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Hi-fi Table Radio with Ipod® Dock | List Price: $0.00
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Brand: Teac
Binding: Electronics
Features: - Charges iPod® while playing through system
- Halo-effect blue illumination when iPod® is in use
- Digital AM/FM tuner with 20 station presets
- Large LCD with dimmer and automatic on/off
- Alarm function with wake to iPod® or tuner
OUTSTANDING!!! [Posted on 2007-05-30]
This is a wonderful product. It looks great on my desk at work!
Sounds good but... [Posted on 2007-07-19]
1) you cannot see in the picture that amazon provides, but there is a circular bright blue light behind the ipod. Its pretty bright and annoying. Looks ugly too.
2) the FM Antenna is very weak. I could not pick up as many channels as i was able to pick up with my old desk alarm clock.
3) setting the time is VERY annoying. there are no separate buttons for hours, mins. you just hold the forward or backward button and let the minutes increment by one. It wouldn't be so much of a problem if the numbers went by quickly. They don't. its very slow.
4) the alarm is very confusing at first to set.
5) the build quality and quality control are questionable. When i opened my brand new unit, it had a scratch down the middle and the circular, blue led that is behind the ipod was not flush. One edge was really pushed in while the other was halfway popped out.
6) Sound quality with the ipod is actually pretty good.
7) i really loved the feel of the remote. Its a nice solid feeling remote, much nicer then the remote provided by the ihome units.
8) The clock first displayed as a 12 hour clock but later on decided to change to a 24 hour clock. i did not know how to set it back nor did the manual mention anything about this.
overall:
pros: sounds good, nice remote
cons: questionable build and quality control, bad FM reception, very annoying setup of time, confusing alarm setup, annoying bright lights, switched automatically to 24hour clock from 12 hour clock.
conclusion: i returned it and would not buy again.
Good Specs but Too Many Flaws [Posted on 2007-08-08]
I bought this at Costco on a whim for $[..]. It had impressive sound but looked kind of big to be used on a nightstand. Overall, it didn't live up to my expectations and I will be returning it. It just suffers from what looks to be a rushed and/or poor design.
PROS:
+Very good sound for it's size.
+Alarm can be set to iPod or radio.
+Nice remote that feels solid.
+All the iPod adapters you'd ever need included in the box.
CONS:
-Display is WAY to bright even on it's dim setting (there's only one dim setting). I leave it on dim in direct sunlight and I can still see it just fine. At night I can almost read by it. Come on manufacturers, make dim actually DIM!
-Alarm doesn't always come on. It works about 85% of the time, which isn't good enough. Sometimes it just doesn't come on. I've also had trouble getting the alarm button to work. Poor workmanship.
-Device has an AUX in port, but you can't set the alarm to it. Poor design.
-Alarm can be set to come on quietly and then get louder over several seconds to gently wake you up, but unfortunately the quietest setting you can set the alarm to is a volume setting of 10 which is very loud (at 25% of it's rated volume). The volume will go all the way to ZERO. Why make it so you can only set it as low as 10 to wake up to? 10 is loud enough to hear over a freight train!
-No snooze feature.
-Button to turn off alarm is hard to find.
-It takes FOREVER to set the alarm or the time due to having to slowly scroll through the time.
-Big blue circular light behind iPod dock that is irritating at night.
-It's pretty big. Too big for most night-stands.
-Manual is just wrong about some settings so you have to guess until you get them right.
Hey Amazon, how about listing the actual model number for this device instead of using some made up generic name like "Hi-fi Table Radio with iPod Dock"? It's model number is SR-LXi-B.
Unbeatable sound [Posted on 2008-01-10]
For a system this small, the sound is absolutely amazing! I bought this purely for the ipod speaker. Everything else such as the clock, alarm and radio are merely small pluses so I couldn't care less about their flaws. I also have the Altec Lansing inMotion im600 portable ipod speaker which I got from a friend for Christmas. It got stellar reviews and justly so for it's compactness and easy portability. But sound-wise it's got nothing on this Teac unit. I say it's not even half as good.
So if you're looking for a clock, alarm clock or radio look elsewhere. This product has many shortcomings in those areas according to my fellow reviewers. But if you want a small ipod speaker with stunning sound quality and not much else look no further than the Teac SR-LXi-B.
another perspective- it is a good alarm clock too... [Posted on 2008-05-13]
I've read everybody else's review up to this point- and I agreed with almost everything but one. This is a really good alarm clock too [I'll explain].
Positives- the sound from this $80 table top is amazing! It is probably the best thing about the unit (good cheap sound)- to get better you'll have to pony up $200+. Remote is solid. Believe it or not, alarm clock feature is just what I need.
Negatives- display is way too bright for nighttime use. fm antenna is weak.
Overtime (say within 3 months), I can ignore all those alarm beeps. It doesn't really matter what patterns they use- beeps, alternate, etc. I will ignore it. Also snoozing and 1 minute settings won't work for me either- I tend to wake up slowly. What really wakes me up is a loud random noise from .. say an FM channel (tuned to your favorite morning DJ). This is where the Teac is perfect for me. There are very few alarm clock that allow you to set it to wake up with volume PRESET to the loudness you want.
At night, I listen to ipod music in low volume and set the table top radio to sleep. The next day, the alarm wakes me up on FM. Very few alarm clocks will do this (and plays music from my ipod).
Buy this for what it is- a very good sounding ipod table radio. IF you like the alarm clock feature, then it is a bonus!
btw- plug this into one of those cheap 350va UPS (uninterruptable power supply). that way the alarm clock will always come on even if you lost power during the night.
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