I live in a very noisy environment and it was becoming very hard, almost impossible, for me to have a good sleep during the night. I was getting desperate because the lack of sleep was affecting my health, and luckily for me, I was able to find this new pillow while I was looking for solutions and it felt like a divine gift. It was perfect to solve my problem.
The pillow is a great purchase for people who are usually disturbed by annoying sounds while they are trying to sleep. It is super soft, comfortable, and you can even use it if you like to sleep on your side.
The presentation of the box was very elegant and of high quality.
The best:
• Comfortable and soft.
• Makes it super enjoyable to hear relaxing sounds while you are having a nap or sleeping.
• There is a special cover available that I decided to purchase along with the pillow so it doesn't get dirty. The cover is easy to wash.
• It is the best product in my opinion to protect your ears against noise when you are trying to sleep.
• The internal headphones sound OK, and you don't even feel them. Everything in the pillow is soft, like a normal pillow. With the added benefit that this one gives you sound directly to your ears so it can mask the disturbing noise from outside.
I believe the product can be even better, so I am sharing my ideas about how to improve it:
What can be improved:
• Battery capacity: the battery is officially 10 hours long. I think this is something that can be improved in future versions of the product. It would be much better if it could offer 20 or even 40 hours of battery life. 10 hours isn't that much, especially if you plan to sleep using it. You would need to recharge it every day, which means a quicker wear and tear to the battery health as time goes on. I am not sure if the battery can be easily replaced if it gets damaged or when its health gets very reduced compared to its original condition.
• Implementing active noise canceling: the pillow doesn't have this feature and I guess it would require making internal changes to the design because this feature needs a microphone to analyze the sound and then neutralize it by creating opposite sound waves. But having the option of active noise canceling would be excellent. It would also require more battery capacity.
• Make it even tighter around the user's head: if I press the pillow around my head with my hands and make it very tight, it does a much better job canceling external sound than just putting my head inside the pillow without pressing anything. I believe a way to improve this product would be to figure out a method in which the pillow can be a bit more tight around the user's head, so it can do an even better job of keeping the external sound out. Something that would gently press the pillow against the head. However, it is incredibly nice and useful just as it is right now, and I think everyone can figure out a manual way to somehow press the pillow against their head while sleeping if they need it. I usually sleep on my side, so I sometimes put a normal pillow on top of my Soli pillow and it presses it nicely against my head.
• About the buttons: I only use the central button to power it off or on, and I don't really use the other 2 buttons. But I tried them out, and sometimes it was a bit difficult to press the "+" button. This happened because the pillow is so soft that there is almost no resistance that would make the button "click" when I am pressing it. It is not a big deal though, but I guess this can also be considered a potential improvement, although the least important for sure.
I totally recommend this product, and I would even buy it again if the company decides to implement the potential improvements I shared above.
Thanks for creating this well-needed oasis for our ears!