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Enjoy crystal-clear music with this Insignia™ Narrator Advanced HD Radio NS-CLHD01 tabletop alarm clock radio that features 10 AM and 20 FM presets for enjoying your favorite stations. The dual alarm lets you select multiple wake times to suit your schedule.
Product Features
From our expanded online assortment; not available in all Best Buy stores
HD Radio tuner
Delivers CD-quality audio. The 10 AM and 20 FM station presets let you find your favorite programming with ease. HD2/HD3 channels offer expanded listening options.
2.4" color LCD display
Clearly displays station, song and artist information provided via Program Service Data (PSD). Artist Experience broadcasts album art and other images to enhance your listening experience.
Bookmark
Lets you store information about radio content.
Dual alarm
Lets you choose multiple wake times to accommodate your schedule. Snooze function lets you enjoy a few extra minutes of sleep.
IAAIS-compliant design
Features voice responses to simplify operation for visually impaired users.
Headphone jack
Enables private listening. The 3.5mm jack allows easy connection of compatible audio devices.
Posted by: classicalremedy from New Orleans on 12/29/2012The menu and select buttons will not work. Both of them simply beep when you press them but nothing more happens. I cannot change from accessibility mode since Select button doesnt work. Also, all Menu functions are inaccessible due to that button not functioning. $100 for something that doesn't fully work is unacceptable in today's market and I'm frankly surprised it's still offered by Best Buy.
6 out of 8 found this review helpful.
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Won't get Reader Radio Stations I bought it for.
3
Posted by: Salty1 from Kansas on 08/13/2012I bought this for my husband to listen to reader radio stations. The setup instructions to receive the stations was somewhat confusing. After trying to find the reader radio stations I talked to someone at the station they told me the problem was stations have to have a signal assigned by the FCC and most of them will not do that because of the expense involved so I felt like the promotion on this item was somewhat misleading.
8 out of 11 found this review helpful.
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First two didn't work
1
Posted by: glentall from Michigan on 08/08/2012I am in the process of ordering my third unit. I haven't bought three because I really like the unit and am giving them away as gifts -- I am buying the third because the first two didn't work. After I ordered and picked up the first one, I took it home to check it out before I gave it to my blind father-in-law. I plugged it in and NOTHING happened. I tried everything to make it work. I used my voltmeter to check that the plug-in AC-to-DC power supply was working #it was#. So, I called and was told I should order another one and return the first one to the store. I did the exchange and asked the clerk if we could test the second one before I took it. She plugged it in and the display came on so we thought it was working. I gave it to my father-in-law and he began using it. He called me a few days later saying that the radio wasn't functioning correctly. As we worked with it, we found that neither the "Menu" button nor the "Sel" button worked. Each time we pressed either of them, all we got was a "beep." This really makes the radio almost worthless because you can't get into the menu system to change anything. We again tried everything we could think of (disconnecting power with and without the batteries, pressing and holding every button while plugging in the power and/or pressing the power button, etc.) So, I am going to try one more. My father-in-law really wants it because there are no other radios (that we know of) designed to help blind people by providing "talking" controls. It is really disappointing if this radio has been "shipped" before proper testing was done. Based on our own experience (and other comments on this site), this radio could still have some design or component issues. I normally don't post reviews, but to have two turkeys in a row -- something is worng.
14 out of 14 found this review helpful.
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Not bad but leaves room for improvement
4
Posted by: z06racer66 from Elk River, MN on 08/02/2012Overall, I'm fairly satisfied. I use it at work and I like that it sounds fine at low volumes (this is where my last analog radio failed). I've had this radio for 4 weeks now and it locked up on me about 5 times. The radio will still work but the buttons or the display are non-functional. You need to unplug the unit and then plug it back in. The presets are still there but the time and bookmarks are lost. I wish I could force it to use FM even if the station is broadcasting in HD. Some stations near me don't broadcast much song information in HD but they support RBDS in FM. The reception for the unit I don't think is any better or any worse than other radios that I've used in the past. The sound quality isn't too bad considering the size of it. It's definitely not a hi-fi system but it isn't bad. Finally, it's a clock radio, how could they have forgotten to add the sleep timer!?
Pros:
HD radio
RBDS support
Cons:
Occasional lock up. Need to pull the power to reset it.
No sleep timer
Unable to force FM if the station has a HD station.
6 out of 8 found this review helpful.
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limited functions
3
Posted by: dhfyrht from Maryland USA on 08/01/2012I bought this alarm clock radio to listen to night time baseball games during the work week “GO ORIOLES!” I needed the HD to get a clear reception and that part of the radio is outstanding; the game comes in clear as a bell. The problem is… this is the first alarm clock radio I have owned in 20 years (I’m 56) that doesn’t have a sleep timer function. We all like to hit the sleep timer button and fall asleep listing to the radio. The Engineers at Insignia dropped the ball on this one. I wanted to return it but I needed to hear the game. I ended-up buying a timer for the plug and turn it off automatically that way… But that’s a less than desirable means, for a radio that cost $100. I will look closer at other brands for my next purchase?
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An Okay beginning; but, needs work
3
Posted by: Barefootray from Houma, LA on 07/17/2012For the blind customer looking for an accessible table top HD radio, this unit is worth what you'll pay for it. When you first plug it in, the unit is in accessible mode; which means, that speech output is turned on. The clock and alarms can be set by the blind customer with no trouble at all. The User guide, (which comes on a regular audio CD), is included with this unit to aid in setting up and operation. Nice as this unit is, (and as good a beginning as it is) it's still only a beginning product. There are two main modes of operation on this unit. One is the accessibility mode. The other is called the IRT (international radio table top) mode. In accessibility mode, the blind customer does not have access to all the menu functions of the radio. For example, a sighted person can, while the radio is in IRT mode, set the duration for the snooze alarm, change the tuning frequency spacing, set book marks for HD tagging, set the artist experience and so forth. In IRT mode, speech is turned off and thus, the blind customer has no access to these functions. The setting of the clock is done by pressing and holding in the display button until the unit says "set time". The alarms are set in the same way; by holding down the button corresponding to the alarm you wish to set. On the positive side, (and there are many things to say in this regard.), the radio's FM sensitivity is crazy high. This is true even if you use the regular dipole antenna which comes with the radio. The speakers have a very nice pleasant sound to them; most likely due to the rear porting used in their design. Anyone contending that there is no difference between HD FM and analog FM truly does need to use this radio as a prover of the fallacy of that statement; for you see, there is a huge difference between analog FM and HD FM. The radio works very nicely too when connected directly to a home theater system via the 3.5MM headphone jack on the front of the unit just at the left bottom corner of the display.
All in all, though this radio does need to be improved in so far as accessibility to features, it is a very nice radio, and, would serve well even if a prospective customer is contemplating purchasing it in a market where no HD stations are present. This is so because, even in analog FM playback, it serves very well and sounds quite pleasant.
With regard to the accessibility improvements I would love to see are the following.
1. Use Text to speech rather than recorded voices for speech output.
2. Give blind customers access to all the menu functions so that there would be only one mode for everyone rather than two.
3. the ability to control speech by either changing the degree of verbosity or else turning it off or on completely.
4. When the speech does come on to inform the user of something, the sound of the radio should not cut out completely; rather, the sound should duck under by perhaps 20DBSPL or so.
With respect to the alarms, the actual alarm sound is piercing and would just about awaken the dead; however, if you choose to have the alarm waken you via the radio, the volume of the radio always comes on at the default level. this, I think, should not be so. The radio's volume when the alarm sounds needs to be at the level set by the user or else full up for greater effect as an alarm. Also, the AM is much louder than the FM. That's not called for.
Barring all the above, this is still a nice radio; and, it would do well for anyone seriously contemplating buying themselves a good HD radio.
13 out of 14 found this review helpful.
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Nice, and first of its kind
4
Posted by: NickDangerThirdEye from Midwest on 05/30/2012This is the first radio designed to the standards of the International Association of Audio Information services, using the IAAIS Star Project guidelines. It has a nice little color screen which starts out high-contrast black and yellow. You can change it to how you like it, but if you have low vision, it comes out of the box ready for you. (The screen can show album covers if your local stations start using that protocol.) It talks! Press the volume, and it will say "LOWER" quickly, but you'll keep hearing the audio so you can adjust it. Useful for folks with perfect vision, when in the dark, or reaching over onto the nightstand where you can't see the front. HD FM reception is quite good using cheapie wire antenna. Sound is pretty good for a table radio, but not spectacular. However, it's as good as you'd expect for this price. Headphone jack right on the front, so it's easy to find. All in all, a very nice little HD table radio, with inputs for your iPod or other source, at a decent price.
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