Emerson CKS1900 SmartSet Dual Alarm Clock Radio with AM/FM Digital Tuning, Auto Time Setting, 20 Presets, Jade Green LED Display, Snooze, Sleep Timer & Battery Backup

I bought this clock because I wanted something simple for my bedside table, and so far it’s been a good choice. I like that it sets the time automatically and has two alarms, which makes it easy to use. The green display is clear without being too bright at night, and the snooze button works well. I also like having the battery backup in case the power goes out. The radio is decent, although the sound quality could be better. Overall, it’s a nice basic alarm clock that’s easy to use and does what it’s supposed to do.

This alarm clock is what you want if you’re looking for the most economical alarm that can at minimum play radio for the alarm. It’s not intuitive to set up, but I was fine with that. There’s no backlight for the buttons at the top and they’re a little hard to read, but since that’s the worst thing about a $15 alarm clock that does everything else I want it to do surprisingly well, I’ll take it. Fwiw there’s a review on here from noname that says they’re frustrated the clock failed after 6 months - I don’t think it actually failed them based on how they described what happened. I think they had a grid outage and forgot or didn’t know to put batteries in it to back it up. I wish I could respond to their review so they could say if they did that or not. If you’re looking for a very well designed, high quality, wifi-enabled, midrange radio alarm this isn’t your best bet because the tradeoff for the price is it’s a little less than intuitive to set up, and is lacking some modern features. If you’re looking for a cheap alarm and you don’t care about radio, there’s $10 alarm clocks out there that are easier to set up than this one. If you don’t care whether it’s easy to set up, it’s actually a pretty awesome radio for the price. You can even set an alarm to only go off on weekdays, and to adjust to daylight savings time automatically. I’m honestly amazed it wasn’t more expensive.

Kiddo needed a reliable alarm clock and since electronics like computers and cellphones aren’t allowed in the bedroom, I was looking for something. I wanted: 1. A radio alarm option. Not some annoying blood pressure inducing BEEP HONK RAWR. Check. 2. A digital display that is easy to read. Check. The display color is fixed but you can dim it quite a bit. 3. Easy to setup. Meh. The buttons have teeny tiny black engraved markings on a black plastic background. So as long as you can read it, it will be ok. I had to use the instructions to setup but i was pretty easy. The clock can accommodate DST, but since we don’t recognize DST here I was able to turn it off. You can also Preset radio stations so that’s fun, but it’s not like a car stereo where there’s button’s 1-6 or whatever. A little fun thing I liked was a gap at the bottom of this clock where you can fold up the instructions and squish them into the cavity. I used a little washi tape covering the cavity so that the instructions don’t fall out but also don’t get ripped when i pull the tape off.. you can use blue tape as well. I had to take off one star for the tiny black engraved font on the black background. Lastly, this is the second one I bought bc kiddo said the first one was “broken” after about a year of use. Friends, it was not broken. It just needed the button battery (for the persistent memory) to be changed.

I had to search for a while, both locally and online to find a clock radio that offers AM radio. This one was inexpensive and had an "Amazon recommended" note in the description so I used that as a deciding factor. The readout on this is green; through experience, I've learned that blue lights are the brightest and red the least annoying if you prefer a dark room. Green is somewhere in the middle. This one offers a dimming mode for the readout - there are four options from very bright to dim and it was easy to find a setting that works for me. The instructions tell you to simply plug the unit into the socket and the time will automatically set itself to Eastern time. There are instructions to reset if you live in a different time zone which is a good thing, since when I plugged in, the clock did set itself - to exactly two minutes earlier than the actual time. There is an option to set the date, but I'm not interested in that in the middle of the night so I haven't done that. No date shows on the readout and I don't know what it would look like if the date was set. To turn on the radio you have to hold the "on" button down until the station numbers appear, and then wait about 5 seconds for it to turn on. The radio sound is slightly tinny, but not annoyingly so. All settings are made by small, round buttons on the top of the clock. Most of the buttons have two different functions, which can be confusing. The functions are etched into the buttons and clock case with no color differentiation so you're reading black words and symbols on a black case, and in very small print. I have "senior eyes" and find it difficult to see the function of each button. Because of that, and minimal instructions (also in very, very small print) in the manual, my efforts to find and set a radio station led to accidentally setting both wake up alarms. At first, I couldn't figure out why the radio kept turning itself on an hour to an hour and a half after I turned it off. When I figured out what was happening and couldn't find any instructions on how to unset the alarm, I called the Emerson customer service number in the instruction manual. That led to a classic, machine-answered "press one for service, press two for radio," etc., which, when I had pressed the final selection, led to the recording saying "good-bye" and hanging up on me. Three times. I requested a return slip from Amazon and was offered a call from them to discuss the problem. I accepted the offer and received a call within minutes. The person who called took a few minutes to research what I explained, and ultimately gave me accurate directions to turn off the unwanted alarm and correct the time setting. With that resolution, I kept the clock radio. I gave four stars because it's a decent clock radio, one star for accuracy as the instructions are incomplete (no info on turning the alarm), three for sound quality due to the tinniness of sound, and four for value because despite the issues, it does what it says it will do. Update: I've had this clock radio since 9/19, so just over six months. Last night, after going to bed after 1 am, I awakened hours later and looked at the time - the clock read 12:54 am. I checked my phone, and the actual time was 5:57 am. (By the way, the clock loses a minute every month or so.) This morning I unplugged and re-plugged it as it is supposed to set itself when you do this. It did not work. Additionally, the read January 1, 2017 - probably before it was manufactured. Saved radio stations were also lost. I have lowered my rating from four stars to one because a clock radio that malfunctions after six months is not worth owning.

At first, the clock was an immediate turn-off to me, because it looked difficult to know how to change settings. Can't say settings are obvious, so I thought it would be difficult to use. I debated returning it. But when I tried it, I quickly learned it, and now it is easy, and I love it for that reason. It is a great clock, and great buy, and now I have to say a great design for all those settings. It's manual page is quite clear (but is necessary first time). It's also extremely easy to read it at a distance.

The time work great and updates as listed. The radio is trash no good signal on any Station

I really like this little clock radio.. I can see the time easily now.. As soon as I plugged it into the power it instantly set the time itself within 5 seconds.. Also good sound on the radio.

Works perfectly for my purposes.

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Sehr schönes Design aber in Deutschland leider nicht verwendbar. Eingangsspannung 120 Volt, die Zeitzonen für Amerika bis Hawaii.

No funciona

I received an Emerson SmartSet Alarm Clock Radio with AM/FM Radio, Dimmer, Sleep Timer and .9" LED Display, CKS190 from the UK Amazon website. When I plugged it in it showed the display briefly before going dead. I have now discovered that it is only suitable for 120V 60Hz AC power and the UK is 240V! This information is not available on the Amazon UK website and one wonders why it is even advertised there and I find that I am not the first to point this out to Amazon. I have raised this issue days ago and have still not had the courtesy of a reply. I expect a full refund.

Bright colour and good