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The Budget AVWOO Sleep Sound Machine Reviewed
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May 29, 2025
I won't say that this is a boring device, but the AVWOO White Noise Sound Machine will help you fall asleep. Or reach a meditative state. Or just be able to focus on studying or distract the baby so they can finally have a nap. And with its 20 hour running time on a single charge, it's a great travel companion too. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ had a chance to check out the AVWOO Sound Machine and found it had lots to like - including its budget price - but also one problem you'll want to know about before you decide to pick one up for yourself... Check it on Amazon at https://amzn.to/2TKbPLZ
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can this portable device help you sleep
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better let's check it out
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oh hey hang on turn this off Dave Taylor
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here and I'm looking at this while I'm
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resting and meditating while listening
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to this this is the AV woo white noise
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sound machine and it's actually a pretty
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nice little device as you can see it's
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form factor is basically a smoke alarm
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this is almost exactly the same size and
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from the back it looks the same but what
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it is is it's a sound machine so it
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generates a wide variety of noises and
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you have adjustable things like volume
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and how many times it's cycles and sleep
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settings and all sorts of stuff the most
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important thing though is it has a built
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in 1200 milliamp hour battery which
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means that you can run for 20 hours just
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off the battery that is pretty handy now
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it charges via micro USB and it includes
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a cable but you will need to bring your
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own charger almost all of us have those
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chargers or frankly you can plug it into
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your computer and obviously your
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computer's not going to know what the
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heck it is but it'll still get power
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from the USB port so it's still charged
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no big deal
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now I'll give you a tour in just a sec
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but it has an auto shutoff timer giving
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you 30 60 or 90 minutes of audio and has
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the ability to cycle through there are
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15 minute cycles or sequences of music
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or sound and then you can either have it
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go once and then be done or you can have
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it just keep cycling through and through
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now your maybe you don't understand 15
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minutes is really nice because there's a
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lot of sound machines out there where
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their cycle is like fifteen or thirty
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seconds and so what you end up doing is
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you lay there and you listen and you
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hear the repeating loop and that's very
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disconcerting I don't like those at all
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so having a 15 minute cycle means that
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I'm basically by the time that first
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cycle is over I'm either gonna be asleep
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or in a good meditative state which is
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actually one of the things worth
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mentioning is that this is really great
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for meditation or relaxation and it's
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also good for studying or doing work so
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like if you're a student and you want to
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be able to study without having all that
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distractions of everyone around you then
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something like this can be really nice
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now to be fair there is no audio out
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this is not intended to be something you
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use with headphones or earbuds that's an
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entirely different use case but the a/v
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woo does a nice job so what I want to do
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is I want to give you a close-up tour
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and let you hear all the different
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sounds before we do that let me just
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show you that the center is on/off and
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volume so I'm gonna turn it on and then
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turn it up pretty high so you can hear
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it and then we're gonna start with the
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white noise and pink noise sounds and
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let me turn down a little bit the way it
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works is that each button there's sort
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of a membrane on the bottom and each one
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has multiple sequences or status so I
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push the same one and it alternates
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between white noise and pink noise and
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then I push the second one and it
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alternates between fan and natural wind
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for example so now let's get back to
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that close-up so first off the leftmost
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button gets you single cycle or loops
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the second one is alternating between
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white noise and turn it up a little bit
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white noise and pink noise
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and then the next button alternates
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between fan
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which sounds it giving an airplane which
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is the last thing I want to be in more
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natural wind
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while always my favorite thunderstorm
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or ocean waves
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and birdsong or chirp which I guess is
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supposed to be crickets a lot of darn
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crickets and then finally you alternate
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between light music and lullaby so this
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I believe is light music and this is
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lullaby
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but lullaby has this weird sort of audio
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liquid sound
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[Music]
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I really know what that is so we'll go
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back to the thunderstorm that's just the
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nicest of the options and that's
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basically that's all the functionality
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imma go ahead and turn this off so
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that's all the basic functionality and
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its really nice I really like that it
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won't accidentally turn on in your
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luggage if you travel with this and I
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will tell you as someone who spends a
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lot of time in hotel rooms sounds really
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weird
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I go to a lot of conferences it is super
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beneficial super super nice to have a
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sound machine in your hotel room so I
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always have one of these devices in my
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suitcase a hundred percent of the time
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and sometimes you have to turn it up
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pretty loud to not have to hear the
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neighbors but other times it's just it
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helps just sort of mellow out the space
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and help you get to sleep so that's
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really nice
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now the only thing I will say as a
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criticism is that there are lights as
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you can see here on the bottom the
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things illuminate and you can't turn off
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all the lights so when you are using
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this however soft you have it whatever
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mode you have it in there's always some
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illumination and I know some people are
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super photosensitive at night and want
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to pitch-black room and if that's your
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situation then you might find that
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you're throwing like a towel over this
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or something I mean it's not that bad
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after it all settles down it's just the
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one function that's actually in use that
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is illuminated so I don't consider that
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a really big deal you could probably
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cover that up with a coin for example
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and do fine but I wish there was that
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maybe a little switch on the side that
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said turn off all lights so this is just
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another you know it's not a source of
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any sort of illumination if that's an
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issue to you it's an easy workaround
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anyway before I get to the price if I
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can go ahead and ask can you go ahead
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that and leave me a comment let me know
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do you use white noise machines do you
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have something like this for when you
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travel or do you have something like
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this in the baby's room so that they
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don't lay there and like cry every time
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you're I don't know the show on TV gets
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loud or something so I have found these
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sort of things really beneficial as a
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parent at a whole nother conversation
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so the price this is the AV whoo white
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noise sound machine and it is a very
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modest $19.99 on amazon.com that is a
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pretty darn good deal this would make a
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lovely stocking stuffer if you're
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looking for something like that or gift
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but even just for yourself this can be a
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really nice way to get a little more
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control over the audio environment that
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you live it
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so since Dave - they're going up so let
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me get this up a little bit and get it
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to the right sound well catch you with
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my next video
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