Binding: Health and Beauty
Brand: Marpac
EAN: 0028377902451
Feature: Soothing and relaxing
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Label: Marpac
Manufacturer: Marpac
Model: 1288a
Publisher: Marpac
Studio: Marpac
MPN: 1288a

• Soothing and relaxing
• Promotes better and deeper sleep
• Listen to a selection of customized sounds
• Good for babies and shift workers

• Soothing and relaxing
• Promotes better and deeper sleep
• Listen to a selection of customized sounds
• Good for babies and shift workers

Sleep and Sound Machines can help you find a better, deeper night of sleep by providing a steady background comfort noise to soothe and relax. Our new top of the line model #1288A features the ultimate in sound conditioning. Choose from eight different "base" sounds then mix any combination of eight "overlay" sounds to customize your personal sound environment. You can easily choose from the base lake sound and overlay with shore birds. It is so easy to create your o special sound sanctuary. Includes auxiliary jack, touch and slide controls, optional timer, and detachable power supply. The Marsona DS-600A is the definitive collection of our customer's most requested, favorite sounds: Lake Shore, Surf, Country Eve, White Sound, Thunderstorm, and Brook. Choose only one sound at a time. Set on a timer or on continuous sound mode. The Sleepmate Model 980 (Dual Speed) and 580A(Single Speed) machines are white noise machines. They are ideal for those persons needing to sleep at odd hours, babies, and wherever outside noise is a distraction. The 980A offers a greater range of tone and volume than the single speed 580A.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Sound Quality and Overlay
Comment: This unit is not worth the money.........The overlays that you can select are horrible and would keep one awake ! Even with the straight sound, there are mild intrusive overlays that creep in (they come and go in a consistant manner so must be built into the program) I think I'll try Hammacher Schlemmer next since this Marpac doesn't cut it!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great idea, below average sound quality
Comment: The Marsona is an excellent idea. It basically allows you to create your own mix of nature/white noise sounds to sleep by. Let me start by saying that I use this product nightly and really enjoy it - but I'm still looking for something better.

Unfortunately, the built in speaker is very poor. I really couldn't get past the bad sound quality when I was trying to sleep. It was like trying to listen to a radio through a fast-food drive-through speaker.

I then hooked the line-out to my Bose clock-radio, which did make the sound tolerable. However, the sample-rate of the sounds recorded/simulated are of low quality, so they really can't be improved too much by a better speaker system.

On the good side, the sound variety and ability to mix sounds is wonderful. This provides you with a large combination of effects. If you want a surf with sea birds, bouys and loons one night, then a stream with hawks and frogs the next, it is easy. Don't like frogs? Add an owl instead.

My sleep is very important, and I'm willing to pay a lot for a better quality sound conditioner. Improve the sample rate of the sound and try again.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: So-so
Comment: Am unsure whether I'll return this or not.

This device has ~8 background sounds (2 rain, 2 waves, etc). I don't notice the problem with looping mentioned by others. There are ~8 overlay sounds which can be combined with the background noise- mainly various birds. Several of the bird sounds are a little unpleasant; when I first heard the owl I thought one of my kids was hurt.

My main gripe with this product is that when you keep it close by, there is a clear static background hiss at most volumes which becomes very annoying. I think if you were to keep it tucked further away into a corner that would not be an issue.

Thinking about it now, this device really doesn't do anything that a couple of $15 nature CDs can't do, & the CDs would likely have better sound quality.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Highly Recommended
Comment: My wife and I like the sound of the ocean so we run this machine during the daytime as well as night. The digital recordings are very clear and true-to-life. We can play two sounds at once - like sea gulls over the ocean. There is plenty of volume and the controls are intuitive if you're used to digital products. The only drawbacks is that I can sense the repetition in the gull recordings when I'm awake. It's a good product overall if you're an insomniac or have a baby.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A GREAT SOLUTION FOR REALLY LOUD NOISE
Comment: I live in NYC with a noisy nightowl neighbor, a busy street downstairs, directly above the A train (which runs all night). Did I mention I'm the lightest sleeper ever? I bought this a month after I moved in (sleep proved impossible), and it totally works! It is loud enough to block out the noisy neighbor's antics, the subway vibrating under the building AND the incessant traffic outside. I love the ocean sound. I slid the bass/treble to halfway, and I turn the volume up to just about halfway. I STILL have to use earplugs to REALLY silence the neighbor (I am THE lightest sleeper!), but I sleep well every night now. I love the 1288A and highly recommend it to people who have SERIOUS noise issues to contend with.

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