too loud for baby
So disappointed. It has a way to adjust the volume but even the lowest doesn't create a soft sound that you could let drift in to the background. I ran it in a room with an Ac unit (which runs at 90 decibels when you are right in front of it) just to see which was louder. You can hear it over the Ac unit when I'm sitting in front of the Ac unit and the sound machine is in the opposite corner. I was looking for something like the Ac unit fan but quieter to make soft white noise for my baby when we don't need the Ac unit to run. Well this is louder then that so it wakes her. The white noise sound sounds like old analogue tv static not soft fan sounds. It's terrible. I even tried putting it on the other side of her door, no still sounds terrible and too load. To top it off you have to use a forward and back button to even try the other sounds, which are at different volume levels so cycling throug them while trying to put a baby to bed is counter productive. Last thing, even if you try the nice soft rain track it's got some lovely rolling thunder to wake you dosing infant. Even the lullabies are too load. Very disappointed  this thing.Returning. Replacing it with a small 10 in fan, which make a nice soft sounds to which my infant has now passed out to after being woken up by and not being able fall asleep with this dbpower machine.<br />Waste my time and money on the one.<br /><br />Update: I have been contacted by the seller/maker. They share that they did a lot of research before making this product. They report that many people wanted a louder machine to fully block out external noise. That's fine and well, but it's also advertised for babies room with special tracks just for baby. So that said, I still stand by my original statement that its too loud for that purpose. Most recommendations say in babies rooms prolonged noises should not exceed 60 decibels. This is over that. After exchanging emails with the company, sighed by Bella (who ever that is within the company , no title or position was listed) I do believe this company wants to make a quality machine and make customers happy. My return was a breeze and money returned with in 24 hours of the item being picked up with no further action needed by me. They also offered me a free item as an apology (and a request to update my negative review) but I didn't take it. I didn't write my review to get free things, just to express how my expense was compare to my expectation based on the item description. They asked me if I will test the next generation which I will.  I'd love to see a version that meets the original claim.(and maybe a few other improvements) It could be a great machine if it's improved. I'll hold out hope for that. I'd really like to have a better version of this. I really wanted to like it.
Rating: 1 stars