RCA RP3751 CD Clock Radio with Green Display

by RCA

Product Details

Product Manual [310kb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00000J05L
• Item model number: RP3751
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #258,547 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1999

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Fall asleep or wake up to the sound of your favorite CD or radio station with RCA's RP3751, a compact and remarkably good-sounding clock radio that also features dual alarms, a large green LED readout, and a minijack for headphone listening.

Unlike most clock radios, the RP3751 is a stereo unit, with a pair of side-firing 2.5-inch speakers that deliver a surprisingly full sound. It's not going to produce anything like high-fidelity sound, but at least the RP3751 tastefully sidesteps the tinny quality we associate with the majority of clock radios. But beware if you choose to wake to the beeper. Even with the Grad-U-Wake feature, it gets quite loud quite fast.

Because the RP3751 is a mere 6-inch cube, you can place it on a small or overcrowded night table without having to push aside your bedtime reading materials. We also liked the large LED readout, but we weren't so crazy about the dim radio dial, which can make it tough to find stations in a dark room.

The RP3751 is small and affordable, and it sounds very good. Despite our few gripes, RCA's RP3751 is strongly recommended. --Wayne Garcia

Pros:

• Remarkably good sound
• Compact and easy to place
• Headphone jack

Cons:

• Tuner display is too dark
• Alarm tone is quite loud

Product Description

w/ dual wake,AM/FM digital, ramp up alarm, Stereo CD

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

99 of 99 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, not great, product, September 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: RCA RP3751 CD Clock Radio with Green Display (Electronics)

I just received this product and generally like it. It is quite compact, and so fits easily on an overcrowded night stand. Most of the control inputs are buttons, which are easy to find and use. A couple of switches for the alarms are small however, and might cause trouble for some folks. The display digits are very large, so if you need corrective lenses, you should have little trouble reading the time at night. The brightness of the display can only by set bright or dim, by the way, and I use mine at dim. The sound quality is only so-so; but what can you expect for the price? The CD alarm mode lets you select a favorite cut to wake to, and also allows random and repeat plays. My only complaint has to do with the digital display when the snooze button is used. For some odd reason, when this feature is used, the display blinks on and off until the alarm goes off again. And it doesn't display the time. For example, if I choose track 5 to be my wake up song, and set 10 minutes as the "snooze" period, the display will blink "5" the entire 10 minutes. This could be quite annoying if you look at the clock and want to know the time, or if the blinking bothers you. The manual is okay, not detailed. The radio is not something that I will use. A dial is used to select the stations, so, that's kind of fussy and there are no presets.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good features with one exception, January 9, 2000

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"mindful-dot-com" (Oakland, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RCA RP3751 CD Clock Radio with Green Display (Electronics)

I liked all the features of this solid, easy to operate unit except one. A feature called "Graduwake" is advertised as being designed to wake you gradually. Now, one might think that gradually means over a period of, perhaps, minutes. However, the beep beep beep tone of the unit increases from soft to extraordinarily loud (hard to wake sleepers might enjoy this) within a period of no longer than 45 seconds, and more often within a period of about 15-20 seconds. This might be acceptible if the beeping always began very low. Unfortunately the beginning place for the beeping varies from low to medium, and occasionally (if the cd is playing at any volume whatsoever) the beeping begins full blast. Full blast beeping on this unit can wake you from 20 feet away or more.

If you are listening RCA, I would pay more for a unit that gave real control over the volume of the alarm tone, and the way it increases. I wake easily, and would like to avoid startling my spouse with these loud beeps. Of course I can wake to the radio or cd set a low volume, but the low volume stays low and I have no way of insuring I will awake without using the not-really-Graduwake. If you improve upon Graduwake to the point where it offers more control I'll give this unit away and buy a new one.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars CD Player Skips, August 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: RCA RP3751 CD Clock Radio with Green Display (Electronics)

The CD player on this clock radio skipped the very first time I tried to use it. I tried different CDs, I tried making certain it was on a very stable surface but it still skipped: about once every minute or so. I'm sending it back this week.