Sony Dream Machine

(Please note: this opinion is about the Sony Dream Machine ICF-C113 which is not the same as the model pictured and described above. There are many variants in the Sony Dream Machine range.) ----------------- I have to confess that I didn't actually need another clock radio when I bought this, but I was won over by the ultra-cool and sexy looks of this model. My last clock radio was the classic 1980's wedge shaped Sony ICF-C220L (a present for my 10th birthday from my grandparents), which had done its job and looked good at the time when set against grey/red diagonal stripe wallpaper and black ash furniture, but somehow the time had ...  Read the complete review

This clock/radio was exactly what I was looking for. I previously had a clock/radio/cassette player, which was rather large and took up alot of space on my bedside table, at the time when I bought this, I thought that it would be really useful, especially being able to play cassettes. Unfortunately it wasn’t as useful as I first thought and took up more space than I originally anticipated. So after putting up with this cumbersome clock for many years, I saw the clock that I really wanted. A compact, stylish silver finish, cube shaped clock/radio, that was definitely going to take up less space on my bedside table. I didn’t buy it straight away, as it ...  Read the complete review

I was bought the Sony Dream Machine (ICF-C1iP) as a gift from my parents to take to university. It can be used as an i-pod docking station for all i-pod varieties plus has a radio and alarm clock function. Its a really compact system so can fit on even a student sized bed side table, plus it looks pretty cool and sleek so I've had a few friends admiring it! The volume it can produce and the sound quality are really good and once you've managed to program in radio stations (which is simple enough when using the manual) both the radio and i-pod player are very simple to use. It even comes with a handy little remote control. The major problem I've had is using the ...  Read the complete review

I bought the dream machine after searching long and hard for a clock radio that would wake me up for 5: 30. The only one that I found that had a volume control and also had the ability to wake me up so easily. For a rather expensive £39.95, you get a loud, grey, box that not only looks stylish but plays stylish music and preset 15 stations as well. Other features of the dream machine include the handy daylight saving button, and the dual alarm function. The dual alarm function means if the first alarm does not wake you up the second will go off every five minutes until you deactivate it. This wakes me up, and I sleep through anything. Another feature ...  Read the complete review

I have the ICF-C273L Dream Machine and it's absolutely ridiculous as an alarm clock/radio. The process of setting the alarms, and the time is so counter-intuitive that it defies belief that any serious corporation could have launched it onto the market! I suspect it's all to do with cost of manufacture - it's obviously cheaper to cut back on buttons and rely on 'intelligence' in the machine to allow functions to be completed. For example my old reliable Philips radio had a button for every function - so to select the alarm type you simply used the 'alarm' buttons - up for radio, down for alarm and in the middle for off (one for each alarm) - simple ...  Read the complete review