TA550 – Compact Air Purifier Tower for Home, Quiet Ionic Filterless Design, Covers Up to 500 Sq. Ft., Removes Odors, Smoke, Dust, and Allergens – Black

Dad had purchased one and liked it so much that he bought one for me and kept one in his lake cabin as well as his apartment in town. When I first got it I rolled my eyes thinking that he had fallen for another gimmick. But I could not have been more wrong. I plugged it in and it was silent. I thought it wasn't even working. But I was wrong. The next time I walked into that basement room, there was something noticeably different. The air smelled great. Not stuffy. It smelled like the air after a rainfall! A few weeks later I noticed a slight buzzing sound coming from the Ionicbreeze and investigated, read the instructions, cleaned it accordingly; wiping away the black residue it had collected on it's blades with a damp paper towel and drying them. I also cleaned the wire by sliding the bar up and down a few times. The whole process took a minute or two. Then I turned it over and gently shook it a little and a few tiny dust particles fell from the vents. I repositioned the blades and viola. No purchasing of filters, no struggling, no mess. This machine is an electric miracle! It cleaned the air without even roping me into an eternal cycle of buying more filters! Jump ahead 5 years... I had let a friend borrow my ionic breeze for a few days... and this person moved to another town with it. I asked for it back, but realized that she needed it more than I did (enough said). When I tried to buy another, Sharper Image no longer existed but another company had a similar product. I bought one. Evion had the same technology and although the Ionicbreeze worked faster, the Evion product works just fine with the same effect, and I don't have to clean it as ofter. I have purchased one for each of my grown children who have families of their own. They in turn have purchased more for different areas of their home. We have one on every floor of our home. We never get a musty smell, we stay healthy, and we love this product. Do not waste money on filters. They don't come close to making the difference that the Ionized air does. Give it time to work... You will love it too.

This is a good ionizer, six years, it's still running! It seems up the air. Great room smells great! Knox dust intelligence down. We have our sitting on a countertop.In the corner in the kitchen. It clears up cooking smells really fast! This helps with allergies and knocking down all that dust! Easy to clean every few weeks! Didn't provide a picture because it looks just like it shows! Yes I would recommend buying this! I'm thinking of buying another one! I just wish I would get free.Offers like all these other people that review stuff! Lol. I paid full price for this!

First off I have had the original Ionic Pro when it was introduced on Sharper Image. There is one picture of both the New unit on old unit side by side. You need to know this is more for fine particles and generates negative ions which is most effective on small particles and odors. The metal plates collect the particles and they must be washed when the clean light comes on. There is no filter and the unit makes no noise except if it’s getting dirty and needs cleaning you may hear a faint buzzing.The Ionic Pro easily covers 500 plus square feet and will remove any odors and fill your home with that fresh post rain/lighting storm. Yes it generates ozone. Again Our family has used the previous version for over 20 years and never suffered any health issues other than helping to remove pollen and other allergens from the air. Helping with seasonal allergies.I bought a new one as I want to put one up at our lake cabin.How I understand it works is by generation of negative ions which attach to the various particles and instantly causes those particles to fall to the floor (the metal “filter”) catches most the particulates however if it misses some they will stay on the floor where they will be vacuumed or swept up when cleaning your floors.Everyone that comes to our home always comments on house fresh our house smells. We don’t use candles or any other “masking” room deodorizers or sprays. Just the Ionic Pro. There is always a fresh clean smell.We put it in a closet that had some musty odors and within 2 days that musty smell was gone and has. It returned.There are before and after pics posted so you can see the metal bars which act as the filter to attract the dust and dander again charged with negative ions.Great thing about Amazon is if you don’t like it you can always return it. BTW I have NOT received any money whatsoever for my review.

Experience: I bought this unit in 2020 and have used it off and on for about a year and a half now. Since it has no fan, it's great for leaving on all day without making noise — but it doesn't move very much air, which means it might not be great for a large area. I haven't had to deal with obvious smells, dust, or smoke yet, so I can't rate its effectiveness very well, other than that it does definitely capture airborne dust.Features: It has “high, medium, low” modes, but since it's so quiet, I can't see why you'd want to use the medium or low settings. (The blue LEDs are annoyingly bright, but a LightDims darkening sticker fixed that.) Popping out the collection blade unit to clean is easy. The one thing I wish it had was a timer, to automatically turn off at night. You can't put it on a plug-in timer because it resets to “off” when power is lost.It doesn't make any fan noise, but there is a very slight static crackling sound if I put my ear up to it, which I can't hear at all from farther away, though I'm in an apartment with a fair bit of outside noise so perhaps in a truly quiet space it would be more obtrusive. (As the instructions say, if it makes louder crackling noises, it needs cleaning.)I'm slightly concerned that the collection blades are showing a couple rust spots on one edge, but I don't know whether that would affect the effectiveness if they got rustier.