Dohm Classic (Black) The Original White Noise Machine, Soothing Natural Sound from a Real Fan, Noise Cancelling for Office Privacy, Travel & Meditation, Sleep Therapy for Adults & Baby

I have always been a light sleeper, and am easily woken up by relatively quiet sounds like the air conditioner turning on/off or floor boards creaking etc - to say nothing about outside noise from passing cars or neighbors mowing their lawn at 6 a.m. on a Saturday morning... I tried drowning out the background noises with a "Nature Sounds" CD, but couldn't find any that I liked. So eventually I started sleeping with the ceiling fan on high - which definitely muted the background noise, but also makes the bedroom feel colder and really dried my eyes and skin out. Then I started babysitting for a family with a new infant, and they introduced me to the Marpac SleepMate in their nursery. If you haven't heard a white noise machine before, I'm not quite sure how to describe the sound... Maybe imagine a quiet vacuum cleaner? Or maybe a cross between a "hiss" and "whoosh"? Anyway, it has a very soothing womb-like sound that helps their son fall asleep and prevents him from hearing his parents move around the house after he's in bed. Needless to say, I fell in love! I went home and immediately bought a SleepMate for myself. The unit is small and neutral color, and definitely doesn't look out of place in an "adult" bedroom. You can adjust the tone/texture of the sound by twisting various parts of the unit, and I was easily able to find a setting that my boyfriend and I both liked. The SleepMate was worth every penny because it has drastically improved my overall quality of life. I actually feel rested when I wake up every morning, because I am usually able to sleep through the entire night uninterrupted. I don't notice background house noises any more or get woken up my roommate's TV - and it even covers up pet noise! (My cat had developed a nasty habit of lurking right outside my bedroom door and meowing insistently at around 4:30 a.m. - but he's given up, having realized that his yowling no longer produces the desired effect because I can now sleep soundly through all of his complaining.) I have to admit, I've become so addicted to the white noise that I even bring my SleepMate with me when I travel. In fact, I've raved so much about this product that my parents and sister all bought SleepMates, and my boyfriend got me a 2nd unit for our guest bedroom this Christmas. One quick tip - I've noticed that on certain hard surfaces, the SleepMate produces a secondary low-pitched reverberation - but this disappears if you simply place a soft cushion underneath the unit. ** NOTE - I bought my 1st MarPac SleepMate in November 2008, and it's still going strong. I recently moved from a relatively quiet subdivision to an apartment in the city that has a LOT more traffic noise - I had to turn my SleepMate to the louder (II) setting, but it still manages to drown out mostly everything. Every now and then a particularly high-pitched ambulance siren or a really loud, thumping bass gets through, but overall the SleepMate is still letting me sleep soundly!

We moved from the east coast to the west coast about 14 years ago. One of the biggest differences (for the worse IMHO) is that the west coast has housing developments where the houses are almost on top of each other. There is literally 6 to 10 feet between your house and your neighbor's house. The back yards contain a sliver of land before it meets your backyard neighbor's house. In addition to this close proximity causing other problems, one of the problems is that noises generated by neighbors (some of them not so respectful) are exacerbated. You name it: dogs barking all dang night, mowing the lawn and using other loud equipment for yard work (like a blower, string trimmer, etc.), loud music, loud talking, etc. There are also other noises not caused by neighbors such as planes, trains and (to me) the horrible sound of morning doves at the crack of dawn. The most annoying and frustrating noise emission we've had to deal with are dogs barking, incessantly and/or during "normal" sleep hours...incredibly rude and this can literally drive one insane!! Our neighbor's (at the time they were renters) would leave their dog outside virtually all night, maybe taking it in the house at 3:00am sometimes, only to let the blasted thing out again at 6:00am (including weekends!). Our bedroom, which was on the first floor, would literally be a few feet from the neighbor's side yard and back yard because the houses are so close together. Many talks with the neighbors and their landlord failed. We tried the police...they said we needed to file something in court. We looked into court options and, unfortunately, the criteria necessary to file the appropriate action was not met, so we couldn't do anything there either. Finally, we discoverd the Marpac Sound Conditioners (a prior name). They are unbelievable. Lifesavers, and savers of our sanity. We have had three of them for almost TEN years...one for each of our children and one for ourselves. The sound is incredibly soothing. There are no "repeating cycles" that you can oftentimes here with digital white noise and sound machines because the unit is generating the noise like a fan, but without the cold air. I have many digital sounds too (beach waves, rain, white noise, etc.), which are good for me at times, but I still feel the Marpac units are clearly the best for me for sleep. Additionally, if your mind/ears are like mine, and you HEAR a digital cycle start over (like rain that has been recorded, plays for 30 seconds and then starts over), it can interrupt the process of going to sleep because you noticed the loop starting over. There are no loops with the Marpac. There are two settings, high and low. The low has worked for my wife and I and one of the children this entire time. The older child likes hers on high. There are holes on the top and slits on the side. The top can turn to open or close some of the holes and the side has a sleeve that can be rotated to open or close the slits. Manipulating the slits or the holes adjusts not only the volume of the unit, but also the tonality of the sound. So, there are quite a few options for you as far as volume and tonality. Incidentally, these items are small enough for travel and they have a long cord (on purpose) for more placement options. With this on, ALL of the outside noises are gone, and we can sleep in peace. The external noises melt away. An additional HUGE bonus for me was something I discovered after I started using the Marpac. I purchased the Marpac to drown out EXTERNAL noises. I didn't even think about the INTERNAL noises in my head!! I'm talking about laying in bed and thinking too much, which can also cause sleep loss and insomnia. Sometimes my mind can race. You know, where you are just laying there, thinking about things...what I forgot to do today, what I need to do tomorrow, a work issue, etc. The sound from this unit helps me to NOT think about things so I can fall asleep, and stay asleep. It is one sound (the type you choose using the sleeve and the top) that simply continues without changing, so it is not distracting and you become immersed in its calm soothing sound. I can't recommend these enough, not only for downing out external sounds, but to also help one NOT to think as much when trying to sleep.

What a great white noise maker this is! This came into my life when my son was born in 2018. The need for background noise in a big, creaky, 120-year-old house is no joke. Especially when you add a brand new person who barely knows how to do anything but breathe and sleep. This Dohm Classic is about the size of a spindle of CDs (that's 1 iPhone wide, and 2/3 of an iPhone tall for all you whippersnappers). Not tiny, but the fact that the noise you're hearing is actually being made by a spinning fan (not a speaker) means it needs to have some real estate inside for parts. There are no timers or automatic functions, just ON/OFF, and the ability to change the noise characteristics by rotating the body in two places to change how the rushing air vibrations leave the device. It's loud enough that it can sit on a centrally-located table in our upstairs hallway and be heard solidly in both bedrooms, each approximately 10 feet away. My review title states that we've purchased two of these in seven years. I'm an engineer, so it's not unheard of for me to take things apart when they stop functioning. After about four years of nightly use (11+ hours per night) the first unit started making some extra grinding, groaning noises that my engineer brain instantly pegged as an unhappy motor. I removed the four screws on the bottom and did my best to clean the interior and add a couple drops of small motor oil to the parts that move. Put back together, the thing operated fine. Over the next two years, I'd regularly open it up and repeat the process every few months. You can hear the noise characteristics change over time, so (assuming you're comfortable doing so) you'll know when it's time for a cleaning. At the end of year six, it was not happy at all. Screaming and screeching, and refusing to spin. Nothing a complete disassembly and cleaning of the entire motor couldn't fix! Squeaked another three months out of it before retiring it to our vacation home and purchasing a brand new one for home. I was HAPPY to spend another $40 for something that performed so well for so many years! Pro Tip: Plug this into a smart outlet so you can automate a schedule and even add timer functionality if you want!

A must have for a baby/toddler's room. An absolute must have for shift workers. I used to have it bad, for ten years I often worked nights and lived in hotels. Maids vacuuming in the next room, doors slamming shut, kids running and yelling in the hall. Without the Marpac Sleepmate II, now the Marpac Dohm-DS Dual Speed Sound Conditioner my sleep was constantly being disturbed. I would toss and turn in bed for nine plus hours and would still feel unrested. With the sound conditioner I would sleep for 6.5 to 7.0 hours and wake up before my alarm went off feeling like a million bucks. It hides noises that would wake you, but it also hides the lesser noises that would just disturb your sleep by barely waking you (small wakes that you won't remember in the morning) or just keeping you from going into deep recuperative sleep. I fall asleep faster and sleep better with it. My daughter as a baby, toddler, and now a five year old sleeps like a dream with it. I would turn it on when she was a baby and that plus one or two short lullabies and she was out for a long nap or a long night. I believe, that when she would wake prematurely, as naturally happens, the soothing sound or perceived quietness from the sound conditioner, ensured her brain that everything was as it should be, so she would not get curious or upset, and if her mind/body needed more sleep she would fall right back into it. She wouldn't wake until she was thoroughly rested. Sometimes I would have to stir her from three plus hour afternoon naps instead of letting her wake on her own. Even if she was just a naturally perfect sleeper and it wasn't so much the sound conditioner, It did allow adults to not have to tip toe around the house while the baby/toddler is sleeping. That right there, makes it worth it. I lived in a small apartment and I would do dishes, watch TV, flush the toilette right outside her room, and even vacuum while she slept. I'd make the noise and peek inside her room and she wouldn't even stir. My girlfriend would sleep with a table top fan on her nightstand blasting air across her face all night because she needed it to sleep. Of course after years of that she started waking up with bloody noses. I figured she needed the white noise of the fan blades more than the sinus drying gale force wind. I bought her a sound conditioner and convinced her to run the ceiling fan at a moderate speed. It worked, she loves it. Quality: I have had mine for four and a half years (as of April 2014) and I can guarantee that I have abused mine more than just about anybody out there. I used mine when I was at home and I tossed it in a suitcase to travel an average of 18 days every month. In and out of home, suitcases, and hotels. I would also fly with it in my checked baggage several times a year. It still works and looks great. The only thing I can fault it on is that the still functioning fine switch doesn't have the same solid click/feel that it had when new when you switch it back to center. Up or down to switch it to low or high and I still get the reassuring feel/sound from the switch. A solid accomplishment for the years of abuse I've given it. Yours will likely sit on a night stand and last forever. Buy it!=)

This actually works for me. I am a light sleeper & in the last year, every little thing wakes me up so I have not had a good night sleep. I was desperate to find SOMETHING other than a sleeping pill so I tried this….& it actually works! I've been using it for a couple weeks now & have had a big improvement - I feel more rested & alert during the day. I do not wake up as often - maybe once or twice & I fall back asleep quickly. A fan going in the bedroom always helped me sleep better except for the blowing, getting too cool & drying the sinuses. This DOHM solves those problems. You can adjust the amount of sound - there is a lot of adjustability. I find it works best for me on the 1 setting & all the ports closed down - so the most quiet. I put it in a corner of the bedroom, far away as possible from the bed. Another benefit I was not even thinking of….when we have guests at our small cabin, you hear when someone gets up in the night, snores, coughs, etc. I put this DOHM in the hall between the bedrooms & turned it to a medium sound level & everyone slept better! It blocks out all those sounds - kind of a simple miracle. I'm buying a second DOHM to leave there. This unit is assembled in the USA & the person who assembles it, signs their name on the bottom tag. So if you are looking at a cheaper version of this, keep that in mind. You are keeping someone employed here in the USA & this is a well built unit! It does not get hot & it's heavy so I assume the inside motor is not a piece of junk.

Works great for sleep, sounds just like a fan. The reason I gave 4 stars is not because of the product, but more due to Amazon. The first machine we received was obviously a return - open box, finger prints. My thought is, I just spent $50 on this thing, the machine should be in mint condition! So, Amazon sent us another, and wouldn’t you know, although it was in a sealed box, the machine was separated at the bottom and had to be clicked into place; plus, this also had fingerprints all over it. Just said forget it and kept the first one we bought. So, buyer beware, maybe consider purchasing straight from the manufacturer if you can. That way, even if a machine has been returned, I’m sure the manufacturer will do a much better job and making sure the machine looks brand new before shipping it back out again.

Needed this white noise machine to cancel out noise while I sleep! You can change the settings on it. You can make it louder or softer, you can change the way the noise comes out very easily. This is loud enough, and also quiet enough for however I want it!

I really like this product. It gives off just enough sound that it blocks most external sounds (including some light snoring). Play with the louvers to find the sweet spot s fast as sound goes. Small size, sits on my night stand next to my phone charger.

This is the best white-noise machine out there. It's the third one we buy; we now all have one in our bedrooms. It's a steady noise; perfect for sleeping, concentrating, cutting out annoying noise coming from outside. Not quite as loud as an air purifier, but louder than a regular fan. Over the years, our kids have inherited our DOHM and the oldest model we have is probably 10 years old now. It still makes a perfectly steady noise; no rattles. We are 3 pp with ADHD in the family and this white-noise maker helps tremendously!!

Perfect for our nursery! Blocks out all external noise and gives a calming and soothing sound to fall asleep to. Quick delivery, worth the money, great product!

J'ai le sommeil léger et l'utilisation du Dohm me permet un sommeil vraiment plus profond. Je pouvais me réveiller à cause du camion d'ordures, le conjoint qui cusine dans la pièce à côté, des amis qui parlent dans le salon. Mais avec le Dohm ça aide à couvrir les bruits et m'aide à m'endormir et à ne pas me réveiller. On a testé des modèles différents avec plusieurs bruits différents mais ça s'entend que c'est électronique et que les bruits sont "faux". Celui ci est vraiment comme une fan mais sans le vent dans la chambre. On en a même 3! Un autre dans la chambre d'amis et un 3e que j'apporte dans TOUS mes déplacements quand je dors ailleurs. Je ne peux plus vivre sans!

I have tried apps on my cell phone and tablet and they were OK. I bought a white noise machine with different sound options, the sounds were so terrible I returned it. I bought this machine. It has a real fan inside and you can adjust the tone 2 ways. There is only an on low, on high or off option. I was skeptical. How I love this machine! The sound is so perfect and soothing not annoying. I use low during the day when I work and high at night for sleeping. I will buy this machine again and again.

Das Gerät ist für Europa nicht geeignet. Sehr hohen Watt Konsum, 110 Volt, Amerikanischer Stecker. Ich habe schon zwei Volt-Converter verbrannt.