Sony ICF-CD832PS Psyc CD / AM / FM Stereo Clock Radio (Black)

 (4 customer reviews)

When you need to get up, you need to know that the alarm clock will go off and won't blink 12:00am at 9am after a power outage, or anything like that.

There is NO BATTERY BACKUP! Keep this in mind if you are using it as a bedside clock. In an office, it's fine, but it's not the wisest design having an alarm clock with no battery back up.

The only protection it has is a 60 second clock memory. So if you're power outage goes on longer than 60 seconds...don't expect to make it to work/class on time.

It looks nice though, and is an attractive clock/cd/radio... but that's about it.

I won't go into the features, others have already commented on those.

Pros:

- Very good sound

- Good reception

- great features

- brighntess control

- 2 alarms

Cons:

- no battery backup

- the CD cover latching mechanism looks a bit flimsy.

- There is a squeal as CDs start to play (just the CD player reading the CD.) This sometimes wakes me up before the CD starts playing and is quite loud.

- There is a loud beep when you set the alarms.

- I don't care for the teen-age color scheme and the large "Psyc," written on the top. Would have been better if it was just all black.

Overall it's a good alarm clock and would probably buy another one if I had to, although I might test a few others to see they also had the squealing as the CD starts.

Gave it two stars because the radio still works, though reception is not clear.

Pros

1. Dual alarms.

Cons

1. CD player initial skips songs on CD-R, eventually became dead and would not play from even original CDs.

2. Come with external wired antenna but reception is even worse than the 10+ year old alarm it replaced.

3. Pretty big alarm/CD player but still lack battery backup.

4. Buttons are hard to find and use.