Hi I'm Ethan Green from nosleeplessnights.com, and in this video
I'm going to unbox, test, and review the Dreamegg D11
white noise machine. Now I think this is one which has been
geared specifically towards the parents of small children because it has a night
light. And also, three of the 11 sounds are
lullabies and a heartbeat sound. So perhaps it's one that adults on their
own won't make the full use of. However, I could be wrong; the
manufacturer does say that this is one that adults will enjoy as well. So I'm
going to put that to the test and see whether this is a
viable white noise machine for anybody or whether it's really going to be the
parents of small children that appreciate it most.
So, without further ado, let's pop over to the table, unbox it, have a listen to the
sounds, and check out the nightlight. Okay so let's unbox the Dreamegg and
see what we've got inside. You might notice a change in my audio and
that's because I've moved my microphone closer to the box -
closer to the device. Okay, move that out of the way. So inside, the
white noise machine itself, which I can immediately see is a lot smaller than
previous Dreameggs. Here is the D3 for example which is much,
much bigger. so it will be interesting to see what
else it has in there in terms of features that makes up for
that small size. So we have on the edge here the cord, which
I believe has been included so that you can hang it in
children's rooms. You can see here the bit where I'm imagining the nightlight
is going to come from. So even though this is rechargeable, I
very much doubt it's got battery. oh, I'm wrong, it does have battery. And
let me see if I can turn the volume down. there you go I wasn't expecting that at
all. But there you go ,that's nice of them. So you can immediately see the night
light is already on. And I know from previous videos when I try to show
the night light in the daytime, when I've got my filming lights as well, it kind of
doesn't really show it. So a bit later I will - there you go, if I
turn it towards the camera, that's a bit nicer.
But I'll also film it later on in the bedroom and then cut it back in so you
can see it. So here's a video that future me took of
the nightlight in the bedroom.
Okay, and back to the device. So let's have a look at the charging cable
and see what you've got. Immediately I can see that there's no power adapter, so
you're going to need your own USB socket, which
isn't too difficult to come by nowadays. So I'm going to put that out of the way.
It's quite small as a charging cable, but to be fair I have seen smaller ones such
as the Lectrofan Micro 2. But it should be absolutely fine. Okay so
back to the device, I'm wondering if I can turn the light off - probably this
light button. There we go, it's just gonna make my
filming a little bit easier. In fact, that looks like it's
dimmed it. Okay so back to this, and let's turn off the volume for a second
and I'm just going to look and see if there are instructions,
which didn't seem to pop out of the box. I know, here we go I just didn't
open the box very effectively. Okay, so what have we got here - a VIP invitation,
probably to some club or bonus scheme or whatever. I'm not
going to bother with that. Here we've got some social media stuff
and a warranty card. Oh that's interesting, there's an
extended six month warranty for you. Oh no, hang on, "extend six months warranty
free:. Does that mean that it already includes it or you need to do
something? Additional six months warranty. Okay so
it looks like you need to do something, which wouldn't surprise me if you need
to sign up to some things or maybe give a review and then you get a longer
warranty. who knows? Okay, so, the manual. I know from
previous videos that people sometimes appreciate it when their
device didn't come with a manual or they lose it
that I go through the manual and just open it up on each page so
people can see. So there's the warranty. It comes with a 365 day replacement
warranty. That's really good. And 60 days money-back guarantee, which is also good.
And the additional six-month warranty, you just need to register it and
email them. So that's actually a really good warranty for a white noise machine.
Okay, some safety information. I'm not going to bother with that for now.
The package contents - looks like i had all of that. Technical information,
this is quite interesting to see if they've got speaker specs.
Three watts. Okay so it's louder than some of the other white noise machines
that I've looked at, definitely, so it's going to be
interesting to test out. Here we go the, let me see: white noise,
nature sound, fan sound, timer, and timer indicator,
power button, volume up, volume down, light control, and charging port. There's quite
a lot of buttons for this small device, and a child lock button. And let's have a
look at that now. There we go, okay so that's good: if
you don't want your kids picking it up and changing the settings in the night
then you can lock it, assuming they don't work out how to change
the lock. It's not exactly the most difficult child proof lock I've ever
seen. I guess it depends how old they are. Okay so in terms of the buttons, we've
got buttons on that side, buttons on that side, which is great because
quite often these days you see white noise machines that just have a limited
number of buttons and you have to push them for some settings or hold them for
other settings and that just really irritates me.
So i'm glad to see that there's more buttons on this device.
Let's go back to them, go through the instructions again a bit more.
Get started. Power on. That's pretty straightforward, just a long hold on that
one. Charge it - I don't need to do that because
they've kindly already charged it. It says here it generally takes around one and
a half hours to get it fully charged, which is relatively quick, and that's
quite good. So how long does it last for? It doesn't
say. Normally I find that these white noise machines,
if you charge it up and you leave it on all night you'll definitely get the
whole night, sometimes into the next night as well.
High voltage protection. Pick a sound. So, white noise,
nine nature sounds, one fan sound, so that's 11 in total.
So let's just have a look and see what we've got. We've got the ocean, brook,
lullaby, music box, shushing, vacuum cleaner, fetal tone, fair sound, and
cricket sound. You'll hear an indicator when you press
the button nine times. Okay so that's good, I like the fact that they tell you
when you've reached the end of the list. And i'm just looking through there and
it looks like there's more than three, which is what I said earlier, sounds that
are dedicated towards children. Because I imagine the lullaby, music box, shushing,
vacuum cleaner, and fetal tone are all designed for children. So that's 5 out of
11. So that immediately makes me think that
this is not really going to be a white noise machine for adults.
But yeah, you might disagree with me. So, set the timer, toggle through the time
button, 30 60 90 minutes. That's good, it's got
three different timer settings and you can run it continuously.
Volume adjustment, short press or long press to turn
up the volume. And volume down, same again. Night light - short press and makes it
into steady mode, short press the second time
into breathing mode. Oh that's interesting. Third time and the night
light turns off. And brightness level adjustment.
When it's in steady mode hold and press the night light button and it will
circulate between bright and dim. I actually tested the different night
light settings after the unboxing. Here's a video that I took
afterwards. and I really like the fact that you can adjust the dimness
and the brightness when it's on steady mode. I wasn't too impressed with the
breathing mode though. I think it's a very original idea, but I
couldn't really imagine a situation where
I would choose it over a constant brightness. Child lock,
memory. Remembers the last setting - that's really good, I like that.
Something I know lots of people appreciate as well. Low battery warning.
Troubleshooting. Okay, so I apologize if that was a little
bit boring for you, but I know some people really appreciate it,
just being able to listen to all the different - well, see rather - all the
different instructions. Sorry, my brain is already thinking about the next bit
which is where we're going to listen to the sounds! So let's turn it on again. I'm
going to try and not talk too much because I know people
sometimes criticize me for talking over the sounds, and let's go through them. So,
here we go.
Okay, I'm trying to turn the volume up.
Is that even the volume button? Nothing seems to be happening there.
Why is it not turning up?
I was pressing the wrong button, that's
why!
Okay so let's listen to the fan sound.
that's really loud!
And the white noise.
Okay I'm just going to turn it off for a second and comment on the fan and the
white noise. They're both really loud. And actually, I really like the fact that
since they only have one white noise, they've chosen a very deep white noise,
which is great. Sometimes it's the normal high frequency white
noise which can be a little bit uh, a little bit intense for some people.
So I like the fact they've got a deeper one.
Okay so let's have a listen to the nature sounds and I'm going to stop
talking, literally, and just play through all of
them.
(white noise machine plays a shushing sound)
(white noise machine plays sounds)
Okay, so I'm going to turn the volume down again and just talk about
those sounds. So we had ocean and brook which I liked. I think they were quite
nice. lullaby, music box, the shushing, and
vacuum cleaner, and fetal tone - definitely ones for kids. I'll let you
decide if you're an adult watching this and you've got your own kids what you
thought about those. The fair sound, yeah ,again, I can see that that'd be
quite a nice one. And the cricket sound, again quite a realistic one, I quite like
that one. So overall I have to say that if I was buying this for myself...
Just push that out of the way, I never seem to manage to push the
pieces of paper off screen! Um, sorry. If I was
buying this for myself as an adult, I'm not sure that I would choose this
over a white noise machine which is dedicated towards adults
more than small children. But if you're a parent I think this is actually a really
good option. I think it's good that it's got all
of those nature sounds, the two melodies and the nightlight. Another thing that's
good for parents then is the timers. So here you can see on the side that
there's a little light with 30, 60, or 90 and just press this button presumably.
There you go, and that's going to tell you if it's 30, 60, 90,
and that will be continuous I imagine. So again, I think that overall this is
actually a pretty good white noise machine from what I can tell,
for kids anyway. I'm just wondering what that little
thing there does, it didn't say anything in the instructions.
So let's have again a comparison to the D3. Now, as you can see the D3 is much bigger.
But is it louder? That's something that I'm really keen to
find out. So I'm going to turn this one back up again.
I'm going to put it on a white noise setting.
where is it - white noise.
Okay, 85 decibels. That's very loud actually for a white noise machine.
Let's see the D3.
Okay, so the D3 actually is a little bit louder, but not
too much considering how big it is. Okay, so it's one thing to get the white noise
machine out of the box and have a listen to it and give you my
first thoughts, but another thing entirely to spend a week using it,
and that's exactly what I'm going to do. So I'm going to use it every night for a
week and listen to the sounds, try and work out how long the loops are, and
how good the features really are when you use them night after night.
Okay, so I've now had a chance to use it for a little bit longer and a lot of my
first impressions I think were completely
right, which I'm very happy to be able to report!
But first of all, let's talk about the sounds. Something that I
was really interested in is the looping because I know that that's something
that's really important to people. I managed to time three of them, some
of them it's kind of impossible to time because it just repeats and
doesn't have a break or a click, which is a good thing I guess. But the
two melodies, they last for a minute and a half - just under a minute and a half
one of them. And that's actually a really good time. I
think if you're a parent that's ever been in a child's bedroom singing
twinkle twinkle little star to your best ability then you know that
it repeats, and it repeats, and it repeats. So a minute and a half of
a melody is pretty good I think. Now, one thing that I will definitely
criticize this machine about is the 'fair' sound. Now, this is one where
when I was listening to it, I couldn't work out the accents at first or the
language or, you know, where the noise is coming from.
But every 30 seconds - it's on a 30 second loop -
someone says 'no puede' which basically in Spanish means 'he'
or 'she' or 'it can't'. And I think, for me, that's kind of a negative subliminal
message. So if your kids understand Spanish, I
wouldn't play them that all night long, because every 30 seconds
someone that they don't know is gonna say 'it can't' or 'he or she can't', which is,
you know, just a bit negative. So I'm a bit weirded
out by that one I have to say! Now, as for the other nature sounds, I
thought they're actually pretty good. Um, it's a shame that there's no rain. I
know that that's a really popular one. I think just a
standard rain sound would have been good. So I don't know why they didn't include
that; maybe a lack of space because of the
internal battery and the light. Now, talking about those two things. Those
are two of the things I think this machine has most going for it.
It's great that it has that rechargeable internal battery, and a little rope means
that you can hang it where you like. And it's just really convenient, so you don't
need to keep it plugged in. And the light I think is fantastic.
Compared to some of the other night lights that I've seen, it's actually a
really good one. I like the fact that you can change the brightness, and it has
different settings, and it has a nice warm glow as well. So
for me, those are really two of the strong points about this machine,
along with the fact that even though you're not supposed to play white noise
loudly to kids, if you're an adult wanting to play it
to block out or mask external noise it's actually really good.
So overall, I think that it's actually a pretty good device. It's not one that I
would perhaps lean towards if I was an adult -
um, well I am an adult! - if I was an adult looking to buy one for myself.
But for children, um yeah, definitely. Just, um, don't play them the fair one
if they understand spanish! So there you go, thanks for watching. I hope that you
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