Good??? portable sleep sound machine?

Hi,

I recently got a Conair portable machine, but it's terrible. Usually I use a box fan, but like to take a boat out and stay a couple nights a week on beaches and it's not practical to use a box fan out there. The Conair makes a white noise just fine, but for whatever reason it also produces other repetitious sounds in the background that are the very type of thing I'm trying to drown out! It's horrible. Can anyone suggest a portable type of machine that makes a nice clean white noise without adding any extra very much unwanted extra noise? Preferably something reasonably priced.

Thank you for any help!
David

David,

I noticed that this is your first post.

Are you on a CPAP machine?

I got this on sale for just under $100.

http://www.amazon.com/SOUND-Adaptive-So ... B0082ZP0WI

I couldn't really find a good recording of calming sounds that I liked so I made my own 10 hour loop by cutting and splicing sound snippets from different free sources (mostly forest sounds with birds, streams etc). Just Google them. I edited those sound clips with a freeware program called 'Audacity' and put them on an SD card about the same as the one that goes in your average APAP machine. Mostly it was just a series of Ctrl-C then Ctrl-V repetitions. I currently use an inexpensive Naxa boom box to play the sound loops all night long. It's not too hard to do and it gives you the exact results you are seeking since you can set the sound levels and balance as you wish. It's great for suppressing traffic noise and household clatter too.

Here's the boom box:

http://www.amazon.com/NAXA-Electronics- ... B00JST4TLA

JimP wrote:David,

I noticed that this is your first post.

Are you on a CPAP machine?

No, in fact I don't know what one is. It's just a cheap *portable!* Conair sound machine that will run on four AA batteries.

hobbs wrote:I got this on sale for just under $100.

http://www.amazon.com/SOUND-Adaptive-So ... B0082ZP0WI

Will it run on batteries?

Sir NoddinOff wrote:I couldn't really find a good recording of calming sounds that I liked so I made my own 10 hour loop by cutting and splicing sound snippets from different free sources (mostly forest sounds with birds, streams etc). Just Google them. I edited those sound clips with a freeware program called 'Audacity' and put them on an SD card about the same as the one that goes in your average APAP machine. Mostly it was just a series of Ctrl-C then Ctrl-V repetitions. I currently use an inexpensive Naxa boom box to play the sound loops all night long. It's not too hard to do and it gives you the exact results you are seeking since you can set the sound levels and balance as you wish. It's great for suppressing traffic noise and household clatter too.

Here's the boom box:

http://www.amazon.com/NAXA-Electronics- ... B00JST4TLA

Thanks, I might eventually try doing it that way but so far it still seems there must be something decent out there for an affordable price. Finding it is the problem...