This is perhaps the worst alarm clock ever made
598213
This is perhaps the worst alarm clock ever made. You will need the instructions to do anything with this. Not intuitive in any way. The low setting of the display lights will light an entire room. Just try to turn this thing off when just woke up. Keeps excellent time. But who cares. Amazing piece of junk.
2075258
it gives me great pleasure to return this awful clock!  after an hour and 15 minutes of trying to set the correct time i found it's not possible. i'd set it to the whole minute, and 10 seconds later it would jump to the next minute.  the user has no control of the internal, hidden seconds; on any other clock the seconds start counting upon exiting, making it possible to set the clock to the whole minute.  i guess those with dementia aren't supposed to know, or care, that the clock is off by a minute.
the set buttons are strangely upside down, the brief instructions are useless so it's all trial and error, and the "morning, etc..." display is missing.  the only plus is that the rechargeable battery is built in so you don't have to buy batteries, and the display is up to snuff.
4904318
Instructions are so poorly written that I became frustrated and decided to return the alarm clock.
476185
worthless trash.  rarely am I moved to write a review for the tons of things I buy on amazon but this one 'earned' it.  believe the 1 star reviews and don't make the mistake i did.  i thought photoelectric, combo CO/Smoke/Fire alarm, what's not to like?  so I bought 6 in Feb 2014.  in mid November, one false alarmed 3 straight nights (and one day but of course 3 nights from 2-4am).  nothing like frantically trying to get the system to shut up and not having any idea how because it's not in the worthless instructions.  I finally identified the one blinking red as the false alarmer and pulled it from the ceiling and removed the battery and that finally stopped it.  Thanks for not providing that tip, Kidde.  I had just assumed I could hold down the main button to shut the system up, but not on a Fire alert!  Against my better judgement with sunk cost factoring in, i ordered another replacement and hoped that would solve it.  This morning (December 2) a new one upstairs has false alarmed instead after a few weeks of silence.  THese units are complete S-H-you-know-what.  If waking up at 3am and trying to hunt down the broken alarm, get a chair, yank it out of ceiling, and remove battery is your idea of fun, by all means buy this model.  Otherwise run FAR away.  I don't know if it's poorly designed circuits in the detector frying or what (various rumours abound on the internet).  I do know i've fallen for this twice and i'm done paying $45 a pop to have more fail in the future.
3901874
If  you like to woke up in the middle of the night with false alarm and beeps this is the one for you.
Awful product, stay away from this cheap, low quality product.
2902559
Perfectly obnoxious! I tend to sleep through my normal alarms, especially when my RLS keeps me up during the night, but this thing is impossible to sleep through.
4106424
This thing has loud voice prompts announcing every action it is going to do. And it cannot be turned off as you can see from one of the replies by manufacturer in the Q&A section. So if you forget to turn off that damn thing, then in the middle of the night it will shout "The battery is low". Do you like strange voices suddenly coming of out dark empty rooms? If yes, then this thing is right for you.
This is of course the result of poor design, where they want to put 100 options in just 3 buttons. I hate this kind of minimalism. And also the sound is really cheap.
3041912
This alarm went off in the middle of the night severel times for no reason. My poor husband had to rip it off the ceiling and when we couldn't remove the battery to stop the shrill beeping, he had to hit the "kill" switch, which apparently means the alarm is now useless. All at 3 am. I'm sure the neighbors hate us.
4217059
Purchased this alarm clock as a gift for my Son about two weeks ago.  There is really nothing good about this alarm except the "bed shaker", vibrator 12v output.  The alarm clock is about the same grade (or what some may refer to as quality) as most of the "as seen on TV" junk.  Very cheep, thin plastic, shoddy construction, overall cheep junk.  The alarm is supposed to be 113dB.  It's not.  The alarm is no louder than most average alarm clocks, absolutely nothing special.  There is a wheel to manually adjust the tone of the alarm, big deal!  Once again, nothing special.

The one redeeming part of this alarm is the "bed shaker" vibrator.  To call this a "bed shaker" is an overstatement.  It really doesn't shake the bed.  It vibrates in the bed.  If you sleep with it under the pillow it would most likely wake you up.

The "bed shaker" is supposed to be 12 volt but the power pack that supplies power to the clock is 9 volt. I plan to connect a car horn to the 12 volt "bed shaker" connection.  If that works without drawing too much current and burning up the alarm, then the name "Sonic Boom" might be fitting.
3710294
If I could give it minus 10 stars I would. What a piece of garbage. We can't get this thing to STOP going off. The Alarm will not stop going off and it's making us crazy. Ready to throw it away. What a waste of money!!!
4783994
Unfortunately, this product is so poorly made and awkward to use, that I would steer clear of it.  The battery backup never kept the correct time during power outages and has now totally failed, and the ability to adjust the time is now gone.  Until Daylight Savings Time returns, the clock is permanently one hour ahead during Eastern Standard Time, and I have to set the alarm one hour ahead in order to go off at the proper time.  The buttons are hard to reach, you have to use two hands to adjust the time (if/when that function still works).  Less than a year later, I'm shopping for a replacement.
2024361
I thought it'd be hard to go wrong with a digital clock.
I bought two and am sorry for it. It isn't even worth it to send them back.
The alarm sounds that are available are terribly obnoxious, very computerized sounds. It is supposed to be touch sensitive and yet if there is a bump in the night it lights up suddenly and wakes me up.
The instructions suck, but I was able to figure out how to program it. Every time you touch a button it beeps, so if you want to reset it for your spouse who gets up at a later time-you will wake them by the beeping happening or you have to take it out of the room to do it.
3140653
While the quiet secondhand sweep is great and the brief activating face light for quick time checks in the dark are good, I would not buy this again and I wish I didn't spend as much on it as I did. (1) The snooze is 4 minutes. In my experience, 9 minutes is average and 4 is hardly worth it. (2) There is nothing on the clock itself that indicates whether the alarm is on or off. This would be awful in a guest room or an AirBnB room. For myself, I still cant remember if the button should be up or down so I have no confidence (when Im sleepy) in an alarm being set and must set my phone alarm as back up. I don't want to think when Im trying to fall asleep. The whole reason to get this alarm was to get my phone out of my bedroom. (3) I missed the 30 day period to return it by 2 days, entirely my fault. I was called out of town and finally slept in my bed 2 nights in a row, and discovered this. The company is a machine with no flexibility on their return policy.

For sale - this alarm clock for $20, free shipping!
777089
DO NOT BUY THIS THING -- it is almost impossible to reliably set the alarms, so it is pretty much useless.  Just to qualify myself, I took AP classes in high school, was an honor student in college, graduated from CU Boulder, and have been using a  computer as a self-employed person without an IT dept since 1983.  It took me an hour and a half to figure out how to set the alarms and then they only worked for one 24-hour cycle because it is almost impossible to figure out how to shut off the music without shutting off the alarm.  There is no way to "read" whether or not the alarm is actually set (they call it "standby") on the front of the thing.  That is, you cannot tell whether it is in what they call "standby" mode by looking at the front of the thing.  And how you put it in "standby" (set the alarm to go off) depends on whether you have played a CD or the radio yourself (optionally) or whether it is playing because the alarm went off.  And, I repeat, you cannot tell by looking at it whether or not it is actually completely set - that is, in "standby."
1290820
purchased less than one month ago, the alarm went off for no apparent reason. Hush button only quieted it for 10 minutes at a time. Took it down, rapped it in towels, still went off. Set it out on our enclosed back porch, thought it had cleared itself just to find out it went off again about 2am; the neighbors called the police and we got woke up at 2:30am. After this think going off for 4 hours straight (every 10 minutes using the 'hush' button) then getting woke up at 2:30am by the police because it went off and disturbed the neighbors. This thing is junk and should be taken off the shelves. Give me an alarm I can pull the battery out of. What a waste of money. Fortunately I only purchased 1 for the top of our steps on the second floor.
4945478
I've used this for a few years now, after receiving it as a gift. While I generally like it, I'm not sure that I could recommend it. It's got the following notable problems:

* It randomly wakes up in the middle of the night, the screen going from dim (in my case, off) to bright, lighting up the room.
* It has no apparently ability to set a one-off alarm, just recurring, weekly alarm. If I have to get up at 5 AM to catch an airplane, I just shut off this alarm clock and use a backup one.
* The volume button layout is a poor attempt to be clever. There are two buttons, side by side. Normally one would hit the right button to make the sound louder, and the left button to make it quieter. Not with this clock, because somebody thought reversing those would be nicer for the button design. It's not--it's just confusing.
* The sound comes out of a scoop-shaped hole in the bottom front of the alarm clock, so if anything gets put on the table in front of the alarm clock, the sound is muted significantly.
* As others have mentioned, the volume doesn't go low enough and the brightness doesn't go low enough. It's either set to "off" or, like, "medium." There's no "low" setting. Metaphorically speaking.

When I got this, I thought that I could end my search for the perfect alarm clock. I see now that I cannot.
2402441
This has got to be the worst  clock ever!! It's a total piece of crap. The plug keeps  coming out so you are constantly resetting it, the alarm is horrible and the light never shuts off. Don't waste you money.