A:AnswerYou can choose several sounds for free. I do believe that I saw ones that you could purchase as well but you can get quite a few really different sounds and meditative songs and so forth for free you can download a certain amount and you can remove ones to add new ones.
A:AnswerBose Sleepbuds™ are designed to work as a sleep solution, so they don’t function like regular headphones. They do not stream music, audiobooks, or podcasts. Instead, they play specially curated relaxation content to help the user fall asleep and masking sounds to keep noises from disturbing sleep.
A:AnswerAlthough Bose pioneered noise cancelling technology, we found that masking is better for addressing noises that disturb sleep.
Noise cancelling technology continuously measures, compares and reacts to outside noise, then cancels it with the opposite signal. In Bose Acoustic Noise Cancelling™ products, noise cancellation is combined with passive blocking to achieve a good reduction of sound at all frequencies. However, no combination of passive and active technologies for reducing the sound entering a user’s ear can make unwanted noises completely inaudible.
Masking, on the other hand, introduces a soothing, desirable sound to help the brain ignore the disturbance. Masking works because of the way different sounds combine in our inner ears; if they have the right match of frequencies and the masking sound is just enough louder than the disturbing sound, the inner ear and brain cannot detect the disturbing sound. Cancellation creates quiet in our ear canals; masking—in the right conditions—creates quiet in our minds.
A:AnswerNo, these are not noise canceling but noise masking. Does not have a noise reduction rating. You can still hear alarms outside of your sleep buds or use the smart phone ringing function and has a great wake up alarm function too.
A:AnswerMy next-door neighbors can get pretty noisy too. However, these do a great job of drowning them out at night. Not only do these create a kind of seal around your ear to make it harder for external noise to get in, but you can control the volume of the noise from the app comparable to your cellphone volume. So imagine how loud your phone can go when you have earphones in. The seal makes that even louder. If your cellphone can reach a decent volume level, then these should be able to clock out your neighbors.
