If only the radio worked!!

Reviewer Comments: I THOUGHT I had found the perfect alarm clock when I bought this on Wednesday. Nice slim stylish design, sound is decent for the small speakers, plays my iPod, pleasant soothing nature sounds to fall asleep, relax around the house or wake up to, the light on the clock is a cool blue and can be dimmed or even turned off completely, and even the basic alarm beep is gentle and not jarring like most alarms.

UNFORTUNATELY however, the RADIO reception leaves a LOT to be desired. I took the first unit back today and exchanged it for a new one, but this one is just as bad. It will pick up a station fine, and then if I touch the unit or even walk around the room it will develop not only static, but horrible feedback noises that are INTOLERABLE. The first one I bought was worse - when trying to tune in a station, I got really weak signals and then another station’s music playing loudly over the top of the station I had actually selected - in fact, it played the same music over the top of every single station, so it was basically untunable.

I’m really sad because otherwise it’s a great little unit. I don’t understand why after 100 years it is so hard to make a basic radio that just WORKS! It’s like the fancy cell phones that take photos, send email, etc. but the actual phone reception and sound is lousy. I guess some people don’t care about a radio if they can play their iPod, but if you’re going to include a feature on a product, just make it work for crying out loud! I was even thinking of trying out the iSound Spa Max model, but I just read some reviews on here that the radio reception is just as horrible on those models, too. Arrrghh!

I’m thinking at this point I will keep it, but I am really frustrated that I have to sacrifice the radio functionality just to have the other features that I like.

Originally posted at HoMedics (legalese)