Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I don't write reviews often but this deserves one. If you want the best very high quality well designed doorbell forget the numerous cheap electronic doorbells with 52 "songs", they ALL sound VERY cheap and tacky. I'm gonna save you the wasted time of getting one of those and having to return it. This one has very high quality sound with no compromises. Can be very soft to very loud. Has 8 included rings (mostly useful, several different ding-dongs, great Westminster chimes, piano riff, etc, hear 'em at yourhome.honeywell.com/S9) and you can actually download any mp3 sound or music file at all (lots of free mp3 sounds avail on web like big dog barking, wind chimes, music, anything at all) and it will play up to 15 seconds of it as an additional ring choice. When button is pushed, button itself lights to confirm press, and the doorbell box outer color ring flashes in any color of several choices. It can also flash 2 small low power white strobes on the top. You can optionally turn off the color ring flashing and/or the strobes if you want to. The lights continue to flash for a few seconds in case you have that "Did I just hear the doorbell?" visual confirmation or when there's loud music or TV on. If you attach more than one button like I did (you can up to have 6 or use add'l proprietary sensors or such but I don't), you can have each button be either the same or different ring tone and/or flashing ring color. I have the front door on a plain old ding-dong ring with blue flashing and my side door with different ring with green flashing. You could even use another extra button(s) as a call button for a bedridden person's caretaker alert in addition to it being your doorbell with different colors and ring tones for each button. You can even program a 2nd secret ring tone from the any button(s) triggered by 3 quick pushes (like for urgent or "It's me" or whatever). Very cool. Range on this top line model is very good. They say 450'. I have the main doorbell button mounted on the outside of a solid wrought iron gate post outside in front and it has to transmit through the solid iron, through front glass and metal door, and through the main door and it reliably triggers the doorbell every time anywhere I put the box inside my 2700 sq ft 2 story house with no glitches. I got the battery one for easy portability (5 years on 4 C cells) but they also make this as a wall plugin model I believe. If you don't want the mp3 download ability, there's a cheaper one that does all this except mp3 (but it specified less range, may or may not be a factor for you). Hope this helps you stop wasting time looking for the best doorbell! Look no further.