cd and cassette clock radios

I've had this clock for about 9 months. I got it because it had CD, nap, & headphone capablilites. The features are great, but the quality of the unit is not very good. I found:

1. Controls confusing to use (& remember at 6 am!)

2. It made a humming sound on FM stations at low volume when using headphones.

3. CD player made clicking sounds when playing. At low volumes this is really distracting.

4. It began making random clicking sounds at all hours of day and night about a month ago. Bad wiring?

5. The "automatic" time feature is misleading because it only works if there are batteries in the unit. They install these at the factory, set the time, & ship it out. It uses the batteries to keep the time until you buy it. If you unplug the unit and remove the batteries, it has no idea what time it is when you turn the unit back on. You have to manually re-set the time.

6. Today it fell off my 12" high nightstand (cat) & the LCD display packet broke. So, now I can't tell what time it is.

I'm not buying another one.

When setting it up no hassle, just plug in and set the time zone underneth. Has full back up of the time. There's evin a place for headphones or better sounding speakers. Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had to return it for a refund, the 2-3 CDs I most wanted to play all in the morning caused such bad clicking, there's just no way I could put up with that. Here's what someone wrote about another similar product, and it's exactly the problem I had:

Clack-clack-clack! That's the sound you'll hear too often when you put a CD in this player. The CD itself seems to sit on the turntable fine, but the part of the lid that rests on the CD is loose and often misaligns. So when you lower the lid and spin up the CD, it clatters.