Can anyone recommend a good white noise machine?

If you have a smartphone- there are lots of apps for that.

Also, just use your computer. Go to youtube and search for 'white noise'. Here's one I use when I travel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KaOrSuWZeM

I just use a humidifier for same effect.

Google how to have youtube play on repeat.

I'd love to hear some recommendations too. The computer is in the other room so YouTube won't work for me.

Rush Limbaugh.

I love the SleepMate. It's the kind often used in doctors' offices. Has two levels and does the job well. I do NOT, NOT, NOT recommend you get one of the brands that uses recorded sounds (like falling water, rain, etc) because the recordings are all on continuous loops and if you are a sound freak like me you will begin to pick up faint beeps, blips and other noises as the recording cycles through. Talk about insomnia-inducing. We had to toss our Brookstone because of this irritating problem.

The SleepMate is great because it uses a machine to generate the noise, not a recording. It creates a nice whooshing sound.

The tv, turned on a news channel. CNN is good.The constant chattering at a low volume puts anyone to sleep.

I did a LOT of research on this. The best one is the Ecotones Sound Sleep Machine. It has a very realistic natural sound, and adaptive response - so it listens and gets a little louder when it hears a sound, so it drowns it out. I use it every night - love it...
http://www.amazon.com/Ecotones-Sound-Sleep-Machine-ASM1002/dp/B002SMJQT4

Is this to tune out city noise, or cows and chickens up in C0lumbia C0unty?

I recommend trUth.

Air purifier machine.

I use the AC (on fan) or my air purifier. When I buy either one the salesperson always tells how quiet various models for and is confused when I tell him/her that I WANT a loud one.

http://www.amazon.com/Marpac-Dohm-DS-Speed-Sound-Conditioner/dp/B000KUHFGM/ref=sr_1_1?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1364872557&sr=1-1&keywords=sleepmate+white+noise+machine

I own 3 of them. Convenient for traveling as well.

Living by the Vanderveer Houses in Crooklyn you can enjoy the gunshots , screams and sanitation trucks all night. Need a application ?

Need a edgication?

Again with the Flatbush Gardens?!? The only "white noise" you'll hear there are the screams of the idiot transplants featured in that ridiculous commercial, after their 1st mugging experience

@ Walrus ... now what could be WHITER THAN THAT ?? : )

You vant vhite noise?!? Ah'll give ya some vhite noise! ACCHH! It won't put you to sleep directly - it'll just make you want to put yourself out of your misery! OY! ENJOY!

See vhat you made me do? I got so noivice - I forgot to post the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at8hZpXyykM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Nothing! ;)

Interesting how the trollalanhart posts a comment about me, in response to to the OP question.

I have not been commenting on this discussion thread, yet the trollalanhart can't help himself from posting
another of his idiodic comments referring to me.
Along with his upper-case "U" included.

What a great retirement that trollalanhart is having in NYC., with nothing better to do with his life than to post his moronic comments, at 11:30 pm on a Monday night.

His noise is that of a retiree loser with nothing better to do but to attempt to spread his misery.

@ Walrus ... nice video. LOL

We used uwsmom's Marpacs one year for a noisy summer share.

I like this model too: http://www.marpac.com/Marpac-Marsona-TSCI-330/dp/B000X2FSA2

Purgie -- there's no "h" sound in "yoomid".

No shvet - it's not the yeat; it's the yumidity!

I get TRUE WHITE NOISE !! I live 26 floors above a BLARNEY STONE in Midtown. Trust me i hear those idiots coming out at night.

Another vote for the SleepMate. I also have the WhiteNoise app from TMSoft, which I use for travel, but it's not as good as the machine.

Sonet...use it everynight for over a year...cant sleep without it...

http://sonetpersonalwhitenoisemachine.blogspot.com/

We use Dohm and have been very happy with it.

I have soundsleep. It's a 30 min loop which makes your brain not be able to figure out the pattern which mine would with others and actually keep me awake. Expensive but worth it and it will adjust to the rice rockets burning down your street. RIDE OR DIE LATIN KINGS!
http://www.walmart.com/ip/16405852?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227000000000&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=&wl3=21486607510&wl4=&wl5=pla&veh=sem

Just put a radio on between stations for the static sound, and control the volume to whatever level you like!

My wife is addicted to white noise. After trying everything, the sleepmate wins. Make sure to get the two speed version.

I've been a houseguest at the same South Fork house, third from the ocean, every few years for decades. I found the sound of the waves breaking so soothing that I bought a noise machine, set it on surf, and used it at my apartment for years afterwards.

Then I visited the East End house again, but couldn't sleep at all. The dunes had built up on the beach, and between the houses, so that I could no longer here the roar of the ocean while abed. And it didn't occur to me to bring my noise maker. Never again.

Tread carefully.

Wouldn't having sex be considered "WHITE NOISE?" Gotta be some noise coming out of there.

Indeed it would; however, please bear in mind that - ahem - "pink" noise is a factor as well.

In any event, pink or white - involve passing through a black hole, which serves to... uh... "dampen" the sound somewhat.

Sometimes, though - especially on an otherwise dead quiet night - the sex sounds can be anything BUT pink or white.

A few years back, while spending a weekend at my Mom in Brooklyn, I was awakened on a summer night to sounds I can only describe as a water buffalo experiencing an octuplet breach birth. What cracked me up is that it was our very prim, proper & ultra orthodox next door neighbor! I couldn't look her in the eye the next day. Hysterical!