Committed to giving you a good night’s sleep

Marpac’s high quality sound machines are crafted to endure for decades, so you can enjoy restful sleep for many years to come. Half a century after the company’s founding, Marpac’s time-tested devices are still the best on the market.

They block out sirens, crying, barking, snoring, and any other noise that interrupts your slumber. With user-friendly controls, it is easy to set yourself up for sweet dreams; the quality audio means nothing will assail your ears.

Sound machines are also perfect for productive studying, keeping conversations private, and blocking out noise from the neighbors. Models emit either the sound of rushing air, which creates soothing white noise, or your choice of realistic sounds. With a Marpac device, you’ll finally start getting some serious sleep.

A Love Story

It starts with a traveling salesman named Jim Buckwalter and his insomniac wife, Trudy. Trudy often traveled with Jim, and soon realized that she slept better in motel rooms than she did while at home.

Restful Sleep

After some head-scratching, the couple identified the soothing lull of the air conditioner unit as the cure to Trudy’s relentless tossing and turning.

Jim Loved to Tinker

So he got to work in his garage attempting to replicate the constant whirring noise of an air conditioner, with none of the “air” but all of the “sound.” He thus dubbed his invention a “sound conditioner.”

It was quite a simple device: a turntable motor and a small fan blade encased in a dog bowl, mounted atop a disc of foam-covered wood. Jim's machine created a deeply soothing sound from rushing air. This constant sound masked noises. It also helped people sleep like never before.

The Original Sound Conditioner

Word got out, and soon Jim's friends and family were asking for his sleep machines. A little company was started. And it soon turned into a bigger company.

That’s how the original Yogasleep SleepMate was born, and eventually became the current Dohm.

While the Dohm is somewhat more sophisticated than its dog-dish ancestor, its guts are fundamentally the same. And while our company has grown in size over the decades, that same find-an-answer, inventor-ish, gee-whiz attitude is still around here, as is the love that started it all.