Best Clock Radio
- Thread starter blackwax
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I just got a Sangean WR-2, and absolutely love it. Mine has the walnut finish case and is really attractive. The sound is also warm and rich with plenty of bass. This is really a new model but there is plenty of info on the web. These retail for around $160.00 but can usually be had for around $140.00.
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Sandy G
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I just wish they'd figger out how to make one of th' damthings that would reset itself when the electricity goes out...Don't tell me it can't be done-WWV sends out a 60 cycle signal thruout the national grid. I hate to walk in & see 'em flashing "12:00" at you like a mad idiot, & then I invariably screw it up somehow when trying to reset it...-Sandy G.
MarkAnderson
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Sandy G said:
I have one - made by Emerson Research. I've never once set the dang thing. Out of the box, plug it in, it sets itself, that's it. Pretty cool. - Mark
vintagecollect
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space age clocks
Anything cool and space age looking from 70s, digital a Plus.
Anything cool and space age looking from 70s, digital a Plus.
tomwil
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Sony Dream Machine EZ series
The best clock radios I believe are the ones that are quick to set the wake-up time. Most mechanical ones require turning a hand and approximating the selected time. Most digital ones require pushing a button and waiting for the fast-forwarding time to be selected. Either method seems tedious to me.
That is why I prefer and use the Sony Dream Machine EZ series, from the 70's/80's. I have the EZ-2, EZ-4 and the EZ-7 models. Each of them has 2 front dials, one for the hour, and one for the minute. All you have to do to set the alarm time is rotate each dial to the hour and minute you want. Quick and easy ... like an alarm clock for dummies! It also has an AM/FM radio, and battery backup. Sony EZ-7 and EZ-2 are shown in the pics.
blackwax said:
The best clock radios I believe are the ones that are quick to set the wake-up time. Most mechanical ones require turning a hand and approximating the selected time. Most digital ones require pushing a button and waiting for the fast-forwarding time to be selected. Either method seems tedious to me.
That is why I prefer and use the Sony Dream Machine EZ series, from the 70's/80's. I have the EZ-2, EZ-4 and the EZ-7 models. Each of them has 2 front dials, one for the hour, and one for the minute. All you have to do to set the alarm time is rotate each dial to the hour and minute you want. Quick and easy ... like an alarm clock for dummies! It also has an AM/FM radio, and battery backup. Sony EZ-7 and EZ-2 are shown in the pics.
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jt1stcav
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I like maxm's Zenith. My '50s vintage Zenith AM clock radio sits on top of my fridge and is used practically every morning as I eat breakfast just before going to work. After my dad restored this classic several years ago, I've never had a single problem with it; not only does it keep excellent time, but it's about the only vintage tube radio I own that locks its stations dead-on and hardly ever fades out, requiring constant retuning like so many of my other radios.
It's a keeper for sure! :thmbsp:
It's a keeper for sure! :thmbsp:
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Kiwick
slave to 3 equines
My clock radio is a 1972 no-name stereo music center with radio, cassettes and a built in electric clock
Works very well and wakes you up in stereo!
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Works very well and wakes you up in stereo!
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Randy Bassham
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My nightstand is a Mahogany Zenith 12H090 AM-FM console that's hooked up to a Telechron alarm clock that has an AC outlet in the back. Getting woke up by a radio using push-pull 6V6's is about as good as you can do. However, I retired 2 weeks ago and I've only had to use the alarm once since then, that's even better.
dr.ido
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I have an old Australian Transistor Company timer switch. It was originally intended to switch on a VCR back before they had built in clocks. I used to use it to switch on my main system at the time, but I found I kept going back to sleep listening to the radio.
So then I hooked the timer switch up to a cheap boom box tuned to a station I hated and turned all the way up. The distorted sound of a morning DJ I can't stand got me up most of the time, but it got me up in a bad mood.
I've since replaced the cheap boom box with a car alarm siren. It's less annoying than the bad morning DJ, but I can still sleep through it sometimes.
So then I hooked the timer switch up to a cheap boom box tuned to a station I hated and turned all the way up. The distorted sound of a morning DJ I can't stand got me up most of the time, but it got me up in a bad mood.
I've since replaced the cheap boom box with a car alarm siren. It's less annoying than the bad morning DJ, but I can still sleep through it sometimes.
staceygraham
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If the Tivoli alarm clock uses the same oddball "loudness" curve that Mr. Kloss built into the Tivoli Model One, then I would vote for it.
My Model One baffles me. I can pick apart the unnatural sound of the neat little box in a bunch of negative ways, but when I just listen to it at conversational levels I catch myself admiring little details that I could never hear on my other small radios. It sounds so wrong but also sounds so right.
Plus, the way it looks just pushes the right buttons for me.
I was going to buy one of those Bose radios, but the do not sound as good at lower levels as the Tivoli. Cranked up they do beat it, but who listens to a table radio/clock radio cranked up?
My Model One baffles me. I can pick apart the unnatural sound of the neat little box in a bunch of negative ways, but when I just listen to it at conversational levels I catch myself admiring little details that I could never hear on my other small radios. It sounds so wrong but also sounds so right.
Plus, the way it looks just pushes the right buttons for me.
I was going to buy one of those Bose radios, but the do not sound as good at lower levels as the Tivoli. Cranked up they do beat it, but who listens to a table radio/clock radio cranked up?
These are the best clock radios I have ever used.Not the best musicly all though after a upgrade cap replacement in the power supply the Sangean 818 sounds pretty good for a clock radio.It has been all over the world and never let me down and long wave and SW proved useful to me in the middle east.
The Zenith wake up minder is cool to because you can record on it and wake up to what ever you want mine has a very loud rooster right now but the Sangein is my favorite due to baterys last almost 300 hours at mid volume and the back up batterys useing lithum will keep it programed for 6 years!
It has been the most reliable radio ever and has been bounced around in a conroled crash.Thanks Pakistan International for the scary landing and brining me closer to God! So I love my Sangean 818 best.:yes:
The Zenith wake up minder is cool to because you can record on it and wake up to what ever you want mine has a very loud rooster right now but the Sangein is my favorite due to baterys last almost 300 hours at mid volume and the back up batterys useing lithum will keep it programed for 6 years!
It has been the most reliable radio ever and has been bounced around in a conroled crash.Thanks Pakistan International for the scary landing and brining me closer to God! So I love my Sangean 818 best.:yes:
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