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Percussive Dishes
Quality product, but don't install directly under the cabinet where you store the dishes, or the vibration will rattle your dishes, adding unintended percussion to the music. Best you can get to save space - but lacking still... The good: digital tuning, decent sound (not great, but good) for the size, doesn't take up a lot of space. The bad: listen to the other reviews about reception - I can't get an FM station on this device that I can with every other radio (including my car) I use in the house - and I am only about 10 miles from the transmitter. Most stations come in just fine, but if you are at all concerned about an iffy station, you will probably not get it on this device. Last complaint - no volume indicator and the machine resets volume to low level every time you turn it off, so you have to hold the button and wait to get the volume you like everytime you turn it on. The ugly: no one else is making a comparable product. If you want to save space in the kitchen, for now this is the way to go. Anyone reading these reviews who has some money to invest - go find someone to build a *quality* space saver CD player! GE, are you reading this? Can you *show* us the volume level and leave them in memory, and do something about the reception? Don't buy before you read this I installed this radio with most of the power cord wrapped on the provided spools and a short line to an outlet. It only got ONE FM station. I had to unravel the cord which doubles as an antenna and distribute it under my kitchen cabinets like Christmas garland. That helped but unwanted signal rejection is poor. It makes a lot of static noise reminicent of an old short wave radio. The CD player seems designed to gobble every crumb that falls from the cabinet above. It has a prominent Bass On/Off button that lights up that transforms what ought to be basic fare into a "feature". The woofer is at the other end of an acoustic tunnel fastened to the bottom, but don't get excited, its all for visual effect. GE did manage to handle the mechatronics of a CD player, a radio with a digital tuner, and a remote combined with a under-counter light that has two brightnesses. Gone is the timer feature that turns on appliances plugged into the radio that previous GE under-cabinet radios had. Nice design, good sound, fair reception This product satisfied all our expectations, though admittedly we were not expecting much. The design and convenience are exceptional, the sound is good (I would like an intermediate bass setting, perhaps even variable EQ), and I get most all of my favorite radio stations. Installation was fairly simple...though I had to modify the template a little bit to accomodate the overhang on our shelf. If you want true Hi-Fi in the kitchen then you'll have to spend more money and do a real customized install. But for what it does and the room it (doesn't) take up--we love our GE Spacemaker clock radio/CD player. GE Spacemaker kicks A! I am generally not a fan of things GE, however, the GE Spacemaker CD/Radio 75290 is an excellent value for the money-first of all, the sound is terrific. The radio, with its 10 presets, is surprisingly sophisticated, and the built-in counter light also a plus-the remote would be great with a built-in kitchen, which we do not have, but if we move it will prove useful-the big LCD, instead of LED, digits, gives this product a handsome, not clumsy, look-also, I am the least handy person, but I managed the installation in a little over an hour-..., this a great product-unfortunately, it's only competition of which I am aware is a Sony prodyct, and I don't know if that's a good product-this definitely is | |
