Description
- Play 25 Built-in Sounds: Discover a variety of sounds designed specifically for tinnitus relief, recommended by audiologists worldwide, with each sound lasting 12 hours for extended use.
- Seamless Streaming: Enjoy music or sounds with built-in Bluetooth technology, featuring a wireless range of 30’/10m for convenient listening from your device.
- Soothing Sound Oasis App: Access the included Sound Oasis Professional Tinnitus Frequency App, offering additional calming sounds to enhance your relaxation experience.
- Flexible Power Options: Utilize the built-in rechargeable battery (4-5 hours per charge) or keep the unit plugged in with the included charging cable for continuous use.
- Comprehensive Tinnitus Management: Enhance your wellbeing with the included “Living with Tinnitus” booklet, offering insights and strategies for managing tinnitus and improving sleep.
Manuel Farias –
Padezco de tinnitus, es tan fuerte el ruido de las “chicharras” que escucho que ya no podía dormir bien, fui a consultar y el doctor me recomendó este aparato.
Tiene 20 sonidos para elegir, yo elegí un sonido que recomiendan para los que padecen tinnitus, es lluvia con un “white noise”… que maravilla!!! Desde esa noche he podido dormir mucho mejor, mi esposa que no padece tinnitus también duerme mejor y tenemos dos perros Pugs que duermen en la recamara con nosotras hasta hemos notados que ellos también duermen más profundamente.
Este aparato esta soportado por mucha investigación en el tema y puedo dar testimonio de que realmente funciona.
Clevor –
This is a very good sound machine for those with tinnitus. The sounds are custom designed by MDs who specialize in tinnitus. There is also a well-written booklet that explains tinnitus.
If Sound Oasis is listening, here are some improvements I would suggest:
1. The volume adjustment goes to quite high levels, but for me I prefer lower sound levels. The level I prefer is near the bottom, about two up from baseline. But one level is a bit too high, and the lower one a bit too low. It really needs levels in between. Would be nice if it had something like 32 sound level adjustments.
2. Would like a timer on it. Because fortunately for me, my tinnitus is vascular-related. Whenever I get up at night to go to the bathroom, it gets noticeable when I go back to bed. But it usually subsides within 10-30 minutes after I lie down. So a 1-hour timer is fine for me.
3. Would like a soundtrack that mimics riding a local train, where you can hear the rhythmic sound of wheels over the rails. The bullet train soundtrack is too innocuous and nondescript. Would also like a soundtrack that mimics the sound of a crackling campfire.
I really like the tiny, compact size of the Sound Oasis, yet the sound volume is impressive. I don’t know how anyone can sleep when it’s gets that loud. That combined with the rechargeable battery makes it convenient for travel. Right now I am using the brown noise sound track.
I still need to experiment with soundtracks with nature sounds to soothe my tinnitus, and for that, the Sound Oasis can’t be beat. If you install the free Sound Oasis apps on your cellphone (there are two) you can access more tracks via Bluetooth. The variety of sounds is impressive. And with those tracks, you can use an equalizer on the apps to customize the soundtrack to suit your tinnitus.
I also like the memory card concept. So you can change the built-in sounds on the machine, which you can’t do with other sound machines.
Flora –
Lo regresé porque me confundí de aparato.
Ya me llegó Alexa y estoy muy contenta
R. L. –
Love the size and easy set up. Good variety of sounds.
Bread Lover YY –
For the price, an OK sound machine. Main complaints: 1. The sound card’s selections have a lot of high frequencies sounds (to my ears) which I find annoying. I found only the “Thunder and Rain” selection to be pitched lower. 2. The unit only works if you eject the sound card and then re-insert it when the power is on. When you turn on the unit with the sound card inserted, there is no sound (despite what instructions say), just a flashing blue light. You must eject the sound card–my unit came with the sound card inserted–and then reinsert it. So if you turn off the unit in the morning and then turn it back on that night, you must eject the sound card and then reinsert it. Not that big of a deal, but there is nothing in the instructions about this. Took trial and error and luck to find this out. I don’t know if this is a bug unique to my unit, but sending it back to try another unit would be a bigger hassle. I decided to live with it.
Sheila Walker –
used it when I got it and it is helping.
jane a moore –
Sounds great. Love the variety of sounds. Easy to use.
Rockster –
I have always had trouble sleeping from being a teenager until now in my 70’s. As a light sleeper, I seem to hear every pop and crack in the house at night and that keeps me awake. Plus, my mind won’t shut off either as I am listening to the night noises and going over the day’s activities in my minds eye. Our daughter and her husband take a fan with them when they travel and also use the fan in their bedroom at night to block outside sounds and give them enough background constant noise that other sounds in the house don’t wake them up. My brother does something similar. So, after all these years, I decided to look for something smaller than a fan that was easy to use and could travel with us without taking up too much room. Looking through my favorite on-line store, Amazon, I ran across this particular sound machine which had pretty good ratings. It was more expensive than many listed, but I like to go for quality. Plus, it has a choice of 20 different sounds to choose from where many of the others only had 10 sounds or less. And, the sounds are loaded on a MicroSD card which means you can add new sounds and are not stuck with just the canned sounds that come with less expensive sound machines. So, I chose this particular sound machine.
Impressions – This is really small, but t has some weight to it so does not feel cheap. The speaker is in the top and has a nice sound quality. Controls are simple, but you have to read the instructions to get the hang of how they work since some are dual use. There are 3 buttons located on the bottom of the front side. The middle is the power button. You have to hold it down for several seconds to turn it off and on. the other 2 buttons are + and – so a quick push of either adjusts the volume. If you hold the + or – buttons down for a couple seconds, the box goes to the next sound clip. So, you cycle through the list of 20 sounds by holding down the + or – buttons, listening to the sound, and going on if you don’t like the sound that is playing. There is a card in the product box that lists all the sounds. Volume is good and has a pretty good range from low to high.
The battery is rechargeable and seems to last a good time. One night, I left it unplugged and it ran for 5 hours and was still going strong when I turned it off. So, length of time on the battery might be variable depending on how loud you have the box turned up. I have it turned down to fairly low and it lasted for at least 5 hours. The unit comes with a USB charging cord. You can plug it into a USB port of a computer to charge it or you can use the wall plug of your cell phone charger to plug the cord into and charge via a standard AC outlet. This unit does not come with the AC wall converter plug but any cell phone charger plug with a USB port will charge this nicely.
Another nice feature is its bluetooth capability. On the bottom of the box is a small button (hard to see) with the letter M on it. You can turn bluetooth on and off with this button. Turning it on, my Motorola android smartphone paired right up with it. And now, you can play any music from your phone through the sound machine speaker – cool.
My only complaint about this machine is that there is no fan noise in the 20 different sounds that come with this machine. The fan noise – like a box fan – was important for me to have on hand. It does have a microSD card with the 20 mp3 sounds on the card and this card can be replaced with different cards that have other sounds stored on them. In fact, you can purchase more sounds from Sound Oasis to get what you want. However, at $4.99-$5.99 per sound, it can get expensive. My solution was to find a free sound app in the Google Play store that has the fan sound I wanted and I can play that sound through bluetooth to the Sound Oasis machine. That saves me a few dollars but it means I have to have my smartphone plugged in next to my sound machine and turned on all night. So, it depends on how you want to go. My suggestion to Sound Oasis is to drop one of the too many sounds that have water of some sort flowing, splashing, dripping, raining, etc. and add a box fan sound to replace it. Most people like the sound of a fan background when they are sleeping and this would make the Sound Oasis box complete.
Bottom Line – This is a great sound machine of high quality and great capabilities and I am very happy with my purchase. I like the Pink Noise sounds and I have found that the constant pink noise running all night calms my active mind and allows me to get to sleep a lot faster. Plus, I seem to sleep a lot deeper which means I actually get up in the morning feeling a lot fresher than I ever used to. One of the 20 sounds that come with this machine should be a box fan. It does have pink, brown, and white noise sounds to pick from along with the many kinds of water sounds, birds chirping and one music sound that’s kind of Zen-like.
Update – 9/9/2019
Well, this device is more versatile than I thought. After using it for a while, I still give it 5-stars. I also discovered that I can download any mp3 sound file from the Internet and load it onto the micro USB card in the sound machine and play it. I have taken the USB card out of the sound machine and plugged it into my computer with a microUSB to USB adapter, moved all the sounds I don’t like onto my computer for perhaps future use, and kept only the sounds I like on the card. Then, I found some desk/floor fan sounds on the Internet (free) that were about an hour long and loaded them onto the microUSB card and plugged it back into the sound machine. Now, I have all the sounds I want on the card. And, I discovered that after the sound machine plays the short (1 hour long) mp3 fan sounds I loaded onto the card, it repeats automatically and replays the sound. So, at the end of the loop, the sound slowly goes down in volume, seems like it quits, and then starts over automatically. So, even shorter mp3 sounds will play all night. You could probably use it as a music player except it would just replay the same song over and over because it won’t skip to the next mp3 on the card. The wife and I really like this machine. We just plug it in every night and unplug the machine during the day, so the battery is not subjected to the charger when it is not in use. In August, we traveled to Iowa and stayed at my mother-in-laws house for a few days. She lives in a very old house without too many wall outlets, so we had to use the battery in the sound machine for a few days. It lasted for 8 hours each night while we were there. I keep the volume less than half scale, so at least I know at lower volumes, it will last for 8 hours.
Ricardo Magalhaes –
I’ve bought this exclusively for sound enhancement for tinnitus (it markets itself as such) and I have some mixed feelings about this device. I didn’t like it at first, but now that I’ve tailored it to my needs I think I feel more warmly towards it.
The good stuff:
– Great sound quality for a little device! It’s on the heavy side and I think it’s because they didn’t cheap out on the speaker. Ocean waves actually sound like deep ocean waves, not like white noise.
– Decent battery life
– For better or for worse, all sounds are on an external card so you can add your own sounds to it
– You can technically use it as a Bluetooth speaker
The bad stuff:
– The system noises it makes are SO LOUD. If you’re pairing your phone to it and your partner is asleep, forget about it, they’re going to wake up. If you’re powering it off or on, you’re going to wake up whoever’s asleep in the bedroom. They’re so loud and you can’t turn them off.
– Most frustratingly, the built-in noises aren’t actually that great? There’s only 1 or 2 that are actually good for tinnitus. The others are weird combinations of white/grey noises that roughly sound the same and aren’t very pleasant. Yes, you can stream others using the app, but then you need to pair your phone to it… see point #1. But because sounds are on an external card, I deleted all of them, downloaded the mp3 files of my favourite tinnitus relief sounds from Youtube, and copied them onto the card.
– Not USB-C, which is annoying since it’s the only non USB-C device I own.
It’s not the best device for tinnitus, but if you’re willing to spend a few hours downloading mp3 files from your favourite Youtube ones, and copying them onto the card, you can turn this into a custom phoneless white noise machine that you can travel with.