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REVIEW: Sound+Sleep Machine & Sound+Sleep Nomad
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May 30, 2025
Dave Taylor reviews the slick Sound+Sleep sound therapy systems that generate super high quality environmental loops to help you drift off to sleep and stay deep asleep, even in noisy environments. Two devices are reviewed: the Sound+Sleep basic unit and the Nomad travel device. Verdict: Very cool. With one reservation that you'll want to know about before you make a purchase decision, however... Learn more about the Sound+Sleep Machine here: https://www.soundofsleep.com/product/soundsleep/ and use code DTAYLOR10 for a 10% discount on purchase!
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oh hi Dave Taylor here and you know I
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don't know if it's just me but does this
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sound like the
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ocean doesn't it sound like we're at the
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beach well it does in fact sound like
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that because I have a really slick
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device called a sound sleep let me turn
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it down a little bit and these make
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Environmental noise and you can use it
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as a white noise generator but in fact
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you can also use it to give yourself the
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sound of the ocean of
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perhaps some
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rainfall if you're in the country and
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you're used to city noise
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entertainingly that's city noise you'll
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hear honking and cars and such
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just sort of you know the sounds of
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being in the city I don't know you know
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whether there are lots of sirens like
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there are with I'm in big cities um and
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one more let's
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do what does it sound like we're on the
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train right so these are really really
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slick devices and I got them because my
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kids don't sleep very well and I've been
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using expensive floor fans as white
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noise generator as and I thought it'd be
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interesting to try something different
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so the sound sleep very nicely sent me
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their device and this one has 10
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different sounds it is City rainfall
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Brook meditation White Noise waterfall
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fireplace ocean Meadow and the one we're
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listening to the train so let's do one
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more
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Meadow so it's obviously Meadow at night
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also known as
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crickets but they're really cool and I
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got to say that I've listened to a lot
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of these sort of devices and most of
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them really stink they have about a
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maybe 10 or 15 second cycle and then
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they just Loop through it and so if you
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hear something you start to recognize
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patterns and it actually doesn't help
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you sleep it actually keeps you awake
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cuz you're sitting there listening into
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the pattern but these guys I don't know
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what magic they've done in here but
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these things are great and the sound
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there's I don't hear any repeating it's
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just like multiple Loops doing different
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things simultaneously so obviously the
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Cricut we're going to have sounds the
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same but otherwise these things turn out
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to be really great and let me go ahead
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and turn it off so finally you can hear
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me talking that's good um has lots of
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features you can turn off the display
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lights there is a timer so you can have
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it turn off after 30 60 90 minutes or
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even 2 hours and there's also the
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ability to adjust the base level so in
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some environments you might want to not
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have so much in what they call richness
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and there's also an Adaptive system
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where for some reason if you're in a
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noisy environment it'll actually change
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how loud it is based on the other noises
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in your environment so that's handy and
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what's this little guy this is the
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portable one so this is The Nomad the
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sound sleep Nomad and it's battery
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powered and between the two of these
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they both pump out a lot of volume if if
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you look the whole Top's actually a
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speaker so there's definitely lots to do
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there and you know between these and my
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kids rooms my daughter who's a teenager
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who as is typical with most teenagers
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doesn't tend to slow down to sleep very
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much she said that this device has given
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her the best sleep she's had in a really
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long time so I really really like these
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things I really like everything about
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them except except one thing let me come
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zoom in close and you'll see what I mean
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the issue is that they're just not that
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great the way they're built they feel a
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lot like something you would get at
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somewhere like um Sharper Image and you
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can see on the buttons they're they just
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look plasticky and that's the only
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criticism I have cuz these are fairly
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expensive devices but then again when
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it's a dark room and you're trying to
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sleep what a button looks like doesn't
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really matter what really matters is
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what it all sounds like so let me put on
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a our
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fireplace make it a little louder so you
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can hear
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it and we will drift away to the end of
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our YouTube video with the fire going so
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thanks for watching and you can find
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more reviews on asfe taylor.com
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