Timex Dual Alarm Clock Radio With AM/FM and MP-3 For iPod Playthrough Black (No Remote) Control TM80BR

by Timex

Product Details

• Item Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• ASIN: B002NW8W9Y
• Item model number: TM-80
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,347 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 3, 2009

Product Description

Timex TM80 Dual Alarm Clock Radio with Full-function Remote Control

Customer Reviews

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Full featured clock radio, February 3, 2010

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Joe Bobe (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Timex Dual Alarm Clock Radio With AM/FM and MP-3 For iPod Playthrough Black (No Remote) Control TM80BR (Electronics)

After using this for a month, I'm still very pleased with it. The pros far outweigh the cons here.

First and best, this thing sounds GOOD. There are 5 tone presets to choose from. The ported speaker is able to produce amazing sound quality. 5 stars for this alone.

Clock displays time, and when no music is playing, the date. Automatic DST switch. Backlight has 4 levels one of which is off. Backlight color and display text is low contrast, hard for me to see.

Battery backup keeps all your settings.

It remembers quite a bit: If you hit the power button, whatever you were listening to is restored, be it MP3 or radio. If you hit the sleep button, it applies the volume setting in use the last time it turned itself off. If you hit the play button, it plays, from the beginning, whatever MP3 was playing when last turned off.

Sleep times of 120, 90, 60, 30 and 15 mins. After setting the sleep mode, if you click the sleep button again, it displays the time remaining before cutoff. When its time, the sound is gently faded out.

Random and repeat settings for MP3 play. Folder button so you can browse memory contents. ID tag info scrolls while track is played. Select SD slot or USB port for source. Line in for other stereo input. Recessed well for USB drives, with a cover. SD card sticks up a few millimeters from it's slot.

Full featured remote. Yes, it is handy if the clock is just out of reach on the nightstand.

Wake to: radio, mp3, buzzer. There is no way to select "wake to random mp3", but I get around that by putting a 3 second silent mp3 in the memory, select that as the wakeup track, and set for random play.

12 station memories for the radio, arranged in 3 banks, 2 for FM stations and 1 for AM.

The cons:

FM reception is so so. The stations I can get all sound good, but can't pull in distant ones.

The buttons on the front [sleep, power, alarms, wake to, radio preset bank selecter] are impossible to distinguish by touch. Adding a dot of hot glue to a few of them helped quite a bit.

The volume control feels like nothing is there. It works fine, just feels weird.

Can't read the time unless I put on my glasses.

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If I didn't already own one, I'd buy it again!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars unreliable, May 11, 2010

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T. Rusco - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Timex Dual Alarm Clock Radio With AM/FM and MP-3 For iPod Playthrough Black (No Remote) Control TM80BR (Electronics)

This was given to me as a birthday gift. I requested it, based upon other reviews.
For the most part, I agree with other reviewers ... radio reception is so-so, buttons hard to distinguish in the dark, etc.
Primarily, I wanted a USB/MP3 player capability.
Unfortunately, my unit has a problem ... it occasionally, randomly freezes up.
When playing MP3s from a USB stick, it will suddenly go silent. Usually, after 30 seconds to 15 minutes, it will start up again where it left off.
But 3 times, it has completely frozen. Last night, I set the "sleep mode" to 90 minutes, and had it playing MP3s from the USB stick. When I woke up this morning, the time said "241" (no colon flashing), and the information display was also frozen with part of the information (at the time) shown. Just to be sure it wasn't just a "pause", I waited until the time I had set for the alarm ... but nothing happened!
When it freezes up, nothing will work ... pressing all buttons, many, many times, does nothing. The volume control does not respond. It can't be turned off or on. Unplugging the power from the unit does NOT fix this ... unless I also remove the back-up battery, and then reset everything from new (time, date, time zone, etc.).
I tried the same USB stick in my car radio, and it played without a problem.
I hope mine is a fluke ... but I don't dare use the MP3 function for "sleep mode" any more, for fear the alarm won't work and I'll lose out on a job.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pleased, April 19, 2010

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R. Hagood (austin) - See all my reviews
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Only bought this for mp3 playback for a childs "night-time music" from a usb drive. Could not justify buying an ipod for this purpose only. Had used a cd-mp3 player for about 6 months before it stopped reading disks, plus it was much larger for my need. This is the second one for our new baby, the first was bought before circuit city went out of business, and is still doing its job perfectly. I have not used the alarm features ever. The radio reception could be a little better the few times I have used it.

For the price, size, sound quality, and intended purpose you cannot find a better one or another at all for that matter.