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Roffie N500 Sleep Sound Machine - REVIEW
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Jun 22, 2024
Whether you're trying to have the baby sleep longer and more peacefully or want to enjoy better sleep yourself, the Roffie N500 Sleep Sound Machine is worth checking out. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ tried out the Roffie Sleep Sound Machine and found that it's not only great for babies, kids and adults, but can help you work better too. That's right, using it can help you ignore distracting sounds and focus on your task too. Handy! Learn more on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2VFrcXH
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Sleep better and be less distracted with this sleep sound machine. Let's have a look
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Dave Taylor here and it's easy to get distracted whether you're working at home at an office or anywhere else
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More importantly, it's also easy to get distracted when you're trying to get to sleep or trying to stay asleep
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So let me close up my computer done enough work for today and instead let's talk about this
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This little device is the Rofi n500 sleep sound machine and it's very cool
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So it has six groups of sounds with five variations of each type
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It has a 35 level increment on volume You can go from the low of 40 decibels, which is barely noticeable up to a pretty substantial 75 decibels
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So you can get it just right which is nice on the back. You'll see in this close-up. There's micro USB for charging
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There's a 30 60 and infinite timer and what's an infinite timer
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It means that it'll just stay on until you turn it off and there's a 3.5 millimeter audio jack for headphones
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And that's really cool So one of the things I've been experimenting with is actually using this with headphones when I'm working as a way to just help me
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Sort of get in the zone and really stay focused turns out that works really well
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But the sound itself on this is really remarkably good It's actually a really nice audio system
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And I just kind of wish there was an audio in so I could just use it as a speaker
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But it is focused on just sleep sounds and white noise and it does that well
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So on the front here's another close-up the vertical bar shows you which of the different sound groups you're currently connected to and
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From the top down its fan rain forest ocean brook and heartbeat and
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Then along the bottom you can see the buttons the down arrow lets you step from one sound group to the other
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The cycle button lets you step between sounds in a specific group
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power obviously on and off volume up and down now power also is worth mentioning because
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You can turn it on and get to exactly the volume level and the sound you like and when you turn it off and turn
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It on again, it'll remember and it'll start right there Which is really nice if you get it just to like a favorite sound for your toddler or something and the sounds are really nice
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Now we'll get there in a second. So it's four and a half inches across two and a half inches tall 12 ounces
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So it's certainly very portable. If you want to travel you can take it with you
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It is powered by that micro USB it comes with a micro USB cable comes with a charger and
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You can do variations, right? so you can plug this in to your computer and power it or you can plug it into if you have a wall plug that
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Has a USB connection on it as many of us now do you can use that
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You don't even have to use their cable Frankly, if you already have micro USB, you can just plug this straight into your computer or something and you're good to go
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Which means that when you're traveling and on the road, you don't have to carry that much more gear
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Just put this in your suitcase and you are ready to roll and I will tell you I
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Always travel with one of these when I'm in a hotel because I don't want to hear the sounds of my neighbors
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so much nicer to just turn on a sound machine and you are just in the zone and able to sleep and stay asleep real
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win, so we have talked about this and I've demonstrated sort of the look of it, but really it's all about the sound. So let's do that. Let's turn it on
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And I'm gonna turn the volume up a little bit so you can actually hear it better I'm gonna start with one of the
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brook sounds And let's push the variation button, which is the second one in and I'll see what other sounds we have
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I Kind of a loud owl, so I'm not sure I like that one, but the other ones terrific, right
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So let's try a different sound group. So again, I just push down on the arrow
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That gets me to ocean I Think we're at rain so worth mentioning
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Turn this off for a second So worth mentioning is that there is an indicator light on the front but it's not designed for a bright well-lit environment
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Like this is designed for a dark bedroom. So I actually Can't really tell what sound group we're in
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So we're just sort of figuring this out But I just want to compliment them on the fact that it's a very low illumination very subtle light is great
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Too many companies have big bright indicator lights, which is really great when the lights on but when you turn the light off
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You don't need those different points of light in the room. That is not good
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So they got that right really the only criticism I have of this
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I really like this machine and it's really has a nice feel to it. The sounds are great. They're non cyclic
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So they don't repeat if you just lay there and listen, you'll want here repeat
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I don't know how they do that magic, but it just works, right? I just don't like the micro USB just not a fan of the micro USB connector because of the orientation issue
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But other than that, it really got everything right here. Okay back to sounds
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So we have this This is the heartbeat and this one's kind of fun because there's some there's a strange variation in here. So we have this
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This one which really sounds like the background of a spaceship on a sci-fi movie
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This also sounds like that but maybe like 50 years ago And I think this is supposed to sound like what it would be to be like swimming with porpoises or something
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I'm not sure. This is kind of interesting though Any Ideas leave a comment tell me what you think this sound is remember it's under the heartbeat
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Okay, so another group And variations So that's basically just white noise
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That's Definitely white noise now in the forest
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So we're back to where we started and I just got to say the sounds are really cool
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You'll have a lot of fun just going through different sounds and if you have a baby
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Then having one of these on basically all the time in their room or in the nursery or something or right by their crib or whatever
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Can really help it'll really help them be able to just relax into their sleep time and it'll help you regain
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Retain a little bit of sanity because a super light sleeping baby is exhausting
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And my kids use these too, you know, I have trained them perhaps but they really like having these sort of things in the bedroom
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While they're trying to sleep and they're not little babies anymore So this is something that everyone can really use and really appreciate so definitely worth checking out lots to like about it
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I'm gonna turn it back off for a second because It's actually making me
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It's a whole nother story Anyway, so before we talk about the price and it's super reasonably priced before we talk about the price
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Anyway, okay. So this is the Rofi N500 sleep sound machine and it is a very modest
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$29.99 at amazon.com Definitely worth checking out. There are a zillion sleep sound machines on Amazon
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but you really want to get one that has really good audio because it makes a difference and
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This one definitely matches that and you know more really exceeds that it does a really nice job
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Lots to like I'm gonna turn it back on and who knows maybe I will have a nap. Let's just find
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I'd much rather be at the ocean anyway, so With that I'll catch you in my next video
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