HoMedics SS-7000 Sound Spa Sound Machine Clock Radio with iPod Docking Station | List Price: $89.99
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Brand: HoMedics
Binding: Health and Beauty
Release Date: 2006-12-15
Warranty: 1
Features: - iPod recharging docking station
- Wake to iPod, radio, nature sounds or beep tone
- Dual alarm with snooze
- Removable inserts fit all docking iPods
- Six nature sounds: brook, rain, night, sunrise, waterfall and ocean
SAVE YOUR MONEY [Posted on 2007-09-30]
I have owned this product for 5 months. The problems pointed out by other reviewers are all true. Extremely poor radio reception. The time is impossible to read unless you are looking at it straight on. Buttons are poorly placed. You must reach around the back and feel for multiple tiny buttons just to turn the alarm on or off. Controlling the ipod through the docking system is awkward. Sound quality is poor. To top it all off, mine just stopped working and it appears I have no recourse through Amazon. Save your money. There are better choices out there.
great item [Posted on 2007-11-08]
My husband was perfectly happy with his Homedics sound machine alarm clock until we stayed at a spa hotel that had a sound spa sound machine clock radio with ipod docking station. He loved the ipod feature. So, since his birthday was coming up...
In addition to the ability to listen to his ipod, my husband feels that this unit is superior. There is a better selection of nature sounds and the overall sound quality is richer.
Overall, he loves this unit. It's a little pricey but it has a lot of nice features. We both really like the time projection feature. There's also a daylight savings switch in the back of the unit. So, instead of changing the time maunally, you just have to flip the switch.
Poor Time Display, Hard to set Alarms [Posted on 2007-12-12]
Got this and both my husband and myself were severely disappointed.
Sound quality is great.
Yet unless you are right on the clock you cannot see the time on the front display (the projection works...if it is night time or dark in your room)
I owned it for 3 months and never set the alarm on it short of a couple of times. Very difficult to set and change, plus turning it off is a pain and a half. I finally settles on a iHome with dual alarms...
My husband and I are much happier now.
Don't waste your money on this.
We got it at a major discount and we couldn't wait to get something else that was more expensive.
Never used the nature sounds since the rest of it was so hard to work.
OH...both my husband and I are geeks, so it was due to bad design that we didn't set the alarms too often. Not due to us, we can admit when we are idiots. ;-)
Disappointed [Posted on 2008-01-02]
I almost gave it two stars only because the combination of features (spa sounds, iPod cradle and dual alarm) is great and I have not been able to find this same combo anywhere else, but I'm NOT going to buy another one of these.
As for the features: WHY - I ask again, WHY would the projection tube be located on the back so you can't angle it forward? Your choices of angles are from straight up to straight BACK (behind the clock). You cannot angle forward. I wanted to put this on a bookcase headboard and project on the ceiling (makes perfect sense to me) but you can't do that unless you turn the clock around backwards on the headboard. Who would do that? And if you are going to project on the wall behind the clock why not just look at the clock? It is a stupid design, but unfortunately it is not unique to this unit or this product line.
Caution - Not only was I not impressed, but the one we bought played fine for about half an hour right out of the box, then I turned it off and moved it to a different outlet and after being plugged in for just a few seconds something fried. The projector stopped working and when I picked it up there was smoke coming out of the AC jack. Obviously I unplugged it quickly, boxed it up and took it back. Scary (and smelly).
Dead On Arrival [Posted on 2008-01-23]
I received this for a birthday gift from a big box store and it was dead on arrival. So I'm taking it back and getting a different brand.
Also, one item to note is that it does not come with a remote. The remote is an extra $20.
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