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Tired of being woken up by noises in the night, or maybe you just want to be able to focus without distractions? You'll appreciate the compact Renpho White Noise Machine whether you're using it to prevent people overhearing confidential conversations or as a sleep sound machine at night - or on the road.
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Renpho White Noise Machine and finds that there's a lot to like, particularly at the price. But there's one gotcha you'll want to know about too...
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This device can help you sleep and focus better
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Let's check it out. Dave Taylor here, and I'm looking at this
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This is the Renfo white noise machine. Now, I tend to call it a sleep sound machine
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but it does more than just sleep. It actually basically just creates background noise
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so that you can focus on what you're doing and not be distracted
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So we'll talk about it, but let's go ahead and start. with some sounds. Now, first off, here's a close-up of the buttons. The top three actually
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aren't buttons. There are little tiny lights that show you your timer, 30, 60, 90 minutes, or you
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can just leave it on. And then the next row are actually what are known as nature sounds
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or fan sounds, hence the picture of the fan, or white noise sounds. Now, it's funny, actually
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because there's white noise, pink noise, gray noise, brown noise, all these different colors
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They basically sound the same. They're just in different frequencies. And then the lower one is to access the timer, volume up and down, and then power
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But whatever, let's go ahead and turn it on. So we're going to start out with this nature sound, and this is a train
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So let me just be quiet. You can hear it. Makes you want to take a train trip, actually
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But now I'm going to go ahead and tap a couple of times on the nature sounds button
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Let's see what we get. That's a pendulum. I'm pretty sure that would drive me bonkers, but I don't know
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Other people might like it. Let's see what else we got. Rain, that one's nice
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Wind through a forest maybe. There's a nice
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There's a nice bright, loud rainstorm. This is the old babbling brook who doesn't like this, right
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So let's jump to the fan sounds. Let's see what those sound like. So just push fan
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And here's the thing. They're all non-looping sounds. So if you listen to the babbling brook for example or you listen to this there no patterns that emerge It not like there a 90 sample and then you can hear it start over They just continuous loops and you don hear anything
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So they basically will run forever without repeating. They probably are repeating, but you just can't hear it. It's seamless
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So let's hear a couple of different fans. So we have this. This
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This one. Not a big fan, as it were, of fan noises
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So let's jump to white noise. And on all of these, you just push the button multiple time to cycle through all of the options
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You can hear what I'm saying about. They're just like that noise just at different frequencies
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Yikes. Let's go back to the babbling brook. And I'll turn the volume down a little bit
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So the Renfo features 36 non-loping sounds. It has 18 nature sounds, which is pretty impressive, 11 fan sounds and 7 white noise sounds
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It also has, like I said, the 30, 60, 90 minute timer, or you can just leave it on
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And the other cool thing about it is it actually has a hands. headphone jack on the front. So you can use this. And instead of using the speaker that's on top
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which, as I hope you can hear, actually sounds pretty darn good. You can actually just plug it
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into like earbuds or they have like a special little microphone that can go under a pillow
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And then you get to hear this and your partner doesn't have to. Now, I will tell you
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these are fantastic when you travel. They are good. Let's turn it off. Okay. So calm
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They're not only good for you sleeping better because you have this to block out all the ambient sounds around you, but they're great if you travel with kids because you put this on, then the kids go to sleep and then you can be at the other side of the hotel room actually like watching TV or on your computer or talking to your partner or something
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And they aren't sitting there listening to every word because they have this is sort of serving as a distraction
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Now on the white noise side these devices I find a lot are in like therapists office or anywhere where they confidential conversations So maybe an attorney might have one of these in the lobby or on the floor right by their door to their actual office So you can sit there and listen to what they talking about This is actually creating that block or that barrier to the acoustics
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So pretty darn handy stuff. And let me show you on this on the bottom
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It's kind of fun. So it has actually, it comes with this USB to custom little plug cable
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And then that plugs into the bottom. and then there's this sort of curly little channel that you run the wire along so that it will sit flat
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Now, unfortunately, the documentation talks about having a charger and charger cable, but there's no battery in this
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So on the bright side, it's only 14 ounces, so it's really light, easy to travel with, easy to pack
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On the downside, there's no battery, so if you lose power, then you're dead. You know, well, let's freeze that differently
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If you lose power, then your device turns off. I don't know whether you're dead or not
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That's not the case. So it's the unit, it's the cable, and then it comes with its own little power adapter, and that's all great. And the cable's actually an okay length. A lot of these come with really short cables, which is annoying, because then, you know, you have to have it right by the power plug. And in a hotel room, that is typically not actually an optimal placement in terms of having it be noise to help you sleep
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Now, my biggest criticism of this is this custom connector. I wish they would have used a more generic connector like a micro USB
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I know I make fun of micro USB connectors, but they are really common
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So if you lose this cable, you're a bit out of luck because there's no way to plug anything else in to power this
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And since it doesn't operate off a battery, it literally is just going to be, I don't know, a big plastic hockey puck until you can find this exact cable again
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So not thrilled with that, but otherwise there's a lot to like about this Renfo white noise machine
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And in particular, the thing that's most important to me is that the sound quality is actually really good
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So if we again, let me just turn this on and let's see if we can pick a different sound
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So there we go. There's a bit more of an active river. Just listen for a second. This is a really good quality sound
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You put this by a window and didn't find. tell people they might well make the assumption you right by a river So very nice very well done It has a very nice speaker on the top And it light it small it about two and a half inches tall by 4 inches around So you know maybe could have been a bit smaller but it not a bad size
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It's certainly highly portable with all these pieces. So I like it. Now, I turn the vine down
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a little bit. Okay, there we go. So now while we go and sit by our little brook and enjoy the
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sound of the water, I will ask that you, yes, you subscribe to my channel so you can find out
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highly encourage you to subscribe and give me feedback too. Appreciate all of it. that. Now, that's it. So, this is the Renfo white noise machine. Let me give you the model number
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It's on the box somewhere. Let's see. It is RP WNM-008, just in case you want to make sure you get the
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right one. And it is a very pleasantly priced 3299 at Amazon.com. And when I checked, just before I
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recorded this video, the company was also offering a 5% discount coupon, which would drop the price
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down to right around $30. And I will tell you, if you've ever been woken up in the middle of the night in a hotel room
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on a road trip or on a vacation or something, this is so worth its weight
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It is so worth bringing along because something like this will stop that from happening
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unless it's like a fire alarm or something, which happens too. But generally speaking, if you have noisy neighbors or partiers going down the hallway or
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something at two in the morning at your hotel, something like this with some appropriate sounds
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turned on can make a way. world of difference. So I say check it out and this is great for studying too. So get more
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focused and sleep better. What else can you ask for? And with that, that means I will hope to
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catch you in my next video