Jensen JENJCR425 Am/fm Radio Alarm Clock

I saw this radio at Target and thought it looked really cool. I like the old-fashioned styling and the blue display. Unfortunately, I quickly found two major problems with this. As someone stated earlier, the display is too bright-it lights up my room like a full moon and there seems to be no way to turn it down.
The second major problem is that the volume dial does not turn smoothly, rather it is notched in such a way that there really is no way to control the volume. On the unit I have, either the volume is down all the way, okay at the first notch, and way too loud on the second notch.
I like the nature sounds, but the bird sounds are rather silly because they sound like snippets from a dozen different habitats and is distracting. The flowing water sounds nice, though.
Tuning is interesting because the frequencies are in 0.05 increments. So, to go from 90.5 to 90.7, you have to push the up button four times instead of just once. While this is not an issue...Read more

It didn't look as nice as it did in the picture. Kind of junky looking. Hard to set, and I never could get the nature sounds to work. The volume knob was very hard to turn. Also the light was way to bright to sleep with . Very unsastisfied.

The radio works well, especially because the tuner is digital. Switching from stored memory station is a bit complex. Overall, the radio is complicated to use, and the instructions are not very clear. The most troubling part of this device is that the radio alarm only goes off for about 5 minutes (I have not figured out anyway to lengthen the alarm time), and unless I have it on loud, I sleep through the alarm. My advise is that if you can afford to, buy a better Alarm Clock.