Excellent clock radio
Pros:
Outstanding sound quality for speaker size, digital tuning, two alarms, quality construction
Cons:
Display much too bright for bedside and not adjustable
The Bottom Line:
A well-made clock radio with good FM sensitivity and excellent sound. You have to live with a too-bright display.
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Author's Review
I've been using the Teac R2 for about a month, and it has many virtues. Good materials, construction, and finish, sensitive FM reception with the antenna wire (and we live in a problematic reception area), two alarms, digital radio tuning, rechargeable battery, input for mp3 player.
We wake to a classical music radio station, and the biggest plus of the R2 is SUPERIOR sound from the speaker, given its size - 3" - and the radio's price point (advertised in a sale at $30 and there was a $5 store coupon). Nothing I've heard anywhere close to that price range can begin to touch it for sound quality.
But there's one *major* design flaw. The very clear display has three brightness levels, but they're not user adjustable. The middle level, which is what shows most of the time, is fine from across the room but far too bright for a bedside table. Really stupid design. I lean an old floppy disk against it at night to block it - who needs to see what time it is at 3:20 AM anyway? - and that works fine, but it's annoying to have to compensate for a truly lame and user-unfriendly design decision.
The quality of the sound is more than a trade-off, though.
