Updates time automatically from US atomic clock
Dual alarms
Automatic preset station option
Modern styling
Gentle wake-up alarm
This review is from: Sangean RCR-2 Digital Atomic Clock Radio with Dual AlarmsI spent a lot of time trying to find the perfect alarm clock for my bedroom and, as you can tell, I am still looking. The Sangean RCR-2 certainly has some attractive features like the atomic clock, which took a few hours to set itself, and the nice styling but it fails in so many areas as an alarm clock. First, and most importantly, the display is unreadable. It is very busy with lots of symbols and numbers but using very thin LCD numerals for the time and the off axis viewing angle is very small; you must basically face it head on. Worst of all, however, is the blindingly bright orange backlight with makes is impossible for night adjusted eyes to read the display if you want to check the time in the middle of the night. It is so bright as to cast shadows throughout the room. I keep it across the room but I can't imagine trying to sleep with this minor sun positioned on the nightstand. Sure, you can turn off the backlight but then the clock is invisible at night. Maybe LEDs are not cool but they make a lot more sense for an alarm clock. Also, it takes at least four button presses to turn on the alarm as opposed to one on my old alarm....
This review is from: Sangean RCR-2 Digital Atomic Clock Radio with Dual AlarmsI own several radios and clock radios, including CCrane'sCCRadio (made by Sangean) and the GE SuperRadio. Some ofthe negatives given in reviews above have an element of truth,but are overblown, in my view.Compared to the CCRadio (the several year old one, I don'thave the more recent CCRadio Plus): * The RCR-2 is noticeably smaller. It is somewhat narrower, and half the height. It is twice as deep. It feels solid, heavy, and polished. * The extra buttons make it quite a bit easier to use. Sangean is still no Apple or Timex when it comes to making intuitive interfaces, so the interface will still confuse some. And while Sangean has improved on their translation of the instruction booklet, it still leaves much unsaid. But the function of each button is clearer and simpler, with less strange overloading of uses. * The CCRadio used any button for Snooze, so I could not switch stations, or just turn the radio OFF in the morning, without pushing the ON/OFF button 3 times, to get it out of snooze mode, and just plain OFF. The RCR-2 only uses the one up/down big tuning button for snooze, so other buttons continue to function for their primary purpose in the morning. This is good. * The front third of the RCR-2 is polished metal, with a closely fit clear face plate over the front. The buttons are a very solid feeling, smooth polished round metal nubs with strong spring loading. This is good for most of the buttons, though the snooze (big up/down bar) button requires more focused pressure than I like first thing in the morning. * The CCRadio buttons are flimsier feeling plastic, and have some annoying delays -- you have to hold them a major fraction of a second to take affect (debounce circuitry, I guess). You hold the CCRadio station selection buttons perhaps a half second to change station, but not more than two seconds, or you just reprogrammed the memory. This is an annoyingly small window between the times required for the two functions. I have not noticed any such timing problems with the RCR-2 -- the station selection buttons take affect immediately, so far as I can tell. * The 7-day programming, and display, is the first such I have used since a Sony model, many years ago. Each of the two alarms gets one programmable time, and can be enabled or disabled independently for each of the 7 days. Each of the seven days of the week gets its own button, and the status of each day is separately shown on the display. Nice. * I haven't pushed the radio tuner yet, except to note that the one weak AM station I like, late at night, which only my best radios (the CCRadio and GE SuperRadio) can pick up, also came in just fine on the RCR-2. So I assume this is another fine Sangean AM frontend. * The RCR-2 display is _much_ more readable than the CCRadio display. There is _no_ angle from which I can read the smaller details on the CCRadio display, except when I hold a flashlight just right and squint through my good eye. The RCR-2 display is crystal clear from a range of angles (and utterly invisible or unreadable, outside that range). You must view it from straight on or from above, looking down, but not more than about 20 or 30 degrees above the horizontal. If you are more than 5 or 10 degrees below the horizon, looking up, it is _completely_ invisible, with just an orange lit rectangle. You can look from the left or rig...
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