Need it. Also use the timer. It's a bad habit, but I need it. I just put a all night news station and listen for a while till I'm out. The timer is set for 2:00 and only once in a while I hear it click off but by then I'm too tired to turn it on. Pisses the wife off, but after 12 years, she's come around. 2 bedrooms doesn't hurt either.