Customer Reviews

Clarity 600 Wake Assure Alarm Clock With Bed Shaker

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I love this clock because it wakes me up every time. I am deaf in one ear and am a deep sleeper. Until now, I haven't been able to find a clock that would awaken me reliably. I have to take medicine during the night, so I need a clock that will wake me up consistently. I use all three modalities together--alarm, light flasher, and bed shaker. I think the shaker has the most effect on me. It's not unpleasant, but it does get my attention. If I were to change anything about the clock, I would add the ability to set two separate alarms because sometimes I need to get up more than once before night's end. It would also be nice if one could make the numbers go in reverse when selecting an earlier hour for the alarm. However the clock and alarm are not difficult to set.

If i could give this alarm 0 stars I would. It is terrible. The lamp, snooze, and reset functions are all in the same button. The lamp is one thing but the snooze and the reset are the exact opposite things!! If you accidentally hit the snooze button twice, the thing shuts off. Countless mornings I'd wake up and not hear my alarm sounding wondering how it turned off. I originally bought this because after 2 1/2 years my sonic boom vibrator failed me and I received no support cause I was out of warranty. I was upset with the company. Today I just ordered a new sonic boom. I would pay the same for 2 1/2 good yrs out of sonic boom than for a lifetime with the wake assure. Terrible product design.

My wife will tell you that I could sleep through anything. My previous alarm clock was one of those that starts soft and gets louder. Unfortunately, I would subconsciously hit the snooze button on several instances before it got loud. As a result, I consistently got into work later than I'd like.

This clock is different. It has an alarm that starts loud and stays loud. The tone of the alarm and the loudness can be set. The flashing lamp is a nice feature too, although I would have been perfectly happy if the lamp just turned on instead of flashing; my previous one had a lamp control but it wasn't tied into the alarm, which made that feature mostly useless to me. I don't use the bed shaker, so I can't comment on it.

Let me clarify one thing that was not obvious and that I consider important: the snooze button acts as an on/off lamp control, whether the alarm is active or not. If the alarm is set to flash the lamp and you press the snooze once when the alarm first sounds, the lamp goes off; if you press it twice, the lamp stays on. If you have the clock set in Auto Snooze mode and you've turned on the lamp since the alarm first sounded, the lamp will flash when the alarm sounds again but will stay on when you press the snooze button once. This is well thought-out in my opinion.

Bought this product for a client. Works wonderfully. Able to get up and at 'em without relying on a staff member. Client had it plugged in and ready to go in a matter of minutes.

This is a 30 day review.

I am a sound sleeper and also hard of hearing, so a normal "loud" alarm won't cut it for me. My Sonic Boom clock is at least 2x louder than this one, but after 14 months the bed shaker quit working. I was never really happy with the bed shaker on the Sonic Boom because the on-off cycle was too fast. I thought Id try this clock.

PROS: The bed shaker is alot better than the Sonic Boom at waking me up. The on-off cycle is about 3 seconds compared to shy of one second on the Sonic Boom. I rate the bed shaker 5-stars.

CONS: 1) Others have commented on the snooze/reset button, and I agree that it is a poor design. 2) I can't get the alarm to be loud enough and the tone is too easy to change. I keep on having to adjust the tone to my liking. 3) The light on the alarm is a wimp compared to the Sonic Boom. I have not tried to plug in a lamp yet, but may try that later.

Right now I am using both alarm clocks; the Sonic Boom for the super-loud alarm and bright LED light built into the clock and the Wake Assure for the bed shaker. Most of the time the bed shaker will wake me up enough to hear the Sonic Boom that comes on 2 minutes later.

I only wish there was one alarm clock that would contain the PROS of both the Sonic Boom and the Wake Assure.

I bought this as a final attempt to waking up on time. I have purchased a dozen clocks that say super loud and they are not. So i thought maybe i could build one using car horns. So i started this quest and with many failures i decided to buy the Clarity 600.

It is perfect you can change the sould level and tone or pitch of the sound, you can hook up a hologen light up to it to flash and also act as a security light or just tap the snooze button and it will turn on. The vibrating disc that goes under the bed in nice comfy almost like a massage, but it does wake you up.


All in all i am 100% satisfies with this purchase

This is a great product. It shakes the bed so well, our cat won't get on the bed anymore! We bought this for our teenage daughter who is the soundest sleeper we've ever seen. She would sleep right through any other alarm! Or, turn it off in her sleep and never even remember it going off! Not with this alarm; it wakes her COMPLETELY 100% of the time!!! Highly, highly recommended!

Great alarm clock with light and vibration features. Only thing I do not like is the snooze button is also the light switch, which also causes the alarm feature to turn off if you use it with the alarm on.

Shaking alarm clocks are notorious for breaking. This one has not broken, but I did have to add a different bed shaker to make it strong enough for my son.

This is the clock I had before & I had it for a good 12 or more years! I knew I wanted this again. Why? Because I can plug it into my bedside lamp and use it as a reading lamp. A lot of flashing alarm clocks either rely on a wimpy light on the clock itself or you can plug it into a regular lamp but not use the lamp for anything else, like reading. With this lamp all you have to do is plug the lamp into the clock cord, turn on the lamp and use the the clock button conviently placed on top of the clock to turn it on or off.

So my scenerio is: I tap the button to turn the lamp on, set the alarm, read a bit, tap the button to turn the lamp off & go to sleep. When the alarm goes off the lamp flashes, waking me up. I tap the button & it goes into snooze mode. So if I don't get up right away it will flash the lamp again. I'm not sure how many times I could do this since I usually get up right away but I imagine I could do it a few times. Usually I manuelly turn off the alarm since I have no set time every morning when I need to get up.

Still I don't understand why people have a such a problem about the clock resetting when you tap that button to turn the alarm off. You have to ht it twice for the clock to go into that mode. All I can figure is that these people are so groggy they don't know they hit it twice. And that's their problem...not the clock's. With this day & age of technology we all have to keep learning new things and tapping once should be easy enough to learn even first thing in the morning. People just have to get out of that double click mode. Even computers have single click modes now...

All in all this routine worked well for me for about 10 years. Then the lamp connection broke down but the sound was working and I have dogs that pounce on me to get up. (I never used the bed shaker) When the dogs stopped pouncing I knew it was time for a new clock. And I am SO glad this clock is still around. Works for me!!!