Sangean RCR-24

Works well. Sound is good but too much bass. IN BLACK or WHITE! – Very tricky to set-up and set two alarms. alarm set will cancel out the Radio alarm They come on softly and can be snoozed with long Snooze bar, or turned off by hitting the Standby button . We wanted AM and FM, only need three stations, we selected three of the 15 presets.. No Digital radio, which is useless anyway! It can fail to pick up… Read more

stations in the suburbs! And takes a moment to start!

Alarm repeats for an hour until cancelled...

We wanted good sound from decent speakers, but this one has a little too much base, but OK louder while lying in bed. 2 x 2.25" 8ohm... No treble or bass settings, but have not seen a clock radio with any!

This has all the settings we needed... Has Auxillary in and earphones 3mm sockets

Has a Snooze, and a Sleep timer 15 to 120 minutes!!

The clock LEDs are great, and LARGE, and can be dimmed! 7 levels!!

It has a capacitor memory for settings. In the US it can have two batteries!

Uses 240v AC adapter 7.5v DC 0.8amp

Still have not managed to set the alarm radio. not clear in the instructions!

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We got ours from iBUYS, no worries Took several emails to get it all working.

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The last reply with most solutions.. These are problems with p8 in the Manual, and in the file on the Sangean web site!

We have a number of problems with the settings and the clarity of the manual on p8..

I managed to set the radio alarm, somehow, and it worked twice, failed again this morning.

The first few mornings the Alarm and the radio were set and the radio turn-on failed.

The ALARM 1 on ALARM setting, worked a couple of times.. before I managed to set a RADIO alarm..

Will they work if both turned on? One as Radio, one as Alarm!

Do they need to be set for different times to use both alarms?

It needs to set for the different times, if you set the same time, the alarm will according to Alarm 2 choose to wake up.

Can you change the Source or Station once set?

How?

It need to disabling/cancelling alarm setting and re-setting again.

What do... ONE ALL M-F and 5-5 mean during the alarm setting procedure?

ALL -> every day

M-F ->Monday - Friday

S-S -> Saturday – Sunday

Trying to change SOURCE here fails and won't select by Pre-set!

It needs to disabling/cancelling alarm setting and re-setting again.

Could not select the station via a pre-set Number!

It need to pre-set the station at first.

Why did 522 and 875 display while selecting AM when I first attempted a setup?

It the default value.

It would drop out of the sequence while I read the next step!

Selecting the Volume for the radio alarm just stays at 7 !!!

Won't change! Nothing in the manual to suggest this is the MAX Vol and can only be adjusted down!!

The buzzer max Volume is 7.

At this point, while amending Alarm 2, with Alarm 1 already set, the TUNING button only changes the display from m--f to 5--5 ALL ONE ???

The Alarm 1 and Alarm 2 is individually, we tested the RCR-24, could not re-appear this issue.

The only way to select ALARM 2, was to hold it and go through the whole setup steps again!

Then the Speaker icon flashes and the display defaults back to ALARM 1 !!!!

Toggling from Alarm one to Alarm setting 2 does not HOLD it switches back to No1 !!

How do you change from one alarm to the other, or select both

I think I did it once, but is NOT mentioned in the Manual!

How do you change from one to the other or select BOTH?

If want to select Alarm 1 or Alarm 2, they also need to go through the whole setup steps, because need to confirm the setting is that you want.

How do you stop the EMR or RF interference from a nearby phone or transformer interfering with the sound?

On 666 we have to rotate the radio 90degress to stop the buzz, seems OK on 846 and is OK on FM!

Is there a way to change the Bass/Treble to more treble please?

The RCR-24 has not EQ setting.

No good on the fringe – This bedside radio looks the goods but after a year and a half it is lucky to not become airborne. The display for time/station is good and functionality of buttons while a little confusing at first is OK, the problem is the reception. Virtually none of the AM stations are retrievable for me at 50Km out in the SE of Melbourne especially early in… Read more

the morning. The pick up and quality of sound for the FM is also "iffy" with stations plagued by static or losing reception. This requires you to re acquire your station using the search function. The ABC stations are OK.

It reminds me of the Mr Bean episode when he was trying to tune his TV. All in all don't bother with this product if you are on the fringe.