Is there a good website that rates fans by power/noise/price? I don't actually care about the price much, I really want a quieter fan that won't make me turn up the music too loud to hear the details and wake anyone up.
Re:Jake Dyson Lighting
by freehunter on Monday July 20, 2015 @11:32AM
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Yeah, it's getting hard to find a fan that I can run at night to cover the noise of the city. Every time I buy a fan, it's quieter and quieter, but I like loud fans to help me sleep.
Re:Jake Dyson Lighting
by Someone1234 on Monday July 20, 2015 @12:10PM
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No sarcasm: Look into Nursery Sleep Soothers. While they sell white noise machines targeted at adults, they're all terrible because it is a niche market. But in the nursery sleep soothers category you can find a bunch of high quality white noise machines for a good price.
For example the Marpac Dohm has an actual spinning fan inside designed to generate white noise. But you can find digital noise simulators who can do: industrial sounds, water, fan noise, nature, and so on.
Is the Marpac Dohm actually targeted at nurseries? I've seen it quite frequently in medical waiting rooms. It helps provide privacy for those having sensitive conversations behind flimsy doors.
Re:Jake Dyson Lighting
by Someone1234 on Monday July 20, 2015 @01:38PM
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On Amazon at least they sell it under Baby Sleep Soothers and Sound Therapy Products.
I bought one for our baby's room, but when I decided I wanted one for myself, I hit on a much cheaper solution; I just turn my clock radio to an empty station and crank the volume.
Punch holes in the blades with a drill.
That and (perhaps) making the pattern asymmetric should restore the noise.
Re:Jake Dyson Lighting
by zimpenfish on Monday July 20, 2015 @11:32AM
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Apropos of nothing, Muji's USB desktop fan has contra-rotating blades and is amazingly quiet for the amount of air it can shift.
The rest of the electric fan market has shifted over the last ten-ish years to noise-efficiency. Meaning the most air movement for the least amount of noise. So we've seen new blade shapes, smarter motor designs, enclosures that attempt to dampen the noise, and so on. And Dyson's Air Multiplier could, in theory, have done well in that competition but they care more about form than function, so they stuck this tiny little motor with a higher RPM in the thing which has made it extremely loud for the amount of air that it can move.
In terms of noise-efficiency, it sounds as loud as fans from the 1990s and before.