Sound Oasis S-850 Travel White Noise Alarm Clock
Customer Review:
"Two features made this product extremely useful given my situation: A necessary need to block the noise of what sounds like monster trucks racing up and down my street every Friday and Saturday night (all night long). A headphone plug-in was a must, as was a method of playing sound all night long: This model has several timed settings and one that allows "playback" until you manually shut it off.
It is also great that one of the nineteen sound settings is one that seems to provide just the right amount of bass and monotony to help me sleep quickly and thoroughly; the others I find quite annoying or, worse yet, interesting (the kiss of death when you just want to sleep). But, I allow for how everyone has their thing. My point being, that there is so much to choose from, I believe that most anyone would find their pet setting.
One thing to watch for: Because I was impatient to block as much noise as possible, I would turn the sound as high as it would go (there is a beep at the highest setting, and it will not let you turn it up any further). After several hours of this, my ears would ring. Not good. By experimenting, I have found a happy medium of volume wherein most of the sound is masked and I'm not doing any damage (if ringing ears is an indicator of this, which I believe it may be)."
--T. Faulkner
Verified Customer
What a great review. Thanks for writing, T. Faulkner!
You know, T. Faulkner brings up a really great point here that I don't think we've ever addressed before: remember that white noise is still noise! (It's not as obvious as it sounds.)
No matter how soothing or pleasant your personal white noise blend may be, exposure to any high-volume sound can damage your hearing, and that unfortunately includes white noise sounds. Keep the white noise down to a safe volume -- and if you have ringing ears, turn it down... because yes, that is definitely a warning sign that you may be experiencing noise-induced hearing loss!
If you're listening to white noise via headphones or earphones, and you find that you just can't get enough volume to block unwanted noises without cranking it all the way up, try getting some earphones with noise blocking. Pipe your white noise through sound-blocking earphones (tip: isolation earphones with an NRR work best to seriously block out noise), and you'll find you are able to block ambient noises more effectively -- and with the white noise at a lower volume, too.
Until next time, keep writing us, we love to hear from you -- and be safe and love your ears.
--Sarah Bergman, Web Developer
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