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Ask enough sleep nerds about the best sound machines and two very different front-runners will ultimately emerge: the Dohm and the LectroFan. The Dohm, sold by a company called Yogasleep, is a ...

“The sound machine can generate any of several types of sound, from nature [or] music,” Dr. Cory Portnuff, an audiologist at the University of Colorado Health’s Hearing and Balance Clinic, says. In ...