Customer Reviews

Sonic Alert SBD375ss Sonic Boom Dual Alarm Vibrating Alarm Clock

5 star:		(15)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

I'm a student at college, and normally in High School I either don't hear my alarm or I turn it off without even waking up. After getting this alarm I haven't had much problems getting up. I use both the pillow shaker and the beep. The pillow shaker is enough to wake me up a point where I can hear things but still in a light sleep, and the loud beeping noises does the final blow by making me annoyed enough to move around and find the snooze button (which is very small, but there is a "bump" on the button when you are trying to find it and hit it. But either way, once you are pretty much awake, and know that in college missing classes might screw you up for the semester... you tend to get up really fast after the alarm goes off. I normally can get up about an hour before classes with this clock :)

My bed is lofted on the top, and the wires are long enough to be plugged in and some slack for the shaker in my pillow, great product :)

It is true that is looks cheap and seems to be lacking in the materials department. But the function outweighs the look of the alarm clock. If you don't know what kind of alarm clock to get and you are afraid of over sleeping... You can't go wrong with this :) There is a dial to change the tone of the beeping from low to high, and a volume control dial from Off to 10.

First few times, the pillow shaker might scare you a bit... Recommend testing it while awake to get used to the vibration :)

Hopefully your roommate also has the same classes, since it could wake him/her up... depending how they sleep.

I wrote a review of the Wake Assure bed shaker/alarm clock expressing my disappointment with its performance. That alarm clock's shaker died within the first year (under warranty) and then once more after the warranty expired, forcing me either to replace the shaker or go with a new product entirely.

I went with a new product entirely: the Sonic Boom bed shaker/alarm clock. I am a hearing-impaired graduate student. I sleep far too little to count on waking up naturally; I need something to kick me out of bed, and I figured a powerful shaker underneath my pillow would do just the trick.

And what a job this alarm clock did! Until the shaker died 3 months after I purchased the clock.

Yes, it's still under warranty. But it's just a freaking bed shaker. Why do two companies have so much trouble getting such a basic thing right? I find myself thinking that these shakers might be engineered to fail. Little else explains why they cost $35 a pop when the alarms are only $45 total. The replacement shakers are quite a windfall for these companies, I bet. In any case, the USPS is making a mint off of me ($10 to mail the alarm back!).

Buy at your own risk. It's no more reliable than Wake Assure. You'll be spending repair money out the wazoo.

My 19 yr old daughter can sleep through most alarm clocks! Well, that has changed. After receiving this clock, she has not been late for college or work. Finally! The only complaint is that it also wakes up her roommates.

I was reluctant in buying this alarm clock after reading some reviews on here. I have to disagree with the negative ones. I have had a hard time getting up early in the morning for work after working late. But with this new alarm clock, I have yet to be late from oversleeping. It does have a weird buzz, unlike any clock I have owned but does the job especially with the vibrating attachment. Would recommend to others.

People think this is loud? It does sound different, and it is not quiet, but it is not really all that loud. Between the bed shaker and the audio alert, it does get me out of bed.

But then the problem: The 'off' button is the same size and is easier to locate than the 'snooze' button. So, if you are at all bleary eyed and stupid in the morning like I am, you are far more likely to turn it off than you are to hit snooze. I bet the other reviewer who said it sometimes does not work right was just turning it off in his sleep rather than hitting snooze. In my book this is a fatal design flaw.

Nice big display; But it just does not do the job.

Inconsistent performance is not something you look for in an alarm clock, but that is what I got. Other reviewers had mentioned this problem, but I thought I'd take a chance. When I received the clock, I tested it about 10 times and got different results each time. Sometimes the alarm only lasted 5 seconds and then shut off on it's own - I need more than that to wake me up! Other times it lasted, 15, 20 or 30 seconds and then it shut off. As with most alarms, I expected the clock to go off until I woke up and turned it off, but not so!! I returned this clock to Amazon and won't be ordering a replacement.

I purchased the Sonic Alert SBD375ss Alarm Clock because it claimed to have a 24 hour format display. Unfortunately, it turns out that the 24 hour format display only works correctly with 50 Hz power, not the 60 Hz power we have in the United States. I did open the clock up to see if it was possible to change this, but the clock chip that is used (Sanyo LM8562) will only support the 24 hour format when in the 50 Hz mode. Other than this problem, the clock is very nice. The large green display is easy to read and the alarm can be very loud. I have not tried the shaker yet.
I have only had the clock for about one month. I gave it three stars because the 24 hout display format is unusable here in the United States.

If this alarm clock doesn't wake you up, you have some serious issues. This alarm will force you to get out of bed in order to shut it off. It's also not annoying enough that you wake up in a bad mood. It's just right, effective .

I must be a hard sleeper; this clock is still not loud enough to wake me up. Thank God its got the vibrating pad.

Likes: The big display, vibrating pad and the overall size. You can even very the volume and how fast it beeps

Dislikes: Cost, the buttons I find them to be a little hard to hit with out moving the clock. The clock gets warm when the display is on high.

I have this clock above my head and the vibrating pad between the bed and the pillows. Because disk vibrates against the wood of the bed it makes more noise than the clock does.

Knowing what I know now I would not buy this clock again.

The Sonic Alert SBD 375sss vibrating alarm is the only alarm clock that will wake me with my hearing aids removed. The 'buzz' feature is not loud enough to wake me from a deep sleep but the vibrating feature really works!