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LectroFan White Noise Machine Review
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May 30, 2025
Ever stayed at a hotel where the room was so quiet that you could hear everything through the walls, and every car that drove past? Or your kids could? Then you'll appreciate the new LectroFan portable white noise machine and its 10 fan sounds + 10 white noise sounds. Better yet, it gets really loud too, so it's also suitable for therapists offices or other environments where privacy is critical. Review by Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ Check out the LectroFan at Sound of Sleep: https://www.soundofsleep.com/product/lectrofan-classic/ and don't forget to use DTAYLOR10 for an instant 10% discount too!
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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let's talk about sleep so what I'm
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looking at here is I'm looking at the
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electro fan and honestly it just sounds
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like a superhero name so I liked it
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before I even got the product but this
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is from a company called sound of sleep
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and we already Ed their sound machines
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and they're really really good so when
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they came out with a new one that was
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specifically just a white noise
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generator I was kind of intrigued now
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there are a lot of situations where
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White Noise can be beneficial one of
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which is in a really dense office
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environment cuz it just gives you some
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privacy the vast majority of therapists
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for example have one of these outside
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their door so if you're sitting in the
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waiting room you're not saying hm what
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are they talking about but more
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importantly it's great for sleep and for
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me and for my family that was really why
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we got it so I actually tried it on the
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road here's a picture of it in a hotel
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room and we actually just drove up to
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Montana from Denver so it was like a TW
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2,200 M roundtrip stayed in a lot of
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hotel rooms it was a great trip and
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there were some hotel rooms where it was
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really really quiet and so having this
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little guy was great and actually it's
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on this whole time
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listen now suddenly all that background
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noise has gone away and here's the thing
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that we found is when we turn it on it
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would almost immediately just go into
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the background and it would just be the
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background level of noise and we
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wouldn't really be thinking about it but
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when it came time to go to sleep instead
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of being in those quiet rooms where
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you're listening for that faint little
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sound you just had this background noise
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now this is particularly interesting cuz
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the electro fan this is the big one um
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it's not very big but it's the larger of
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the two units they have it has 10 White
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Noise sounds and 10 fan sounds hence the
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name elran so let's switch
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so that's a fan sound now to be fair
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some of these I listen to and I'm like
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uh I don't really want to like be
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sleeping in the middle of some
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industrial environment but you can
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actually switch
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sounds so there's lots of variations and
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they're nonrepeating
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cyclic sort of sound systems so you can
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leave it on and you're not going to hear
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like a 30 second tape and then it stops
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and goes back in 30 seconds it's
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actually I think there's just some
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software in there generating all the
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waveforms so it's just a nice even sound
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and this is the fan sounds let's just go
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over to White
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Noise and you can see here in the front
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here's a closeup the controls are super
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easy to work with I mean it really
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couldn't be any easier and so this is
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different white noise
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and basically it's just different it'll
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it'll change the
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pitch and here's what's really cool this
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thing gets crazy
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loud so you probably can't hear me I
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certainly can't hear myself so I'm going
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to turn it off
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again so one of the things the company
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says is it actually is like 10% or 10 DB
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louder than any of its competitors
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something like that
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it's gets it really loud if you're in an
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environment where you really need to
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have background noise to give yourself
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privacy or to give other people privacy
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this is a real nice unit now let's just
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talk real quick about it so we got the
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10 um fan sounds and the 10 White Noise
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sounds it has a sleep timer so you can
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actually set different timers if you
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want it to just go on for 30 minutes and
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then turn off you can do that and
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obviously volume up down and it has a
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kind of interesting design choice
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because it has a USB plug so on the
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other end of this wire that I have
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plugged in is just a USB plug and a USB
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adapter so you plug it into your
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computer plug it into any USB charger
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but then this end of it is actually a
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sort of specific little plug it's not
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actually like a micro USB and I asked
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the company about that and they said it
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was because they needed that 90° angle
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to get it to plug
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in let's turn that off again
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um and that's legit I mean that's that's
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their design decision it's something you
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should know but it's great because if
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you have the right wire then you really
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have a very small compact unit that you
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can plug into anything you can plug this
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into your laptop if you needed to when
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you're on the road and so this
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particular one that I got also comes
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with a handy travel case which doubles
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as I don't know maybe as a Play-Doh mold
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now not just kidding don't use it as a
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Play-Doh mold
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um and here's the really great thing is
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they're really quite reasonably priced
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so this unit by itself is $49.95 comes
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in a couple of different colors they
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also have a smaller version of it which
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comes in pastel colors and that one only
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has six fan sounds and six White Noise
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sounds but it's perfect for the nursery
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so if you have a baby then a lot of
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times having some background noise in
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the baby's room can really help them
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sleep and sleep deeply which any parent
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that's watching this knows is an
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absolute blessing so here's the funny
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thing is the electr fan junor which
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comes in the pastel colors is the same
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price it's
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$49.95 and then if you want to get this
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plus the travel case then the whole deal
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runs
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$69.99 still not too bad at all and as I
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said from our field tests it's super
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great I mean this will always be in my
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suitcase from now on when I travel
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either by myself or certainly with my
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children because man you know they can
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be so alert to noise that I can turn the
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page in a book and there's like huh what
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are you so you still awake so this gets
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rid of all of that super useful so this
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is the electro fan and the pastel ones
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the electropan Jr you can learn a lot
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more at elran
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docomo where they got tons of great
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reviews anyway this is Dave Taylor and
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all this talk of sleep has made me want
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to have a nap
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so I'll catch you in my next video
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