Does the job, but why no variable speed?!
My girlfriend and I moved into a great new apartment recently. The only downside is a loud neighbor, a night owl who crashes around in her apartment at midnight, leaves for work at 1am, comes home at 4am, then takes the garbage out.<br /><br />The noise machine creates a soothing blanket of whooshing air that covers up our neighbour. However, why oh why doesn't Marpac make it with a dial to adjust the speed of the fan? Honestly, it is just a little too loud - we'd love to be able to dial it down a bit. If we wanted something this loud that we could just leave the bathroom extractor fan on all night.<br /><br />Marpac does make a more expensive model with two speed settings, but why not just make one model with several settings (like every desk fan on the market, for instance). The people who buy this product are most likely sensitive to noise already, so why not give them the ability to adjust the noise generator to their own specifications?<br /><br />I guess Marpac are the only people out there making these things, so they have no competition and thus no reason the improve the product. One model, with multi-speed setting (more than just two!), would seem to be an obvious next-step for them.<br /><br />Still, if noise is a problem where you live, this will do the trick.
Rating: 4 stars