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So I really want to get a noise machine. I know nothing helps me sleep better than the sound of rain falling, but I'm curious to see how other noises works, too.
I'm extremely uninterested in "White Noise", which is all that comes up when I check out Ebay with "Noise Machine". Even checking it out on Google, all I get is white noise machines.
My question is...how many people use/have used a machine like this (white noise or otherwise)?
Have you found it useful? Do you listen to different sounds on different nights?
I was thinking about whether or not I could handle listening to beach sounds or jungle sounds, but I think I really just want realistic rain. Maybe even some thunder (the best part of sleeping during rain, imo).
If anyone can give me a good brand that would be great. I can't imagine there's that much difference in "quality"...but then again, I really have no clue.
Thanks, EDF.
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I have an old receiver and decent speakers in my bedroom and used to have a single platter CD player (without the ability to play DVDs, mp3 CDs and so on). A CD only player makes it easy to hit a couple buttons and loop a conventional CD such as a
Relax With (insert nature sound here) all night.
I'd play it fairly loud; I previously had a sound machine (the kind of thing you buy at Sharper Image) but it wasn't loud enough for me. With the stereo a running stream can sound like it started high in the Sierras and you are camping five feet away. With the sound machine it sounds like a running faucet in another room.
Now I have a DVD/VCR combo player and TV in the bedroom that plays CDs. But a combo player means I got to go through about seventeen steps to get a CD to loop which means lately I just turn on a fan. Meanwhile I'm looking for an old style single tray component sized CD player on the cheap [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
Good actual music for sleeping is almost anything by the Cowboy Junkies. Margo Timmons voice is simply angelic.
~ Rick
PS If you get the "Relax With" CDs (the ones for $3.99 in the link) get them without orchestra overlay which IMO defeats the purpose.