Newhouse Hardware CHM2 Door Chime, White

My OEM door chime (now 22 years old) finally gave up the ghost - the sound bar broke off the end and it had become a sad and nearly inaudible "clunk". After some research, I found this chime, which was a perfect drop-in replacement with the class ding-dong sound. Simple installation and work perfectly the first time.

The CHM2 doorbell sound is absolutely beautiful. For some reason, this is an extremely hard to find a trait and a doorbell… Most of them sound absolutely awful. I’m universally considered ton deaf and people complain if I try to sing, but I thought almost every doorbell on the market just sounded terrible and made me wince. The CHM2 is a bar chime doorbell, which means it has xylophone type metal bars on the inside, and they have been carefully tuned by somebody!! Thank you to this person who had some musical training who works in the doorbell factory and helped design this!Now the housing, is another matter altogether. It’s just a big hunk of white rounded plastic, and the plastic housing is actually a lot wider than the doorbell itself. Fortunately, it snapped off, and I got a Saillong doorbell chime cover here on Amazon and the whole thing looks extremely classy. It fits over the CHM2 if you pull the white plastic cover off first. I think the combination looks and sounds as nice as the $300 to $400 doorbells that are being sold on rejuvenation.com!

Works good. Easy to install. My only complaint is there isn’t enough room under the cover to put the little dongle you need for the nest doorbell. So I had to stick it on the outside of the case.

Why did you pick this product vs others?:This doorbell chime sounds great, looks good and is very easy to install. For a very reasonable price, I updated my doorbell in under 15 minutes. I would definitely recommend.Color:White

Looked like the best product for our need.

Replacing my old chime with this one was easy. The chime is old-fashioned in its design but the tune sounds pretty good. I reused my existing push button but had to remove the diode as it would otherwise constantly 'pushing'. I am not sure if the diode has gone bad or not. But removing it solved the problem.I just wish there was a way to control the volume. It's a bit loud for my taste. The cover design is also very poor. It's flimsy, and takes lots of cajoling to replace it after the installation of the base is done. Actually I was done with cajoling and had to force it really hard to attach it in the end. And why in the world do you need FOUR screws to fasten this little device to the wall?

A nice door bell chime for the the price. Replaced my old 65 year old chime.

Good sound good quality