SONY ICF-CD837 AM/FM Stereo Clock Radio with CD Player

by Sony

Product Details

Product Manual [141kb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00001ZT4V
• Item model number: icfcd837
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #99,677 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1999

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

This model of the Sony Dream Machine line, which comes with a built-in CD player with shuffle/repeat, is designed to add the features of a CD stereo to your wake-up routine. It has 3D surround-sound speakers, including a centralized woofer. The Voiceplus system verbally announces the time and guides you through alarm setup and other features. With the nature sound alarm you can wake to the sound of a flowing stream or bird song. The alarm can use any track on the CD to wake you up, and the phase-locked-loop synthesized tuner has five random memory presets for easy, one-button tuning of the AM/FM radio. The unit also calculates daylight savings time.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

143 of 146 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Best sounding CD - clock, November 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: SONY ICF-CD837 AM/FM Stereo Clock Radio with CD Player (Electronics)

Sound is great. Excellent bass. But the clock functions is ........not good. 1. No battery backup. Need reset after power outage for more than 10-20 minutes. 2. Talks to you after power outage. I don't care to be waken during a short power outage. 3. Difficult to set alarm in the Dark 4. Difficult to turn off in the dark. 5. No timer function. 6. too big

THe sound is really good. I hate to return it but I did.

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Sound BUT LACKS SEVERAL CONVENIENCE FEATURES, July 11, 2000

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Grieg Leonard (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SONY ICF-CD837 AM/FM Stereo Clock Radio with CD Player (Electronics)

What it lacks is a remote control for this price, a battery back-up, the annoyance of waking you up if there is a short power shortage, the inconvenient place the button is for DST it can easily be hit when you wake up, and the inconvenience of setting anything on this when is dark room.

37 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Now, I'm happy... top-of-the-line!, January 17, 2000

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Ron "Ron in California" (Westlake Village, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SONY ICF-CD837 AM/FM Stereo Clock Radio with CD Player (Electronics)

I reviewed the Sony ICF-CD820 model and was disappointed (see review). So I upgraded to the ICF-CD873. Now I am happy. This unit is sooo much better engineered. The Mega Bass port produces a very good, rich, Bose-like sound for its size. The AM/FM Tuner has digital tuning which is worth the upgrade. You can tell it is a recent design because AM goes to 1710 KHz. Both AM and FM are sensitive. It is definitely a high-end clock radio. You can either choose a voice synthesized message with display or just the display. When you touch the button, it will TELL you the time. And, in the morning, it will announce the time and then begin the radio or CD. It also has dual alarms and a sound generator. You can awake to a river sound, birds, CD or radio. (Trick: Since it has two alarms, you can set one to go to sleep and one to awake, because the alarms last for one hour... go to sleep with the river or birds.) It also has a Sleep mode (15, 30, 60, etc.), but it does not work with the river and birds sounds (unless you do the above trick). I wish it had more than five AM-FM presets. You can also choose which CD track to awake, instead of just the first track on the CD. It even has a DST Adjustment button for Daylight Savings Time, but be careful not to hit it, you may wake up an hour later! (It DOES have a small sun as an indicator on the display for DST and the small button is toward the back.) The display is a yellowish color, which may make the numerals hard for some to see in the dark without glasses. My wife and I are very pleased with the unit. Ron in CA