What are Sound Conditioners?

Sound conditioners are devices used to mask noises and to add pleasant, soothing sounds to any environment. Used in the home to mask noises such as:

• street noise
• television and stereos
• barking dogs
• snoring
• air traffic
• noisy neighbors
• buzzing in the ears

At college, they are used to allow uninterrupted study or sleep.

At the office, sound conditioners mask noises such as:

• keyboard clicking
• light manufacturing noises
• confidential conversations

What is White Noise?

White noise is a type of noise that is produced by combining sounds of all different frequencies together. If you took all of the imaginable tones that a human can hear and combined them together, you would have white noise.

The adjective "white" is used to describe this type of noise because of the way white light works. White light is light that is made up of all of the different colors (frequencies) of light combined together (a prism or a rainbow separates white light back into its component colors). In the same way, white noise is a combination of all of the different frequencies of sound. You can think of white noise as 20,000 tones all playing at the same time.

Because white noise contains all frequencies, it is frequently used to mask other sounds. If you are in a hotel and voices from the room next-door are leaking into your room, you might turn on a fan to drown out the voices. The fan produces a good approximation of white noise. Why does that work? Why does white noise drown out voices?

Here is one way to think about it. Let's say two people are talking at the same time. Your brain can normally "pick out" one of the two voices and actually listen to it and understand it. If three people are talking simultaneously, your brain can probably still pick out one voice. However, if 1,000 people are talking simultaneously, there is no way that your brain can pick out one voice. It turns out that 1,000 people talking together sounds a lot like white noise. So when you turn on a fan to create white noise, you are essentially creating a source of 1,000 voices. The voice next-door makes it 1,001 voices, and your brain can't pick it out any more.

Our products produce the sounds of nature and surround you with an environment of "conditioned" sound. This sound is continuous and pleasant, and works like a balm to soothe and relax.

Our sound conditioners are not entertainment systems, toys or gimmicks. They are recommended by doctors for their patients, by mothers for their children, by professional people for their offices, by restless sleepers and — most enthusiastically — by current users throughout the world.