"Skookum" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> I wish I did. I get up at 4:30 a.m. every morning, 2 hours before the
> rest of the household. I make a pot on my Cuisinart and stand guard as
> it sputters the last water into the filter, flicking the machine off
> seconds ahead of the shrill beep sequence. My microwave does this too.
> Ah, for the 50s!
>

They must have "improved" the beeper -- I have a similar module that is a
couple of years old and it beeps so softly that you can be standing about 5
feet away and not hear it :-)

They probably got a lot of complaints saying the beep wasn't loud enough!

Ellen