Sound+Sleep High Fidelity Sleep Sound Machine with 30 Guaranteed Non-Looping Nature Sounds, and Sleep Timer

The only thing that worries me about this machine is that some reviews say it can stop working suddenly after a few months. This machine has been so great, I would hate to have to be without it while a new one was shipped. Hopefully, mine is OK and will work for a very long time.We have been married for 40 years. My husband snored on and off for most of the time. But it was never a real problem and a nudge would get him to turn over and the snoring would stop. However, over the past year, his snoring has gotten very loud and is very constant. He snores every night and a lot of the time it is 'buzz saw' in loudness. Turning and changing position does not do anything to help. He tried the nose strips, but that did no good.It was a difficult situation as although he was the one snoring, it really was my problem as I was the one who could not sleep with the noise. I researched various snoring solutions such as mouth pieces and other devices that might help snoring. But even though he appreciated that I could not sleep, he is not the type to be gung ho about finding a solution or purchasing and trying some of these devices. His basic 'answer' to the problem was that some day his snoring would stop. After a year, I really doubted that was going to happen. I don't think he appreciated how totally his snoring kept me awake with so many totally sleepless nights! He was the snorer, but it became my job to find a way to deal with it.It came to the point that we had to sleep in separate bedrooms most of the time. Our kids are grown, so we did have a couple of empty bedrooms to use. Although I could get a good night's sleep, a separate room was not a comfortable solution overall. Also we travel a lot and have to use the same bed when guests come to our house. So I had to find a way to deal with his snoring when traveling and at home.I researched the white noise and sound machines. This one got such high ratings I figured it was the one to try. From what I had read, I thought the actual 'white noise' would be the best. But I am so glad I bought this one that had many sounds.The machine has done it's job almost from the first night we used it. There was one big adjustment however. The first night I put the machine on my nightstand. It helped somewhat, but since the snorer was on the other side of me, I could still hear him quite a bit. I read about these noise machines and it said to work best, the machine should be between you and the noise. Thankfully this machine is not very large. So I actually placed it on the mattress up against the headboard between my husband and myself. Now the sound is truly between me and the source of the noise. I placed it so the controls are at the top of the machine and I can easily push the buttons to adjust the level of sound. It only takes up a little more than 4 inches of space and on a king size bed, that does not bother us.In testing out the various sounds, I actually found the basic white noise to be rather irritating. I like the rainfall sound the best. I put the richness setting at level one as it adds a little diversity and a rumble of thunder once in a while. I have awakened at night several times to think it was actually raining before I realized it was the machine.I play the machine all night long. I think your mind adjusts better to listening to the sound when it is on all the time. I start out at a minimum level. But when the 'buzz saw' starts, I crank up the sound until it drowns out the snoring. It does take a little adjustment to get used to the rain sound constantly and especially when I have to make it very loud. But the adjustment has been quick and relatively easy and allows me to get a good night's sleep. Part of the problem with the snoring was that it could be extremely loud one minute and moderate the next. The constant change in noise levels really had me edgy and nervous as when the snoring was quiet, I kept mentally waiting for it to get loud again. My nerves were always on edge wondering what level of snoring loudness would be next. With the constant level of the rain fall noise, it helps me to not worry about the level of snoring noise. If the snoring gets loud enough to wake me, I now just amp the rainfall level up a few notches (sometimes more notches than than 'a few') and I can go back to sleep.I read some of the reviews that said the machine was not loud enough. I can't help but agree with other posters that those machines must have a defect of some sort. When I put my machine on the loudest level, it is extremely loud. Even with my buzz saw, I never need to crank it up to the loudest level. I am happy that this machine is small as we will need to take it with us when we travel.I do hope my sleep machine lasts a long time. But whenever it does stop working, I will be getting a new one. It really has been a wonderful device to help with my noise problem. I don't think I really thought it would work as well as it has and solved our situation so easily.

I received my EcoTones Duet in the mail yesterday, and I was unbelievably excited to try it out in light of the overwhelmingly positive reviews it received here. I tried it out last night--and this thing seriously came through for me in a time of pretty desperate need. I live in a great vintage apartment on the first floor, which means that I have great but very noisy and squeaky hardwood floors...and so does my upstairs neighbor. He moved in about a month ago and has loves to a) stomp around louder than I've ever heard anyone stomp (both barefoot AND in his hard-soled shoes), b) have loud sex with a loud (and usually high-heeled and stomping) female visitor, and c) talk loudly on speakerphone for hours at a time (usually well into the small hours of the a.m.). Add to this the fact that I'm a shockingly light sleeper and a musician, so I wake up later than he does, AND add the radiators in my apartment that sound like someone is standing in the room hitting them with a hammer, AND add the fact that I live above the boiler room in my building into the mix, and you have a pretty miserable sleeping situation. I've been running on about 2-3 hours a night for the past month or so, and it's been ruining my productivity!I finally hit a breaking point yesterday, so this machine couldn't have come at a more perfect time. I ordered it on a Friday and it came on Sunday...totally amazed by Amazon Prime! My boyfriend left to hang with his dudes for the evening, and I went to bed early...before my upstairs neighbor and before the radiators came on. I was worried that the machine wouldn't be all it was cracked up to be, and I'd find myself unable to fall asleep AND woken up by my boyfriend coming back in after a night with the guys. I'm happy to report that I slept through it all, which is pretty much a life-changing miracle. This company and this product REALLY understand people who have a hard time sleeping, and I love that the display lights can be turned off. The sounds are really high-quality and don't lend themselves to obsessing about hearing patterns (although the meditation sound is too distracting for a musician to listen to). The volume is impressive, although you need to make sure to check your volume when you go from sound to sound, because they aren't consistent across the board. Rainfall is louder than Brook, for example.Big pluses:- It's super small and compact, and there's a nice cord keeper.- The adaptive sound feature does a great job of screening out the really disruptive noises. I slept with my window open last night (yay spring!), and I really liked that I could still hear the nice outside noises, like a breeze and some distant intermittent cars going by, but not the noises that I find irritating or disruptive to my sleep, like loud motorcycles or people walking outside or talking in the yard right next to the apartment building. For example: the adaptive feature made it so that I didn't hear my boyfriend flush the (industrial strength) toilet in the bathroom right by the room or the really loud stomps from upstairs, but I could hear some creaks and some of the quieter footfalls. The noise from the machine made it so that the noise from upstairs didn't dominate my consciousness, so I didn't get angry about it, and I processed it as simple background noise.- The sounds are really great to hear...I love the fireplace one. They're all super-relaxing, and the machine is easy to use.One note to consider:- I've tried the rainfall and the brook sounds for sleeping; I used the rainfall all of last night. I had it in adaptive mode, and sometimes the swell in sound as it covered a big noise was a little abrasive, so I'd kind of surface from my sleep (but I'm a CRAZY-light sleeper). I solved the problem this morning by switching to brook. You may need to experiment with what sounds work best for you in adaptive mode; don't just assume it'll be disruptive if one sound isn't working for you.I'm hoping to buy another one for my living room soon (since it's right under the neighbor's favorite speakerphone yelling spot). I got the best sleep I'd had in months last night, and I didn't even hear my boyfriend come in (that never happens, ever, even with the previous white noise machine I had). To be clear, though, this machine DIDN'T cancel out all of the upstairs noise entirely, but it took all of the edge and irritation off of it, kind of helping my brain incorporate it into a background noise, rather than leaving it out in the open for my tired mind to fixate on. I bought it after a reviewer said that it had stopped him from plotting against his upstairs neighbors, and I'm SO glad I did...I no longer feel like I'm a prisoner in my apartment.Give this a try; you'll be glad you did!