sound like FM

But as a AM radio, it only gets the real strong stations, which around here, are few.

Display is too bright can be adjusted on the bottom of the unit.

Out of the box, the display is way too bright but you can dim it.

There is an auto-dimmer that is supposed to dim the display at night and brighten it during the

Display is very bright and I have to cover it with my phone at night.

The display is either too bright to sleep with or too dim to see.

The manual that comes with radio is adequate enough but could be better written by someone who speaks English as their primary language.

It is very hard to operate, the manual is almost useless.

Unlike my old radio, I don't think I'll have to keep the manual for this radio handy to refresh my memory of seldom used features

As other reviews have noted, the manual is incomplete and confusing

The radio works as it should and we have figured out most of the features

The only feature I wish this clock had was auto dimming

Set it and forget it!The one thing this clock really needs is an auto-dimming display.

There is an auto-dimmer that is supposed to dim the display at night and brighten it during the

I'd rate this the biggest drawback to this radio -- especially for those relying on it to get out of bed in the morning ;o{

A reviewer mentioned that he wished the clock came with a photo sensor (auto dimmer)

I like the specialized programming (you can pick any day combinations you like, not just M-F or Sat/Sun)

If you work a typical work week (M-F) you'll love that you can set the alarm/radio to wake you up ONLY on weekdays.1.

The atomic clock feature of this unit never worked for me, no matter where I placed the clock radio and it's antenna.

No matter how much I moved it and the antenna (electrical cord) around, the radio would stay fuzzy for weeks at a time

The radio still sucks, no matter where the clock is or where the antenna is (I haven't had this problem with any other radio in this spot!

This clock radio has a lot of great features, but my unit had a fatal flaw: Alarm #1 sounds exactly 4 hours early in ADDITION to the properly set time

Although it has some very good features, it has a "fatal flaw" for me:

But just as all heroes in literature have a tragic flaw, so does the RCR-22

If you hit the snooze button, the light fades back down, then gradually brightens as it comes on again

The radio works as it should and we have figured out most of the features

The lack of a battery backup is a serious design flaw -- the capacitive backup is helpful only during very short power "hiccups", and longer power outages will necessitate setting up the radio from scratch

Like the Sangean radio I had this item appeared to be cheaply made and its lack of function merely confirmed my suspicions.

The radio works as it should and we have figured out most of the features

Other clock radios (Timex I think) have a cool 'sleep timer' feature that this one lacks

If you hit the snooze button, the light fades back down, then gradually brightens as it comes on again

The radio works as it should and we have figured out most of the features

Minute, indicate if it is a ONE time alarm or a repeating one and what kind of repeating (daily, weekdays only, weekends only), and what type of alarm (buzzer, FM radio, AM radio).

Both carry the revision 'version 1' but show what happened to the once really great radio clock in 2013:UM_20070410_381QJ01-A_RCR-22_GB_V describes the old version with weekday alarm settingsUM_RCR-22_ii_20130304_3A81W81000000_GB_V1 describes the new version, with weekend alarms and RDSThe company SANGEAN (Taiwan) is known for designing and marketing sophisticated shortwave and world receiverradios, often sold as O.E.M. licensed products by famous brands

The ability to pick the days you want the alarm to go off (weekdays but not weekends) is great as well as having two alarms.

Controls not as intuitive as I would like.

I am aware that it has a super capacitor which will hold the time for up to an hour in the event of a power failure.

The power failure protection (I believe it's a large capacitor) is outstanding

Easy enough, except that the RCR-22 has a completely inadequate internal battery backup; any power failure that lasts more than 30 minutes or so will eliminate all the internal settings, including the time.

This little clock/radio has everything you would want - except a back-up battery supply in case of power failure.

However, a battery backup will hold the time for up to a year AND still be able to sound the buzzer alarm during a power failure.

If your room is bright in the morning, you won't be able to read the display if it is dimmed

So, to read the time I have to either get focused enough to read the very dim display or press any of the buttons to bring the display to full brightness, which is very bright in a dark room

This thing lights up my room at night like a neon sign, even if I turn it away from me where I can't even read it

Here's what I like:--I am very sensitive to light and like to sleep in a dark room.

You can set 2 levels of display intensity, one very bright for normal room light and one adjustably dim for a dark room

I tried it out for 3 nights, and each night it lost 1-3 hours

You could presumably set an alarm for 7:30 a.m. and the clock might lose three hours in the middle of the night, which meant the alarm actually would go off at 10:30 a.m

Problems we had were the atomic clock took 4-5 hours to set itself and, worse yet, alarm 1, once set, could not be unset.

I tried every thing the company recommended & spent hours over 2 days trying to get a signal

About six months after the purchase, the clock would randomly lose three hours.