Customer Reviews

RCA RP3755 AM/FM Dual Wake CD Clock Radio

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(10)
1 star:		(41)

 

 

This should be the ideal cd alarm clock. It is feature rich with programmable stations, digital tuner, cd playback, dual alarm, being able to wake up to buzzer, radio or cd and having it be different for both alarms. A good display with a dimmer, headphone jack and relatively small footprint. But my experience has been subpar, and primarily because of cd playback. This system will often think there is no disc, will struggle through tracks, buzzing in and out and often just shutting down cd playback. And this is with brand new cds that have no scratches and play perfectly anywhere else. Discs also can get very hot in the system. The unit lasted a few months and now cd playback is useless. I would like someone to make an attractive, affordable cd alarm clock, with all the features of this RCA (and a 2, 5, 7 day alarm cycle would also be nice, as well as line-in), but put some production values into it. As it is, I think this is now discontinued. Do not buy.

My number one criteria in my search for a clock radio is a digital tuner. If you set a radio station you want to know that you are on that station. Having an analog dial be off slightly may mean you will not hear what you expect or maybe you will hear nothing at all. I am not aware of any other digital tuner clock radio close to this price. This one seems to perform fine. The CD is a good feature, and the unit comes with a CD of interesting sounds. I have been waking lately to mission bells and birds, and it beats the bad news on the radio!

The controls are reasonably straight forward once you get the hang of it. The clock brightness can be lower for night time, although it could be even a little dimmer.

Overall not a bad radio and I got mine at a good price.

I just purchased one of these clock radios and really like it. You can put a cd in and wake to the track of the cd you want to hear, plus with the two separate alarms, you can set the second alarm to sound with a ramp up tone in case you wouldn't wake up to the music. Great sound for a compact system. Directions are easy to follow, just read them and program the buttons with ease. Plus it also comes with a nature cd with lots of different sounds such as birds and stream sounds. I am thinking of purchasing a second radio for my other room. It can also be programmed with the nap setting to wake you up after so many minutes, and a sleep setting to let you fall asleep to the radio or cd, then it will turn of after the time you set it. Just press a button and a motorized door opens up to insert cd then closes. Dimmer switch on the back to adjust the brightness of the display. Great little system.

I Bought this item for my son for christmas almost 2 yrs ago. After many nights of me complaining about his alarm going off at all hours of the night,and telling him to read the directions so he can set it correctly. I have found that there is a ghost in his unit. I have checked his alarm settings for both of the alarms and they appear to be ok. His alarm went off from 11:30pm until 1:30 am last night when we finally unplugged it. Now that I have done some research it appears we are not the only ones with the ghost in there unit.

If you do not have a problem being up all night due to the alarm picking and choosing what time it wants to go off then this is the unit for you.

I personally would not recommend this item to anyone. I doubt I will purchase any other RCA items as I should have learned from the last items purchased they are no good.

A disappointed customer

Initially, this system seems ideal. It has a great design and the alarm feature, while very difficult to learn how to use, works fine. The sound is actually even decent for the typical clock radio. There is one problem--that ever-present humming. Maybe it's just my ears, but whenever I play CDs, at low to moderate volumes, there seems to be this constant high-pitched whistle--I think it's from the CD spinning around. At any rate, I returned the clock pretty early on. I never tried another one, but if you buy this, keep a look out for that annoyance. It ruined the product for me.

I have to corroborate the other reviews about the CD player--I'm returning mine today because it NEVER worked. Non-functional right out of the box. Absolutely ridiculous. I like the design a lot--more than any other model--but the CD player is kind of a critical component here.... I'm off to buy the sony version which seems to have received much better reviews!

Also, on another note, there is a lot of "background" hissing from the speakers. Very noticable when using the radio alarm at low volumes.

I only gave this a one-star rating instead of a zero (based on design only). However, the quality control of the CD player is questionable. The first time we purchased this product, we had to exchange it because the CD player was not recognizing the disks. The disks in the one we own now skip and has a tracking problem.

First of all, let's face it this is one cool looking alarm clock. It just plain looks cool. Okay that was redundant, but I've had one of these for a while and I know of what I speak.

And unlike most things that look cool it works. Irregardless of what other reviews say, I've yet to find a CD that this doesn't not work with. It's reliable and, yes you have to read two pages of the manual before the controls make sense, but once you've done that you're good to go.

Okay, for you self-explanatory-interface people, crack a manual, it won't kill you and once you know how it works it's like riding a bike.

This is one conversation piece as effective as it is impressive.

I had no problem with the CD as others appear to have had but I've only had the unit for 5 days. My disappointment was with the sound and display. There was a background humming/warbling noise on both AM/FM at various times which would go away when the radio was switched off, then on again---so I knew it wasn't just poor reception. As for the display, I can barely even distinguish the numerals at night---for all intents and purposes it can't be read from a distance of over 18 inches so if you're putting it on a nightstand, think again. As far as I'm concerned, the best displays for any digital clock remain the illimunated red, green, blue, etc. LED's---NOT LCD's with backlit backgrounds.

I received this clock radio for Xmas. Within days, it was skipping like crazy when playing the higher tracks of CDs. Later, it was skipping no matter where it was playing on the CD. I couldn't believe that RCA would put out such a cruddy piece of electronics. Come to think of it, we have a couple of inexpensive RCA boomboxes around our house, and they're all pretty awful too--they have major tracking problems. The moral of the story: don't buy RCA's CD players.