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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