features, great gift. This was a Christmas present for my husband. Hes been using the same alarm clock from college and complaining about it! I got him this because we sometimes can hear our neighbors television and it makes it hard for him to fall asleep. He really likes that he can wake up to any of the sounds. He usually uses the fog horns! The timer feature is nice and its also nice that you can have 2 alarms set and use 2 different sounds for each alarm. There is no radio but he really doesnt miss it. I think the different sounds get used more than the radio on his old alarm clock ever did. I shopped around when I was looking for an alarm clock and for the price and features you cant beat it. Others have some of the soothing sounds but not 20 like this one. It was a great buy and a perfect gift for us! Too bright to sleep Unfortunately, the only time the lighted front goes off is when you pull the plug. Although you can set it to three different brightnesses, even the lowest setting is quite bright, and interfered with my sleep. If that were fixed, Id rate it four stars. Not five because its larger than I expected, and about three times the size of the Brookstone sound machine I currently have. And the instructions stress the batteries are for backup of the settings only, which makes it awkward