Sony ICF-CD7000BLK AM/FM Stereo CD Clock Radio

Manufacturer: Sony
Customer Rating:

, based on 42 reviews

Lowest Price: $58.05
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Editorial Review:

Stylish design with built in MP3 cable
Sophisticated LCD Display
Auto Time Set
Dual Alarm
AM/FM digital tuner

FM/AM Digital Tuner / Dual Alarm (Wake to CD/Radio/Buzzer) / LCD Brightness Control / MP3 Connectivity with Built-in Audio Cable Triple Time Display displays the current time, Alarm A and Alarm B on the easy-to-read LCD display. Got an MP3 player? MP3 Connectivity with Built-in Audio Cable allows you to easily connect your MP3 player and have access to all of your music. Built-in Audio Cable allows for easy connectivity of a digital music player. 15 Station Presets allows you to set 10 FM stations and 5 AM stations. Count-down Time Nap Button allows you to take a short nap and wake up to the radio or buzzer without changing your alarmSettings. You can select your favorite naptime of 10, 20, 30, 60 or 90 minutes. CD-R and CD-RW Playback Plays CD's burned in either a PC or home recording deck LCD Brightness Control lets you choose between 3 positions - High, Medium or Low (H/M/L), by pressing the snooze button. Extendable Snooze gives you the freedom to choose your snooze time instead of having to settle for the standard timeintervals of other alarms. Each press of the snooze button adds an additional 10 minutes to your snooze time, up to a full hour. Sleep Timer allows you to fall asleep to the Radio, a CD or a Digital Music Player. You can select how long you want the music to play, choosing between 15, 30, 60 or 90 minutes. 110 Volt AC Powered with USA power cord Unit Measurements - 10 7/16 x 8 15/16 x 7 7/8 (265 x 227 x 200mm)

Customer Reviews:

Great Clock-Radio CD player

I ordered this as a gift for my dad. It arrived in a timely manner, and the clock seems to be everything it was advertised to be. My dad is quite pleased with it. Everyone likes the blue lighting, and dad, who is very sensitive to light during the sleeping hours, has had no complaints of it being too bright. (The light is adjustable and is plenty dim when turned down, while still being able to see the time displayed.) The sound quality on the CD player/radio is good, too. Kind of makes me want one for myself, but my older Sony Dream Machine Clock-Radio is still working.

2008-09-01

Sony ICF-CD7000 AM FM Stereo CD Clock Radio

Very nice clock radio. I especially like the dual settings for wake up times and the nap setting. The clock allows choice of which media (AM, FM or CD) and volume to wake up to. Others have expressed concern about the clock being too bright at night but I find it OK for sleeping on the lowest illumination setting - and that is easy to change. It does have a lot of buttons and settings and the first few times I set the alarm time/station/volume I had to look up the instructions. Instruction book is clear and easy to use. On the whole, I am very satisfied with this purchase.

2008-08-29

Good but not good

This clock radio was a gift for my wife who was pregnant so that she could listen to "hypno birthing" while in bed. We've always had luck with stylish Sony CD players. However, this time we had a few problems. Within 4 days of coming out of the box, its broken. Not only is there a couple lines missing from the display (a '3' looks like three parallel lines) but something is blown on one of the speakers. It sounds like the kind of distortion you get from putting too high of a pre-amp volume into a secondary amp. its all distorted. Unfortunately, since it was a gift, the box got thrown out. Now we're unable to return it.

If it were 100% working when it arrived, it would still leave something to be desired, since clock radios sound like .. clock radios. I'd love to have some external speaker ports where I can plug in my much larger extra speakers and get a nice sound.

2008-08-24

Why is something so easy so hard?

Just out of the box, this is a first impression. Major complaint: the FM reception on this model is actually worse than the 22-year-old Dream Machine that this unit replaces, even in the Mono mode. Why don't manufacturers include a simple metal telescoping antenna with these units? The pathetic little wire that passes for an antenna in this case won't stay put in your preferred position unless it's attached to something. Note to designer: remarkably, the wire Scotch-taped to our bedroom wall isn't that attractive. Who would have thought? This is a foolish economy on Sony's part. At first I thought I might be getting interference from our portable phone, which sits on the same nightstand and is plugged into the same outlet. So I unplugged the phone, but it made no difference. Decent reception: why is something so easy so hard to get right? Radios are not exactly cutting edge technology, but it seems that decent reception was an afterthought with this unit.

2008-08-05

Highly recommended

Have enjoyed using this product for the past two months. My only gripe -- and it's minor -- is the labels on the buttons are too small, and aren't illuminated.

2008-08-04

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