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Customer Reviews
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What Roommate?
This little device works great! It's not really that loud, but when my boyfriend and I fall asleep with it on, we sleep soundly all night and never hear our roommate anymore. He has a different schedule than us and our room is at the top of the steps and with our wood floors he was always waking us up after midnight (sometimes with guests). I can't tell you how much I love this thing! I highly recommend this to anyone with a roommate!
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an excellent purchase
provides the needed white noise to help me sleep with my inner ear problems...only thing I dislike is the toggle switch to turn on and off. Most of the time I can't just turn the unit off...the switch moves right up or down to the next speed on. It's a minor thing but annoying. Otherwise, a good value for the money. I'm glad I bought it.
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Fan abusers rejoice
I have always needed some sort of noise to sleep due to a fairly mild case of tinnitus, so for the last several years I've had a fan running during the night. Living in Ohio, this didn't really make sense for over half of the year when it is 20 degrees outside. This little machine makes a very nice type of white noise (which is adjustable in tone and volume) and doesn't sap near the power as a fan, nor does it unnecessarily cool the room down just for the sake of noise. I've only used it for a few nights so far, but have gotten good sleep and hardly noticed the switch from the fan to this. It seems to be very well built and doesn't take up much space. The only thing I would like to see would be a battery option so it would run through the occasional power outage or during trips. Otherwise a very great product!
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The perfect white noise machine
This sound screen is exactly what I was looking for. I have trouble sleeping at night and in order to block out those night sounds I have been using a Honeywell HEPA filter on high all night long for the last 3-4 years. The problem is the HEPA filter is moving a lot of air and draws roughly 250 Watts of electricity, which is a lot to be running 12+ hours a day, ever day of the year. Also its not very feasible for me to take it with me traveling, which makes it hard to sleep on the road. Electronic white noise equivilents all sound very electronic to me and I can usually hear the point of repetition, which bothers me and keeps me awake.
So I asked for and received the Marpac 980A for christmas - it is the perfect solution. It draws a lot less electricity, which was something I was looking for. It creates the same sort of sound the air filter or a fan creates - the dial allows you to adjust how loud it is and the type of noise - one way is a mostly rushing air noise, the other is more of a pleasant mechanical hum. It also has two settings on the on/off switch, low and high.
The sound screen is a lot softer volume wise than something like my air filter, when I first turned it on my husband remarked 'Is that as loud as it gets?', however, while my air filter sits on the other side of the room, far away, I put the marpac next to me on my nightstand and it actually seems about the same volume at that proximity. It's small size (about 4.5" diameter) means I can take it with me when travelling. I also liked that it has foam padding on the bottom so it will not scratch nice furniture it is set on.
It does let off a very very slight airflow out the holes, if I put my hand right over them I can feel it, but not enough to reach my face sleeping next to it and bother me.
I wanted to note that the first picture in this listing is NOT of the 980A, it must be a slightly older model, the switch is different, the second picture is correct.
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Perfect
This is the perfect solution if you like a little "white" noise as a background noise for sleeping. My husband and I have a fan on in the summer and fall but it was too cold for winter use. We had become used to the noise which made it easier to sleep. I purchased this item for him for Christmas this year and we both LOVE it. I would highly recommend it. It's small and lightweight. We are using the lowest setting, but it's nice to know we could turn it up higher if necessary. A perfect solution to a fan!!
