Is it Sleepmate or Sleep Mate or Soundscreen or Sound Screen? Name confusion is the only problem we found with this machine. This is the white noise machine that started it all, and with its ingenious engineering, it is still the leader.  Now 50 years old, the Marpac SleepMate is still the benchmark in the white noise world.

There have been many upgrades, with the last one coming about a year ago which added the “A” to the model number and a slight change in dimensions and a “whiter” color.  Marpac places either a Sleep Mate label or a Soundscreen label on the unit depending on the resellers order.  These units are also used in doctor’s offices to keep you from hearing what disease the person  who is in with your doctor has as you wait in the waiting room.  For this reason the Soundscreen label was introduced.  After all, who wants a machine in their waiting room that says Sleep Mate? Read more…

We are blown away by the quality the Marpac Marsona TSC-330 has exhibited. Our ‘330′ has now been running 24/7 for over 17,500 hours! That’s 2+ years! If you decide to run it 8 hours a night, you will have now had 6 years of care free operation.

This is an analog sound machine which doesn’t have a loop as do many other digital sound machine on the market today.  The “loop”  which can be described as a repeating “tick” sound every 3-5 seconds, can often keep people awake at night.   The loop free quality of white noise of the Marsona TSC-330 is very impressive. Read more…

The new Sound Oasis S-850 travel alarm clock/sound machine looks modern and up to date. It feels very solid. There are very few buttons on a machine that has 19 sounds, yes we said 19 sounds! It has a rotary volume dial for that “there’s no light to find the buttons” moment. The clock face lights up with a nice blue color when the snooze button is pushed and stays lit for about 4 seconds on battery power. It has a nice “home” and “away” feature that keeps you from having to change the time and alarm time if you happen to travel to the same time zone often. It also shows the home time, if you selected away, in smaller font on the face. A nice feature if you’re plan on calling home and can’t remember what time it is there. Read more…

The Marsona DS-600A has been around a long time.  It is made in the USA by Marpac Co.  Weighing in at about 2 pounds this unit feels well build.  The operation is straight forward.  There are sound selector switches on the front.  There is a one push button to allow this sound machine to turn itself off in 60 minutes.  Don’t push the button and this sound machine will run forever. Read more…

Take our advice; when you buy a sound machine, as a gift, or for yourself, spend the few extra dollars! It makes a difference. The Dex 22-01 is inexpensive, but mostly it’s cheap! It looks like a design from 1977. The buttons have a mushy feel to them and there is no white noise selection. It has summer night, rain, brook, ocean, womb and wind. It has a feature to add sounds to the aforementioned. You can add a seagull, bird, buoy or thunder. Read more…