I bought the Sound Oasis S-550-05 nearly two years ago from Amazon. As a light sleeper, I need something to block out street, hotel and noise from guests that get up earlier than I do. My husband has also found that he sleeps deeper if we have white noise running in the bedroom. We’ve had a white noise machine at home for years, but as a vacation was coming up, and we needed a unit for our lake home, I did a lot of research before purchasing the Sound Oasis S-550-05.
My criteria in choosing this unit were the following: It had to be lightweight, a shape that made it easy to pack, must be able to use batteries, able to run continuously, loud enough to hear, and the most important thing to me were that it had to accept headphones.
We only use the white noise setting on our machines, so extra sounds didn’t mean much to me, but the opinions of other customers were important. This unit was rated highly by other consumers and had every feature that I needed. Honestly, it was the perfect choice for us.
Since purchasing the Sound Oasis S-550-05, it has stayed primarily at the lake house.
It keeps my husband and me sleeping through most of the noises, such as cars and trucks driving by. However, neither it, nor any machine out there can block the neighbor’s chain saw very early in the morning, nor the crazy blackbird that kept hitting every window each morning, trying to fight his reflection. But we don’t hear our guests when they get up to use the bathroom or their grandchildren playing in the sunroom.
I’ve packed the unit up and taken it along to hotels and to Hawaii and it has helped immensely since I don’t normally sleep well in hotels. If my husband gets up early and wants to watch TV, I plug in the headset and go right back to sleep. So far, I haven’t had to use batteries in it because the cord has reached an outlet everywhere we have been.
Some people complain about noise loops in various machines, but I have not noticed that at all.
I recently had to stay in the hospital for 3+ days. Since I expected to have a roommate, I brought along my headphones. Every hospital stay I’ve had has been noisy with fire doors slamming and all the noise from people in the halls. I’d forgotten about the beeping machines, so I was very happy that I brought the headphones along. There were plenty of nearby outlets, so I sent the batteries home with my husband. During this hospital stay, I was in a great deal of pain the entire time, and every time I moved, machines beeped. My Sound Oasis S-550-05 and headphones kept me from going off the deep end. The surgeon gave me a cassette player with meditations to listen to, but it was no help when I tried to sleep, while my Sleep Oasis got me snoozing.
I highly recommend the Sound Oasis S-550-05 Sound Therapy System. If I were scoring the unit on a 1-10 scale, I’d give it a 9.5. For me, the only complaint about the unit is that it will not hold your last selection when you shut it off. So when I turn it on, I need to hit the white noise button selection. It’s a small thing, but since I only use white noise, I wish that it would stay set.
A couple of weeks after returning home from the hospital, I unpacked the bag that had my unit in it, and realized that the base to hold it upright was missing. I contacted Sound Oasis to ask if I could purchase one, and Tina in Customer Service shipped one out to me at no charge and it arrived in less than a week from my original email. Now that’s Top-Notch Customer Service! You can bet that the next time I need another white noise machine, it will be one made by Sound Oasis.
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