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Kitchen Clock Radio
I found the shipper to be prompt in shipping -- the unit was a new unit, but the model was a few years old --- never the less, it sounds great and looks great in the kitchen....good price too! HORRIBLE reception. TINNY sound. Rosey reviews are wrong. Sorry guys, but I've evaluated this radio carefully now for months. And while you can move the powercord to improve reception, it is station specific, and a bulky powercord is just not something you should have to move around all the time, and worse: have hanging around your countertop. The entire POINT of this radio is to have it up and out of the way. Secondly, the "mega bass" is a joke. The sound (CD too) is horribly tinny. I have speakers of similar diameter which produce far more balanced sound. How dare Sony put out a product like this. If it hadn't been a gift given to me several months after purchase, I would have returned it instantly. 1. Do not believe the rosey reviews. If you need a product like this, look elsewhere, or perhaps Sony's later models. This kills me because I am normally a sony fan, because their products are almost always predictably competent. Not this one. 2. Repeatedly read #1 above as needed. Sony ICF Kitchen CD Clock Radio The product was easy to install and functions very well. I am very happy with it. Great sound The radios and cd work well. Ocassionally some channels get white noise but overall a very good product. fix for reception problem I looked at this radio but initally didn't buy it because of the negative reception reviews. I then found one at a garage sale cheap enough to tinker with. If you remove all the screws from the top, (all the way, use a magnet) it comes off pretty easy. there are 3 blue pots near the am antenna, the rear most one affects the fm tuning. If this does not improve things enough, you can add an external antenna. The stock fm antenna is the power cord, cute idea in theory, but stupid in practice, as a thin white wire us much easier to hide along the wall than the thick stiff power cord. The fm antenna input can be isolated by cutting the little wire jumper under the am antenna, it's got black paper tape over it. cut it in the middle, and attach your antenna to the end heading towards the center of the board under the thin white ceramic part with 3 pins. I removed my circuit board to find the right spot. I do not recomend doing this, as the flat wires are a pain to plug back in right. Initially, the radio worked ok on most stations, but my favorite station, normally strong, was full of static. Adding a separate antenna and tuning the pot changed the reception to crystal clear. I cut a small groove in the rear of the clam shell to route the wire through, and ancored it with hot glue. I find it shocking that a big company like Sony would cripple what is otherwise a really nice radio with such a stupid antenna design, esp when there are so few undercounter radios to chose from. | |
