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Sony iPod Clock Dock - White (ICFC1IPWHITE) | List Price: $99.99
Discount Price: $81.59
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Brand: Sony
Features: - Box Content - ICF-C1iP clock radio/speaker dock with attached FM wire antenna, power supply adapter, and installed battery, AM loop antenna, Wireless remote control (including Lithium battery), Mini-jack cable, and Operating instructions
- Power requirements - 120 VAC, 60Hz (Clock backup requires 3 VDC battery)
- Output power - 3 W +3 W (at 10% harmonic distortion)
- Frequency range - FM 87.5-108MHz and AM 530-1710Hz
- Sound enhancer - MegaXpand, Bass Reflex Speaker System
Good Sound [Posted on 2008-02-13]
Very nice iPod clock radio for this price. Excellent sound for a small to a medium sized bedroom. You won't be able to fill a larger room with quality sound, but that is not what this is designed for. As others have mentioned, display is a little bright. It was not enough to bother me, but if you need total darkness to sleep it may be a problem. Great product.
Sony AM FM Radio/Docking station [Posted on 2008-03-13]
Nice sound quality.Easy to use manually or with remote.Good value for the money.
Sony iPod Clock Dock- White(ICFC1IPWHITE)
Simple, Reliable iPod Clock Radio With One Annoying Drawback [Posted on 2008-03-24]
I was looking for an iPod clock radio for over a year. My requirements were specific, which is why it took so long. It had to have the following:
1. It had to be white in color.
2. It had to have dual alarms, since my partner and I don't always go to work at the same time.
3. It had to have decent sound quality. It didn't have to fill a room, but it had to be good enough to sound as good as desktop PC speakers or any other stereo clock radio costing $100.
4. It had to have a snooze bar.
5. It had to cost less than $150 including tax and shipping. Under $100 would be ideal.
Clock radios that met these requirements were few. The first-generation XtremeMac IPD-LUN-00 Luna Alarm Clock Audio System and this Sony Clock Dock were immediately the front-runners.
The first-generation Luna had chrome knobs on top of the unit, which always showed fingerprints. Also, the Luna radio tuner got poor reviews here at Amazon. Meanwhile the Sony had about the same audio quality, a better-reviewed radio tuner, and no silver buttons. So when MacXtreme released the second-generation Luna in black, with no white version offered, my decision was made for me.
I like Sony products, and the Clock Dock is a good example of a Sony device. Being made in china, it doesn't quite have the solid feel that the Dream Machine clock radios of the 80s had. But it seems durable enough. But then I found an annoying problem - the display is too bright.
The snooze bar is used to step the display through three brightness settings (low-med-high). But even the "low" setting is far too bright for a dark room. If you prefer to sleep in a dark room, with as little outdoor or indoor light as possible, this display will drive you nuts. Being a full-face "glow" display, it lights-up a room like a flashlight. I had to install a piece of fabric over the display to keep it covered most of the time (lifting the fabric only when I wanted to know the time). It is a poor solution, but given that I like all the other features, it is an improvised solution I can live with.
Now if only Sony had add a fourth step in the display setting: OFF. They probably thought that would confuse users. But really, if this uniit had the option to turn off the blue-green glow in the display, the Sony Clock Dock would have been perfect.
If you are looking for a quality, white, iPod clock radio and you DON'T need 2 alarms, then you have more choices. At the high end (over $300), the Tivoli iYiYi High-Fidelity iPod AM/FM Stereo System (White/Silver) is great, as is the Creative Labs Cambridge Large Radio with iPod Dock - White (CD745i). And in the more affordable range (under $100), the iHome iH6 Clock Radio for iPod (White) is very popular, as is the JBL On Stage II with RF Remote
I am happy with the Sony Clock Dock. I just wish it had the option to turn that display glow lamp OFF. One software feature. That's how close to 'perfect' this unit was.
Ideal Dream machine [Posted on 2008-06-09]
This is functionally a well thought out product wrt to being both a clock radio and an iPod docking station. The sound is most adequate, but not that of the Bose iPod dock station which cost about 3.5X. The adjustable back support is a nice add-on when pressing iPod buttons.
sony ipod dock [Posted on 2008-06-18]
Excellent prodoct. Nice size, sound, quality like you would expect from sony! Love it! and you can use your remote to change your ipod songs, the remote does everything. someone said you couldn't do that on a review and yes, you can. Great item from sony at a great price.
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