Hi, this is Ethan green from No Sleepless Nights, and I'm going to be doing a
review of the LectroFan Evo. Evo presumably standing for evolution, as
this is the new model from LectroFan, who have long created one of the
most popular white noise machines - especially for nighttime and office use.
The main difference with this one is that it now has an extra two sounds. So there are
ten white noise, ten fan, an ocean and a surf. But probably for me, the most
important change is the inclusion of a headphone jack, which you can see there.
Normal standard 3.5 cable, so you can listen to it on your own in bed if you
want to. So if you're sleeping with a partner, they don't have to listen to
your white noise, which is great. So let's have a listen to the different sounds.
Turn it on. And we're going to start, I think this will be the fan sounds. They split
the buttons now, so on the left here you've got white noise and on the right
you've got fan sounds, which I think is also a nice little change. So you don't
have to go through all of them if you know exactly which kind of sound you
want to listen to.
So these are the fan sounds, and again there's going to be some industrial, and some which are
more house fans.
And there's the tell-tale Boop sound which always makes me laugh. It's the sound
that tells you that you've come to the end of the ten sounds. Let's go through
the white noise ones.
Nice deep white noise to start with. I think they call that brown in the
instruction manual.
This one is chestnut. Cinnamon - not quite sure where they get the exact color
description from, but I guess it's nice to have them anyway.
These are more in the pink noise range.
These are building towards pure white noise.
Now we have the ocean sound, followed by the surf. To be honest, I don't think I
would call these ocean surf sounds. This one's the surf. I think that the great
thing about the LectroFan Evo is that it digitally creates the sound with the
internal speaker, rather than having an actual motor or fan. But where I think
they tried to create an ocean or a surf sound it just doesn't sound as good as a
recording to me. So personally, my view is that if you really want to listen to
ocean and surf and jungle and birds and all that kind of thing, probably a white
noise machine with good recordings will be better than this one. However, when it
comes to white noise and fan sounds I don't think you can really beat the
LectroFan Evo. It's just as good as the old LectroFan Evo and it has a
fantastic volume which i think is one of its strong points, and always has been.
It's always been the loudest of the white noise machines that I've tried.
Let's put this on a - that beep noise again! let's put it on pink noise and pump up the volume. You can really feel there's a lot of volume there!
Try it on a fan noise. Again, you can also turn the volume down to
have a pinpoint volume that you like. I like that it has these incremental
volume controls because not everyone wants to listen to their white noise
extremely loud or extremely quiet. It's good to be able to find the exactly
sound and volume setting that you want. So what else to talk about this one? I think
the other interesting addition is that it now has more timer features. The old
LectroFan only had 60 minutes. This one has a little button here that you can
press and it will go from 1 to 8 hours. again makes these odd beeping sounds. And
there - that's the very very subtle change in the sound. Where the beep goes down
rather than up, it tells you that you've reached the maximum of 8 hours. So
personally, I think it would be nice if it had a light to tell you, or some kind
of screen to tell you what hour setting you have it on. But otherwise you've just got to
listen out to those subtle beeps. Is it a beep or is it a boop? Which I
think if you're not really paying attention you're going to probably end up
going through 2 or 3 times, like I did the first time I tried it. And other than
that, the power - as you can see - has a cable here and it's powered with a
AC adapter with a USB cable. The good thing about that is that you can either plug
it into the mains or you can plug it into a PC or any USB hub. And I think
that's quite useful to have that option. One thing that I think they
didn't really get right in changing to this machine is the lack of an
internal battery. I don't know whether they've done that to save on space
or they can have all the components and the high fidelity speaker. But it would
have been nice if it had had a rechargeable battery. I know Avantek
recently came out with a new model. And it also had a new headphone jack, it
also had new sounds. But it also had an internal rechargeable battery, which I
think for me perhaps puts it just slightly ahead of the LectroFan Evo
in terms of usability. However, this is review of the LectroFan Evo. And as I
said before, what I really like about it is the variety of sounds that it offers,
and the volume control. If you're looking for loud white noise, you're not going to
find a better one than the LectroFan Evo. The design is slightly changed as
well - just a little point about that. It used to be a completely horizontal,
upward facing speaker, and now it's on this angle. I quite like it. It comes in
different colors as well - you've got white, grey, black. I've gone for
charcoal here, so again there's enough variety there to cater to different
tastes. So, all in all, I think this is a fantastic white noise machine. I always
loved the LectroFan and the LectroFan Evo is just a bit of an upgrade, with
some extra plus points to it which I think are definitely worth going for. So if
you're going to choose one of the LectroFans, I would definitely go
with this one rather than the old LectroFan. And that's it. Thanks for
watching.