Sound + Sleep SE - White Noise Machine for Focus Support - Convenient Sleep Timer - Built-in Headphone Jack - Precision Volume Settings - Speech Privacy - White

I bought my Sound+Sleep SE a bit over five years ago and it's worked great that entire time. However just recently it has developed a glitch where after playing for several hours it'll suddenly emit a fast stuttering noise and then power off. I contacted the company's support department and they immediately responded (within seconds) and their belief is that the memory card has gone bad and they are sending me a replacement memory card first class free of charge. I'm totally blown away by this level of support, especially as the product is no longer under warranty. I wish all businesses operated at such a level. Now as to the machine itself, I love it, which is why I've used it every night for over five years. My favorite settings is the "Meadow" setting with both "Selection" lights lit. I do hit the Display button to turn off all the lights though before I go to bed. But I just love the crickets in that particular setting.

This machine produces sounds that are far more realistic than units of it’s type, less canned, never looping, and utterly effective in providing layered, calming background noise for sleep or study. By comparison these sounds are so FAR supeior that they suspend disbelief! My husband wakes up sometimes to blurt out that it’s raining before drifting back off again, cute? You get 40 (FORTY!) easy to dial choices too! Tip: Take a cellphone screen shot of the menu or tape an index card of your known favorite settings nearby. There is such a broad range of choices I guarantee you will NOT like them ALL, (how could you, it’s variety) but you will have favorites. The machine remembers that you like Rain program 4 and Ocean program 2, so just because you turn to a new sound, your old settings per category will stand till you change them. If I go from 4the program Rain to 3rd program Meadow, then play with Crowds program 1 for awhile, when I go back to Rain again, it’ll be set at the 4th level where I left it! This company really tries to give us EVERYTHING! Like, perhaps Brown, Pink or Whitewash sound isn’t FOR everybody, so you can time it to send the baby to sleep but shut off before your spouse hits the hay. Push a single obvious button to select auto shut-off options after 30, 60, 90, or 120 minutes OR you can let it just play indefinitely till you hit the on/off power key! The machine is lightweight for TRAVEL but still quality made and attractive and I like mine right next to my pillow! (Needs an outlet) I’ve tried several products (4) to reach this conclusion and I WON’T name them, they’re fine, but compared to THIS? They’re out of their league! If you buy a $19.99 unit you’ll GET a fraction of the AWESOME possibilities offered by THIS handsome beauty. This unit even has an ADAPTIVE option in which with one obvious button click activates a sound level sensor and your effects programs will swell or taper off in sync with surrounding ambient noise, so if a discussion gets ‘heated’ you won’t wake the baby, and the ‘nature’ builds and tapers back to normal as you do, Heck, you could even vacuum, and all baby hears is the wind blowing in the trees, (strong as it needs to to mute you out). Genius! It doesn’t have EVERY great sound effect under the sun, like windchimes and blizzards, distant droning lawn mowers, popcorn popping, cats purring... ah well. But I was SHOCKED by what it DOES include! A City Cafe 😃(omg) Passing Traffic 🚙, Fireplace Crackling🔥 and each VERSION of a sound type adds more layers! The first setting of Ocean is just waves smashing the breakwall, setting two adds seagulls & wind, setting three adds seagulls, wind, foghorns, passing boats and I forget all else, but each program lets you build on it. I enjoy falling rain, but I PREFER a cracking loud thunder storm and this machine provides these choices! LLove-Love Love-Love Love it! ♥️💗💕❤️

After a few nights of use, so far this is vastly superior to my old Sharper Image white noise machine that I've had for probably 20+ years. The high-quality speaker adds a lot more low-frequency to the sounds (I have been using brown noise), which enables it to mask a lot more ambient sounds that the older machine just couldn't. So far, it's allowing me to sleep without using earplugs. I probably wouldn't travel with it - it's just too big - but I can keep using earplugs when I'm in a hotel. It does take up a bit more real estate on my nightstand, but I compensated for this by upgrading to a newer and much smaller alarm clock. Time will tell about durability, longevity, etc., but for now, it seems like money well spent.

I purchased this sound machine about a month ago, and within two weeks the sound machine would just shut off after 15 minutes of operation. It was dead. It would not turn back on. I called the manufacturer, and they were very nice and replaced the unit within 1 week. I also received a return label to send the original unit. I received the new, and worked well....... for about a week. This time the shut down of the unit was different. The unit would shut down after 15 minutes, but I was able to reset the unit by unplugging the power source. This did not solve the main issue though of the constant shut down. I though the issue may have been the voltage fluctuation at the receptacle. The readout on my UPS battery backup showed a power fluctuation between 118 to 121 volts. So in order to correct this, I purchased an electronic voltage regulator to automatically adjust and maintain the voltage at 120 volts. After setting up this new auto voltage regulator, I pugged the sound machine into the auto voltage regulator, and after 15 minutes, the unit still would shut down. I then assumed that the line voltage signal was "Dirty", with noise. So I purchase a electronic line conditioner for a high fi system to clean the line signal. After installing the auto voltage regulator and the line conditioner filter in series, the sound machine still shuts down after 15 minutes. I suspect that there must be a manufacturers defect in the circuitry, since I experienced the same issues with the two units, with a clean and constant 120 volt power supply. I've given up on exchanging the sound machine with another replacement and have decided to take the loss, and just purchase a different manufacturer. This was a costly lesson. I do not recommend the purchase of this sound machine.

The Adaptive Sound technology is amazing if you have a noisy household. I could see some not liking the Adaptive Sound technology if they are very sensitive to changes in sound. I wasn't as sure about this feature when I first tried it, but I adapted to it in a few minutes and my brain then tuned out the sound changes. What I really needed this for was for when the household is noisy from 9pm to 12am and then noisy again 5am to 8am. It works incredibly well for objects like dishes and cutlery clanking around, loud conversations, laughter, movies/TV, and loud noises in general. If it's noisy and you're desperate for sleep, it's worth it. The Adaptive Sound technology will adjust with the noise to match that noise level. It takes a minute to adjust to it when you first turn it on because of the sudden increases in sound, but then you tune it out and can fall back asleep. If you really try to focus on indoor noises, you can sort of hear a bit of the noise being canceled, but I'd say like 95% of the noise is blocked depending on the sound. It will not really work for loud noises that are in the room with you, like someone talking or a pet barking. Not to say that it doesn't work, it works really well, but the sound level changes are loud and hurt your ears. If someone walks in the room to talk to you, the sound of rain will race to catch up to their voice level at max volume. It's not a negative since that's a feature and can be easily avoided. It would work well for tuning out something more like a mini fridge humming, air purifier, etc. It would stay in a good decibel range for those. It also worked really well on the 4th of July. It completely blocked out the noise of the fireworks.

I've worked nights for the better part of the last two decades. I've had a version of this on my wish list for some time. My bedroom is about 25 yards from a country backroad near a stop sign, so I get all the loud vehicle noise from custom mufflers waking me up constantly. I purchased this product a month or two ago and set it on brown noise mode 2 (two lights selected) on a pretty high volume on my night stand. I no longer wake up to vehicle traffic. I sleep through the day and wake up refreshed. The brown noise mode 2 is great and masks so much outside and inside noise like dogs moving around and vehicles and motorcycles blasting by. I got home 40 minutes ago and my significant other and three dogs in the bedroom have yet to realize that I am home. My only gripe is that probably 10% of the time, the noise maker shuts off after about 30 minutes. These seems to be a common issue with this product, but it turning off doesn't wake me up, the next road noise does, so I reach over and turn it back on. I don't use the timer, ever, so I don't know why it does this. I don't really care for any of the other sounds available, but there is a great variety. The brown noise mode 2 pumps out a deep enough sound that overrides most exterior noise and enhances my quality of sleep.

I purchased this item after comparing it with the LectroFan Evo and the Yogasleep Dohm, and ultimately settled on the Sound+Sleep SE. All of them are good, but this one is the most complete, especially if you appreciate rain and nature sounds. It gets quite loud, and the sound quality is what I would describe as HD compared to the others. The LectroFan Evo is more specialized in white noise and fan sounds. Its sound isn't as 'HD' but has a slightly warmer tone. The Yogasleep Dohm is for those who like simplicity and the convenience of pressing a single button. Its sound is relaxing, although it bothered me that I could hear a strange, high-pitched sound coming from somewhere mechanical, not the fan itself. This was definitely the winner for me due to its HD sounds, good aesthetics, no noticeable looping, and versatility of ambient sounds, plus white, brown, and pink noise, and fan sounds. The only downsides are the price and limited portability.

I really like the machine. I love the rain noise and like that I can even hook it up to my Bose speaker to get better quality sounds, if I want. Unfortunately, I've been using it for about 2.5 months and now I can't use roughly 6 or 7 of the sounds. The speaker sounds like a kazoo and the low-pitched sounds like the heart beat or certain thunder noises are scratchy and staticy. I haven't moved the machine, dropped it, bumped it, etc. It's been in the same place so there's no reason for this to have occurred and I've seen this in other reviews. The other day, I also lost the layers of sound. Rain would no longer turn into thunder/lightening. Meditation was only a drone, the sitar and other instruments were gone. I followed instructions and hard reset it and those came back, but it's odd that they got lost in the first place. I really like the machine and it does drown out noises and help me sleep, but I'm concerned that I can't use a large portion of the sounds now and am further worried that it will continue to deteriorate. I would like to see if a replacement machine is a possibility. It says there is a 1 year warranty in the box. I'll be checking to see if I can pursue that.