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The Compact Sound Oasis BST-80 Sleep Sound Machine Reviewed!
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May 29, 2025
Sound Oasis BST-80 Portable Sleep Sound Machine: Whether you're a road warrior or just travel once or twice a year, a good portable sleep sound machine is a lifesaver when you're away from home. It masks the noises you don't want to hear and offers a relaxing aural environment to help you get to sleep faster, sleep deeper and wake up more rested. But sound sleep systems can also help mask noises and offer a pleasant background when you're working, studying or reading too. Tech expert and traveler Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Sound Oasis BST-80 portable sleep sound machine and finds it a terrific unit with a surprisingly budget-minded price. It's a keeper, watch the review to find out why. Just don't fall asleep while watching it! Learn more: https://www.SoundOasis.com/
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a sleep sound machine that I'll fit in
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your pocket let's check it out
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oh sorry so relaxing what you were just
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listening to is one of the twenty sounds
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included with this this is the sound
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Oasis BST eighty tiny compact travel
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sleep sound machine the track you were
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just listening to is called Hawaiian
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dream and it's one of twenty tracks
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included with this each of which is
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eight hours so there's no looping a lot
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of sound machines have like 20 or 60 or
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3-minute tracks 20 or 60 second or
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three-minute tracks and then they just
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loop so if you're the kind of person
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that lays there and tries to find
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patterns and things doesn't work really
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well these are eight-hour tracks which
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means that that's a nice night of sleep
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and you're not going to hear any
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repeating even if you lay there for an
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hour just listening because you can't
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get to sleep one night as you can see
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it's really small it's 2 inches tall two
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and a half inches in diameter and it's
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half a pound superlight not only that
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but it's a bluetooth speaker and has a
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built-in microphone so if you want you
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could use it for phone calls but let's
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go ahead and give one of the sleep
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sounds of demo so this is called summer
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night and I know it's hard for you to
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assess the audio quality but this
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actually sounds surprisingly good for
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something with such a tiny little
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speaker this easily would fill up a
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hotel room or a dorm room or something
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very nice now you can switch to
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Bluetooth there's a button on the bottom
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and that switches to bluetooth and I've
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already paired my phone so let's go
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ahead and listen to something from my
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phone oh hang on it appears to have
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forgotten the connection
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oh there we go okay we'll go back and
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try it again and with any luck this is
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not exactly sleep music but it works
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Bluetooth and that stops it again I can
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go to the bottom button and switch it
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back to the sound machine now there are
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turn that off for a second there are
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three buttons on the front that are
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almost invisible it's very subtle one of
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which does double volume as or double
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function as volume down and previous
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track the other one is volume up and
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next track and then the middle button is
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power on power off and pause play so
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that's what I'm using here so let's go
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back to play and then I'm gonna go ahead
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and just try a couple of different
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tracks
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so this is called rain with white noise
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the previous was called first with white
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noise and this one should sound familiar
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this is the music I was using on the
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we're gonna stop it because I'm gonna
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fall asleep on camera and that might
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demonstrate that it's a really good
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sound machine but probably isn't what
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you want to watch so it has a 500
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milliamp hour battery which probably is
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a little underpowered for it it gives
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you about 5 hours of play and it's a 2
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hour charge from zero you charge it on
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the back there is an aux-in and a micro
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USB connection for charging and there's
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the micro SD card and the micro SD card
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is really sort of the secret brains of
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this thing and it turns out that not
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only does it come with those 20 tracks
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and here's a quick even listing of all
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those different sounds that you get
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pre-loaded but you can actually go to
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sound oasis.com and download different
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tracks if you prefer having something a
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little different then you can actually
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buy individual tracks and put them
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either on this card but be careful
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because you might overwrite some of the
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existing ones or buy another micro SD
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card and you can go ahead and put on it
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whatever you want now if you do the math
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if you want to get 10 or 15 tracks it's
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actually cheaper to buy a custom custom
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micro SD card from Sound Oasis then as
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you can see here there's lots of
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different choices in which case you can
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get 10 tracks for $24.99 and 20 tracks
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for $34.99 now that's almost the price
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of this unit obviously they know that
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the audio tracks are really the value
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here though this is a very nice speaker
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but here's the thing is that they have
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tracks that are very specific design
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because this company has a deep
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background in sleep sounds and
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therapeutic audio and all this sort of
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stuff so they have special sounds for
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people with tinnitus they have ambient
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sound collection whale sounds they even
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have a set of yoga sounds and they have
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different sleep doctors that actually
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have created their own brown noise pink
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noise white noise I don't know rainbow
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noise now they don't have rainbow noise
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but they have all the other ones and
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there's just a lot to like about this
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this is really really nice I really am
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impressed by the sound quality I really
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like
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the built-in sounds this is definitely a
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keeper and something that I'll take with
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me on my travels I'm always looking for
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a really small sound machine and this is
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nice and it does double duty as a
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Bluetooth speaker so if I'm in my hotel
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room and I want to watch a movie on my
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iPad I can easily use this to get better
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sound out of it so that's nice the only
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criticism I have like I said earlier is
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I wish that they would have put a little
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bit bigger battery in it to give you
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eight hours off the battery instead of
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five but you can always plug it in and
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leave it plugged in overnight and then
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you have a perfect amount of time for a
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really good deep nap or hopefully that
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five hours might be just enough for you
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to get to sleep even if you're an
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insomniac in which case those last
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couple hours without any music probably
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doesn't matter that much so I like these
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let me know do you use sound machines
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when you're sleeping because I gotta say
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they're a big win especially if you
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travel a lot so leave me a comment let
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me know if you do anything like that and
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while you're interacting with YouTube go
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ahead if you don't mind and click on
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subscribe and even maybe give me a
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thumbs up if this is valuable really
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appreciate all that feedback good stuff
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so the price you're gonna be amazed by
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this the sound Oasis BST 80 with 20
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sounds built in on the microwave micro
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SD card is included with this along with
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a charging cable is $39.99 you can pick
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one up for yourself at Sound oasis.com
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but pay attention to their website
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because if you sign up for their mailing
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list you get 20% off your first
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transaction so you can get this for 20%
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less than that price and or you could
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also buy a couple of additional
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soundtracks if you wanted to so I'm a
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big fan this is going to become part of
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my travel kit I like it that much this
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is Dave Taylor and I might have to just
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go back to sleep now and have a nap so
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I'm going to turn this on and I will
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at you in my next video
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