Great for nurseries, surprisingly effective, but WAY overpriced...
I'm glad I held off on reviewing this item until we'd had it for a while because when I first received it I almost sent it back. I bought this for my son who has always needed background noise to sleep well. We have just used a fan in the past but his room is the coldest room in the house so I was looking for an alternative to the fan that wouldn't make his room even colder. When you turn it on, it sounds way too quiet to believe it would mask any background noise. And at first, it really doesn't seem to block out any noise. But once it's been on for a while, you honestly don't notice any other noise but the sound of the machine, which itself is quite soothing. It's not that it masks or blocks the noise, it just seems to trick your brain somehow into not noticing the noise, if that makes sense. And the nice thing is we can take it wherever we go unlike the fan. We took it to our summer home to use up in the loft where the kids sleep and it really helped them fall asleep even with all of the grownups downstairs talking. I would love to buy one of these for every room in our house but that's the downside--the price is WAY to expensive to justify purchasing more than one. Especially when fans are just as effective and you can buy those for 8 bucks at Home Depot. Which is really too bad since I could see every Mom in America having one of these in their nurseries if it were more affordable so I'm not sure why the price point has to be so high. I'm still giving it 5 stars though because it's definitely an effective product so if you have money to burn then go ahead and splurge!
Rating: 5 stars