I received this clock radio for Xmas. Within days, it was skipping like crazy when playing the higher tracks of CDs. Later, it was skipping no matter where it was playing on the CD. I couldn't believe that RCA would put out such a cruddy piece of electronics. Come to think of it, we have a couple of inexpensive RCA boomboxes around our house, and they're all pretty awful too--they have major tracking problems. The moral of the story: don't buy RCA's CD players.