The first Dyson personal purifying fan

Rating:

4% of 100

Reviewed on 20/9/2021

Great if you stick to its 'personal' small space ticket. Some issues when you push it further.

Matt

Pros: - Constant noise: No buffeting and no squeaky pivoting and all the other annoying sounds you can get with a pedestal fan - Perfect, relaxing white noise at the lower ...
Read More settings - Filtering seems to be top notch, air coming out of it is very very fresh. Cons: - IR sensor at base makes actually using the remote a pain in pretty standard placement scenarios - Noise is a bit intense / high pitch at higher settings - Mild engine whine at middle settings Summary: Perfect for what its designed to do: Cool a person in very close proximity with a very mild relaxing noise, and filter a quite small space like a small bedroom / study with top notch filter tech. Try to push it harder and there are some concerns. The one thing that really gets me about this fan is the design - because that is meant to be what Dyson are all about. The IR sensor for the remote seems to be right on the base of the device, which means its easily blocked by say, a chair in front of the side table it is sitting on. Making the remote almost pointless. Very weird they wouldn't have put the sensor (and display for that matter) higher up. On the plus side: It gives a nice focused constant flow of air, there is no buffetting to hear or feel, just a nice cool breeze. It is definitely a personal fan, as it says on the box, even at the highest setting you wouldn't want to be more than a couple of meters away from it if you want to feel a decent breeze even at full speed. But within this, it is definitely powerful enough. It is louder than a bob standard pedestal fan for the same air force. This is to be expected given its size and the fact its forcing air though a (brilliant) filter. It produces a very nice white noise, though maybe a higher pitch than you'd be used to with a regular fan. At the lower settings though the noise is perfect, very relaxing, though you'd need to have the fan fairly close to get a good cooling effect. But for a bedside table while you sleep application, I think this fan/filter is perfect! At the middle settings there is a mild engine wine sound which is audible over the air noise (at higher settings its overpowered by the air noise), which isn't ideal. It is very mild but I'm expecting perfection from Dyson. If you're primarily after a filter, it is very quiet at the lower settings down to basically silent at the lowest setting - though you would definitely want to limit filtering to a small room at these speeds.