Alarm no longer audible!
359742
I bought 2 of these and the actual alarm sound is no longer audible on either one. Whats the point of an alarm ckock if it cant wake you.
238988
Alarm go off when ever it feels like it.  Big eratation for my Dad who I bought it for, so now its a shelf item.  Looking for something of higher quality.
563918
There is no way to disable the alarm/beeping on this unit.

However, it can easily be modified to remove the speaker, albeit voiding your warranty (I assume).
4466935
I assumed there would be a delay for the alarm so if you were entering/exiting, you had time to turn it off before the alarm sounded. Instead, it just goes off immediately.
1798985
I purchased this timer for my wife to use in the kitchen. Unfortunately, the alarm is so low that you cannot hear it unless you are very close to the timer AND the room is quiet. Any surrounding noise from kitchen appliances, radio, etc. will down out this very quiet alarm.
What were the engineers thinking who designed this kitchen timer ???

P.S. The timer quit working after one month of occasional use !
1732518
I installed the alarm 4 months ago, but never tested it.  The chime (loud!) has been working and when I went out or to bed I would set it to to "Home", where it's supposed to go off as soon as the door is opened.  I just assumed that if someone kicked the door in, the alarm would go off. The other day I forgot to switch it to chime before opening the door aaannnd... nothing. Battery is fine, and chime still works, but there is no sound when it is set to "Home" or "Away". I had purchased a door only alarm at the same time, but never installed it.  Same problem - chime works, but no alarm.  The window alarms do work, but two different door alarms do not.  It has a 1 year warranty, so I was refunded, but for the last 4 months I thought I had an alarm!
2427857
If this clock did not have an "alarm off" near the snooze alarm I'd rate it a five. It does not need this feature because there is a switch on the side that accomplishes the same. Occaisionally, I finally figured out, I was hitting this small button while fumbling for the snooze button and thus missing out on being awake at the correct time. Not deaf -just a.m. impaired. Also, after one time knocking it on the floor the light feature didn't work anymore. Since I'd had it for a while by that time, I was philosophical.
1890436
This worked good and as expected.  The issue I have is that the alarm is way too loud.  It becomes very annoying.  I wish there was a volume control.
3036745
I love everything about this alarm (I try to keep my phone away from my bed, I just don't want it to rule my whole life), especially the dimmer option on the light, but I cannot get the radio to stay on a single station, so sometimes I wake up to static, or sometimes I don't wake up at all because it's not even on static, it's just silent so even though the alarm "went off", no sound is coming out.  Oops.
4268331
I purchased a simplisafe system 5/10/13. Since that time I have installed many smoke detectors, water detectors, freeze censor etc.
On a recent two week trip I discovered that alarm was no longer connected to the dispatch center. I reset the system by unplugging and removing a battery. Then two days later the system is no longer connected to the dispatch center. There were no power outages during my trip or since.
This is not very reassuring for an alarm system. I have yet to hear from customer support.
About the worse thing that an alarm system can do is not report an alarm. I live in a rural area and no on is nearby to hear it.
1189492
The alarm is so soft that I could barely hear it in the same room. Everything else works fine to me. Although the alarm sound is the only disappointing thing, it is importent to me. Why use it if you cannot hear it?

However, I noticed that some mentioned this and some did not. Maybe the quality of alarm varies from product to product?
1320210
My first experience with this alarm clock was when my husband bought it at a truck stop on his way to spend the night in Chicago.  He had to wake up at 2 a.m. and was really stressed out worrying that he would oversleep.  He set the alarm on its loudest setting and went to sleep (WITHOUT READING THE DIRECTIONS OF HOW TO TURN THE ALARM CLOCK OFF!).  The alarm clock went off, and by the time he figured out how to rip the battery out of the alarm clock, the hotel security was at his door knocking because the front desk had received complaints that it sounded like a smoke alarm in a "nearby room" was going off and other customers were concerned the hotel was on fire! Needless to say, no one we have ever met that is a heavy sleeper has EVER overslept with this alarm clock!  THIS ALARM CLOCK IS A "MUST HAVE" FOR OVERSLEEPERS! (JUST BE SURE TO READ ALL THE DIRECTIONS BEFORE YOU USE IT THE FIRST TIME!) LOL!
2789282
You can't hear the alarm when you're wearing the watch. The sound comes from the back of the watch which is pressed against your skin. That completely shuts out the sound.
2232935
FYI Me when I sleep: I am in total hibernation and do not hear my phone alarms, texts, or phone calls (iphone 5), and definitely not any standard alarm clock. In 2011 when I purchased my first "Sonic Alert" clock, I was a junior in college and probably not sleeping enough but even when I did get enough sleep, I was impossible for my roommates to wake up and on top of that, I would insult them (I never had any recollection of these "events") in an angry tone but with silly insults. Needless to say my roommates were fed up with my shenanigans especially because final exams were upon us. Ever since then this clock has saved me on multiple occasions from missing important events. Self-discipline is still required to not just turn the clock off and throw myself back into bed but I've only succumbed to my sleepy mind a few times and I cannot blame that on the clock.

This is what I owned/purchased before: Sonic Alert SB200ss&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Sonic-Boom-Alarm-Clock/dp/B000EX7LNM/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Sonic Boom  Alarm Clock</a>&nbsp;and it recently stopped functioning properly (it cannot keep the correct time anymore and either stops altogether or skips ahead which is super unhelpful for an alarm clock that I need to wake me up)! However, Amazon very conveniently indicated that I actually purchased that product December 4th, 2011. As a consumer, I'm not sure that I mind replacing my alarm clock every 3-5 years and I need one that is EXTREMELY LOUD so I came back to Amazon for this one.

I am so glad I decided to upgrade to the SBD375ss with Dual Alarms because:
1. LARGER DISPLAY: Even though it is super loud (even on volume setting 5) I still need to put it across the room from me so that I actually get out of bed, turn off the alarm clock, turn on my bedroom lights, and take my morning medication. The larger display allows me to see what time it is while I get ready from practically anywhere in my room which allows me to leave on time!
2. DUAL ALARMS: Now I can turn off the alarm and jump back into bed (throwing all self-discipline out the window) and still get jolted out of bed by ANOTHER alarm without having to own two sonic alert alarm clocks. This is a revolution for my wake-up routine because now I actually have a reliable back up alarm that is just as effective as the first one.
3. LOUD: This was true of the last one too but let's face it, if you are on this page already and considering this clock then you know how dire your situation is. Don't get the clock that rolls away from you or the one that requires you to solve math problems or whatever because your sleepy mind will figure out a way to get around these supposedly "foolproof" alarms...just get this one now because you know what you really need is something so loud that it makes you get up.

With the first sonic alert clock, I did use the bed shaker and then eventually moved the clock across the room because I needed to make sure I didn't just wake up but that I also got out of bed. I would say that the bed shaker is effective for both models of this clock but to me it is more of an extra which I don't need at this time. It would probably be most effective in situations where you aren't trying to wake up your whole house or apt (not an issue for me right now) and in cases where the individual requiring the clock is not necessarily a "hibernating bear" but actually hard of hearing.

My only complaint: I must be putting in the D battery wrong or something because both the new one and old one would never run off of just the battery. I would LOVE IT if I could make the clock run off of battery sometimes because if the power goes out and then comes back on while I'm asleep I just have a clock blinking "12:00" at me and absolutely no alarm clock. I'll edit this post when I figure out what I am doing wrong just in case others have experienced the same issue with the battery.
1660993
I love this clock. A lot. I hate waking up to an alarm sound. And the light worked wonders on me to the point that when the sound stopped working I still kept using it because all I needed was the light to wake me up. Nevertheless I can't program it anymore and I have not gotten a response from Phillips.
2456324
I bought this alarm about 2 yrs ago.  Haven't used it for over one year.  Now it's not working.  I'm going to buy something cheaper for the amount of time it lasts.
290212
Loved this radio when it arrived.  The sound quality is what its all about...great value in a smart enough package.  Soon enough, a company like Boston will figure out that if they built actual functionality into this unit, it could rock.  Give me the out of the box sound quality of this unit with the alarm capabilities of an Android app like Alarm Clock Plus+ and we'd really have something.  Plus, why can't I go to sleep to one station and have the alarm wake me up to another?  In the end, my clock radio dreams are unfulfilled...

AND!!!

Then the alarm just stopped working.  It was a volume /output issue as I could crank the volume knob to get it to kick in finally and then crank it back down to a listenable level.  Of course, in doing so, any alarm / snooze is now canceled and you simply have your radio on by virtue of having touched it once.  Not functional.