HemingWeigh White Noise Sound Machine

I ordered 3 noisemakers to compare, and intended to let my girlfriend keep the one she liked best, return one, and I planned to take the 2nd best unit. The other 2 brands advertised as if they were supposed to be superior to the HemmingWeigh. That is not the case AT ALL. I'll explain in the next paragraphs, for those that want details. The comparison and models tested are the next to last paragraph. I got out of the hospital a few weeks ago and have been staying with an older couple, who are truly family to me. They have a HemmingWeigh in the room I am staying in right now. This thing is So much better than running a brown noise app to my Bose bluetooth speaker. My girlfriend came by to visit and see how I was. She had a migraine, and I was also borrowing a Far Infrared Heating pad from the couple that are taking care of me right now. I asked her to try to lay down on the heating pad, and that she shouldn't hear any noises in the house, because of the HemmingWeigh/noisemaker in the room. She loved both, the HemmingWeigh and the heating pad (the heating pad is by "UTK"). She had also been using the same brown noise app as I have, and for years, running wirelessly via Bluetooth to a JBL speaker. So, she was running to a very expensive (for the purpose) JBL, and I was running the app to my Bose. The plus to the HemmingWeigh is never worrying about an app stopping, looping, randomy lowering volume, losing a wireless signal nor having to run a cable across the room directly to a speaker (like I did), and it masks sounds much better than audio or digitally recorded noise. For years I have run a free program that uses "Brown Noise", which is much lower pitched and not so scratchy like "White Noise" software. I had so much money invested in that "free software", because I was running a 3.5mm line directly to a Bose bluetooth speaker, and the reason I paid to wire it to my tablet is so it wouldn't clip and lose signal as often. The app would still drop out multiple times during the night, even wired; it would just stop. Same thing with my girlfriend's app, and she was feeding the audio from an iPad Mini 2, and I use a Samsung Tab S2. The HemmingWeigh is better in every way compared to an app, better than an old fan based noisemaker my Mother kept running under my bed when I was a kid (25 years ago, same concept), and better than 2 other models I tested it against. The 2 models I tested the HemmingWeigh against, advertised as if they were superior, and they were expensive in comparison, along with sketchy reviews. One is a "WITTI DOZZI", and the other was a "PICTEK". I saw glowing reviews for the PICTEK, and it got sketchier when I asked "Does the motor hum and make noise on this device as badly as other units that use a fan & motor?". I recieved 3 responses from supposed Amazon customers, and at the most random times. I don't even get responses like that for a high end projector. The first response was around 1AM, then 4 or 5AM, and then a bit after 7AM; all in the same day, no further responses afterward. It made absolutely no sense. That has never happened to me. I figured "Well, Amazon accepts returns if something isn't functioning properly - Ill give it a shot". Against the responses I recieved about the PICTEK, it does have motor noise, my girlfriend can't stand it, and neither can I. My girlfriend said "It doesn't sound like it would last a week. It didn't sound steady, it sounded like it couldn't keep the speed constant. Sounded more whiny". I agree with her, and the thing (currently) costs approximately 40% more (40.016%, to be exact). So, it went back. Sketchy responses, higher price, unrealistic advertising, BUT much better than the "DOZI". NEXT... Next, we tried the "WITTI DOZI". It is approximately double the price of the HemmingWeigh, and it was worse than the PICTEK. Firstly, it had rust on the metal grille that sits above the fan, and it could not be wiped off... The buttons to adjust it are cheap, clunky, and inferior to to the the HemmingWeigh or the PICTEK. The DOZI had the worst sound, least adjustability of all 3 units, and again, the thing is double the price of the HemmingWeigh. Both other brands had less ratings, but somehow, better ratings. The DOZI had 5 reviews. Anyhow, the other, more expensive units are being returned. Neither of us liked them, but I'll be fair and say the PICTEK is definitely a better and much more adjustable model than the DOZI. The HemmingWeigh at my friend's home has been here for years, and it is still running. I am ordering a second one to have for myself. I let my girlfriend choose between it and the PICTEK, and both of us like the HemmingWeigh better - this old one next to me, and the brand new one (old motor vs new motor HemmingWeigh, they still easily beat the more expensive models). The next time I'm admitted to the hospital (yes, I have horrible health problems...) I should actually be able to sleep with the HemmingWeigh running, even though it often sounds like the nurses are literally having a party in the hospital while stroke patients and patients as ill as myself try to rest, all the while being expected to get better with absolutely no sleep. Hospital workers and staff, please, either be polite and only wake a patient up the 15-20 times a day you come busting up in the room to check vitals, swap fluids etc., or Please get the hospital to invest in some sort of white noise fan based machines. You can put someone on a feeding tube or TPN all day long, but no one is getting well if they're completely sleep deprived. P. S. I will be recommending the HemmingWeigh to anyone that doesn't want to be disturbed in their sleep, and am planning to get more as Christmas gifts (what better gift to give to someone than sleep which results in a better mood, better health and more energy?). I wish hospitals would test the idea of implementing these devices (any noise masking device) to keep patients from such sleep deprivation caused by the disrespect of hospital staff that are laughing at the top of their lungs at night, and sounding like a cage fight is going on in the supply rooms, plus sounding like there is a competition for who can slam a door the loudest (it's funny, but not funny at all...). Perhaps put one in every room on one floor of the hospital for 3 months and see how much faster the patients on that level are able to be discharged vs the ones that have no ability to mask the noise in the halls. Sleep can mean Everything when it comes to whether or not a sick patient recovers quickly.