![]() When you use the app (more on that below), you can set it to nursery calibration. Nursery calibration setting keeps the volume at a safe level The SNOOZ on higher volumes is much louder, and I find it blocks out most noise coming from outside my bedroom window – especially the air conditioning unit and distant sirens, which is great. The Dohm devices are notoriously quiet and not that good for masking external sound at night. In contrast, the SNOOZ actually has volume control buttons that let you specifically adjust the volume in 10 incremental steps, from fairly quiet to surprisingly loud. And as you turn the cap, the volume changes somewhat with the tone. For example, you can only choose between two speed settings with the Dohm DS, which also changes the volume. I’ve long criticized the Dohm range of fan-based white noise machines for their lack of volume control. I’m not convinced by the latter, but in any case, it sounds great across the full range. The instruction manual says it ranges from a normal room fan to the sound you’d hear in an airplane cabin. I really like the way you can adjust the tone as it lets you pinpoint a fan sound that you enjoy listening to. ![]() I imagine they were inspired by the Dohm range when coming up with that design. ![]() The SNOOZ has a similar mechanism to change the tone – just twist the side cap. I don’t want to make this review a running comparison of the Dohm and SNOOZ, but it will be helpful for a couple of points since Yogasleep pioneered this style of sound machine. As you’ll see below, not only does it sound really good, but it has more features than you usually find in mechanical white noise machines. Personally, I’ve been won over by the SNOOZ though. There are a couple of other devices that use real fans, most notably the Yogasleep Dohm line, which ruled the white noise roost for many years (Yogasleep was previously called Marpac). And although the best models sound pretty convincing, it’s never as authentic as a real fan. Most white noise machines use recordings so that they can give you a wider range of white noise, fan and nature sounds. And in my case, can lead to toe-stubbing moments in the middle of the night if you have it next to the bed! Using a normal fan isn’t a problem in the summer, but you end up pointing it at a wall in the winter to avoid an unwanted draft. Stick a real fan inside a stylish external casing and give people a way to listen to a fan sound at night without having a much larger real fan blowing air around the room. The core concept of the SNOOZ is relatively simple.
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