Vornado 533DC Energy Smart Small Air Circulator Fan with Variable Speed Control, White

A powerful, quiet, energy-efficient fan that does not take up a lot of space and has a dial to control the speeds exactly the way you like it!

I've used Vornado fans for years and have always been happy with them. These days, the less expensive versions only have lo-med-hi fan speeds. I want more control than the cheaper ones provide, so I opted for the 533C Vornado and I am very happy with it. It's super quiet and can move lots of air or just a little. In addition to circulating cooling air to save A/C expense, I use it to provide some "white noise" to mask nighttime traffic and animal sounds. I liked it so much I bought a second one.

It’s powerful, compact, quiet and works like advertised.

Best fans on the market. Love the DC option, though I have their AC option as well. The fan is super quiet in comparison to other and moves a great deal of air. They also last years over other brands. Have these throughout my home and they help keep cooling costs on balance.

I bought a variable speed Vornado 180 desk fan in 2000, and I ran it for 18 years, day and night, and I loved this fan. But Vornado had not made another small variable fan since then. And my 2000 model was having issues starting up. Even with regular cleaning and oiling. I finally seen this fan and bought it as used like new from Amazon Warehouse. First off, I was HIGHLY disappointed when I got the fan from Amazon Warehouse, the thing was covered with a red dust and it was thick. Tells me it was returned from the southern US, and used heavily for a month before being returned. USED LIKE NEW MEANS IT SHOULD BE CLEAN AND LIKE NEW. Amazon dropped the ball on this one. And of course I will never get a sorry for the poor condition. Took me 25 min to take it apart and clean it from top to bottom. As far as the fan, I love the fact it is variable and I can adjust it to my setting. It does push out the air on high just like you expect from Vornado. But when you have it on a lower setting, I am not feeling any air flow. I have to go up to at least 25% before I start to feel a lite air flow. Anything above the 25%, it works as my old one did. I dont know if this is just the new design or something may not be right with it. Overall I have had good luck over the years with Vornado, I have multiple fans and different sizes, Vornado Heaters and even the humidifiers.

I love this fan! Just what the noise needer in me was looking for. I love the variable speed. I think the highest dbs on it are actually higher than Vornado says but that's fine. The variable speed makes picking what's right for me easy. The tilt on it is nice too. Not limited to just a couple of angles like my last fan. I'm definitely a Vornado Fan!

Finally, a fan that is suitable for keeping you cool at your desk that is *silent* at the lowest speed. The continuous speed control lets you set the speed to anything you want. At the lowest setting it's really slow but still moving air, and you can't hear it at all. The 9 inch size is big enough to be efficient at moving air at low fan speeds, and small enough to fit on or near your desk. If you set it within a few feet of you, you don't need to set the speed high enough to be noisy. Of course, as you increase the speed, the fan makes more airflow and you can hear some air turbulence, proportional to the speed setting. At the highest setting it blows a LOT of air and it's pretty loud, but that's the sound of moving air. At the halfway mark, it's already blowing a lot of air, and quieter than other fans I've tried. The DC motor itself doesn't make any noise, as far as I can tell. And - it doesn't smell at all. In my house we are very sensitive to the smell of plastics and electronics, and we can't smell this one.

I needed a fan to just silently, gently circulate some air indoors and not create a draft. It costs more than 3-speed fans on the market, but it is worth the money. I’m very glad I purchased it.

I absolutely love this fan. I bought it a year ago to replace my tower fan and it's still going strong. It feels very well made, solid and thoughtfully designed. I use it in my bedroom mainly - I open the skylight and put this in the window facing outward on full speed with the door closed before bed and it helps clear out the hot air from the day. Then I place it so it is directed towards me in my bed while I am sleeping. It is very quiet on the low/medium settings, but like any fan it is quite loud when on full blast. I wouldn't sit in it full blast though as it is too powerful. It seems to move more than just the stream of air in front of it, which is the design. I move it downstairs while I'm working on hot days and I love how portable it is and that I can set it to the perfect speed so it isn't annoying at all - (it has a continuous speed setting, without set levels so you can fine tune). If i need any more fans i wouldn't hesitate to spend on this one again. definitely worth the cost.

Very satisfied with my purchase. I use this fan to cool my bedroom on hot nights by placing it in front of an open window. This fan is extremely quiet at low speed and very powerful at max, it cools the room in minutes, whereas my old fan would barely make a difference.

I was looking for a quiet, powerful fan for my bedroom and this does the trick. The most air flow is in the direct stream of the fan, but it does seem to move the air around it. It is near silent until you get to about the halfway mark on the dial--as I am not a fan of fan noise, I don't ever turn it up past the halfway mark, but it still moves a lot of air at halfway.

C'est le deuxième ventilateur/circulateur Vornado que j'achète. J'avais sous-estimé l'utilité au quotidien d'un ventilateur aussi efficace et silencieux (à petites vitesses). Il y a moyen avec ça de dormir paisiblement même certaines nuits où une air climatisée aurait été, sans cela, nécessaire. C'est cher? Oui, mais pas pour ce que ça vaut.

I can kinda fine-tune things, but even putting light pressure on the knob without rotating it randomly causes the speed to start pulsing back and forth. No idea what speed it'll actually be until I let go of the knob. Even when I leave it on a certain setting, the thing sounds like its speed is constantly adjusting by itself within like a 2.5% range of what I set. It's pretty minor, but I don't recall having this issue with cheaper AC fans. I also probably should've picked a fan with half the maximum RPM, as I find anything above around 30% gets annoying after a while. Max on this thing is pretty insane, so I'd say that's probably a positive for those that want it. In my case, it just cuts my adjustment range by a huge amount. I basically gained the ability to control noise levels more precisely in and lost consistency when it comes to RPM. I should mention that, yes, I am pretty picky.