Our editorial staff evaluates products and services independently. But Top Ten Reviews may earn money when you click on links. The design of the Rabbit Air MinusA2 is versatile, as you have the option to hang it on a wall instead of leaving it on the floor. The purifier lacks an operational timer that allows you to set the machine to turn on or off at specific times throughout the day. The Rabbit Air MinusA2 has the most unique and versatile design of all the air purifiers we reviewed and incorporates nearly all the features we look for. The Rabbit Air MinusA2 is exceptionally quiet, making it easy to forget it's in the room with you. However, the design of this air purifier demands that you show it off, as you can add customized panels to the front of it that feature artwork from famous artists, including Vincent Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt and Katsushika Hokusai. In addition to this unique and artistic design, the MinusA2 is great at cleaning the air in small rooms and has a number of unique features.

MinusA2 Ultra Quiet Air Purifier (Pet Allergy) The latest brain child of Rabbit Air Purifiers, the MinusA2 leaves other air purifiers in the dust. Designed either to stand alone or be mounted on a wall, this new air purifier is a versatile and attractive addition to your home or office. While bulky, unsightly air purifiers are often hidden out of view, behind couches and inside closets, the MinusA2 is a slim, stylish model that compliments home decor while improving air quality and eliminating harmful toxins. The MinusA2 will hang as subtly as a frame on your wall, or stand alone as a chic fixture in your house. It will not interfere with your individual style and is virtually silent, automatically switching to sleep mode when a room is darkened to ensure efficiency. At a mere 7 in. in depth, the MinusA2 is incredibly versatile, so that you can move it from room to room. Long-life filters, washable pre-filter Features Pet Allergy customizable filter Covers up to 700 sq. ft.

Wall-Mountable (bracket sold separately) Five Year Limited Warranty Very Quiet (between 20.8 dBa - 45.6 dBa) Use and Care Manual You will need Adobe® Acrobat® Reader to view PDF documents. a free copy from the Adobe Web site. Customer Questions & Answers Questions with Most Answers Can you answer these questions? Where is the information on the replacement filters (cost & item number)? I only noticed that it is a HEPA filter. 1 does this air purifier get rid of smoke 1 CAN i STILL GET mILITARY DISCOUNT WHEN ORDERING ONLINE? 0 hOW EFFECTIVE IS THIS UNIT WITH CIGARETTE SMOKE?Ultra Quiet HEPA Air Purifier - Stylish, Efficient and Energy Star, Includes Wall Mount, White, Odor Remover 7 x 21.4 x 20.2 inches #203,109 in Home and Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home and Kitchen) #169 in Home & Kitchen > Heating, Cooling & Air Quality > Air Purifiers > HEPA Air PurifiersI've become a bit of an air purifier nut over the years.

Originally, I used them because I believed that they helped keep the dust down and my dirty home cleaner. Now, I've come to appreciate cleaner air quality while I suck it in all night. When you open it up and see how dirty the filters are, you have to be glad that you have one. With indoor air much more polluted in general than outdoor air, having a quiet, energy efficient air purifier in your home should be, in my opinion, an integral part of your home design plan.holmes air purifier hepa harmony tower What Is a HEPA Filter (and why should I care?)trueclean enhanced air cleaner price In the air filter world, the HEPA standard has evolved as the go-to "good enough" quality level. dynamic air cleaner 16x25

Developed originally during WWII by the Atomic Energy Commission's Manhattan Project to clean radiation out of the air, the design evolved over a number of years into an affordable, mass-produced paper filter system that could be integrated into purifiers, vacuums and other units for commercial and residential use. To qualify as HEPA by US government standards, an air filter must remove (from the air that passes through) 99.97% of particles that have a size of 0.3 µm. "HEPA: High-efficiency particulate arrestance or HEPA is a type of air filter. Filters meeting the HEPA standard have many applications, including use in medical facilities, automobiles, aircraft and homes. The filter must satisfy certain standards of efficiency such as those set by the United States Department of Energy (DOE)." via Wikipedia Here are my top picks for the year, updated from 2010. I totally believe in the super affordable fan and filter based machines, but for better filtering (particularly for odor and allergy sufferers) and quieter filtering, I would recommend spending more.

Kenmore 83394 Small Room HEPA Filter Air Purifier Spoken of highly by readers, this Sears Kenmore series, available in three sizes, is the most affordable HEPA air purifier that I'm including on the list. It features a sleek, wall hugging design, quiet operation, an EnergyStar rating and a two-filter system that covers up to 400 square feet. Honeywell 50250-S True HEPA Air Purifier, 390 sq ft I like Honeywell, and I've also had two of these purifiers for a number of years in our many roomed family house in the country. Big, not particularly quiet (great white noise, however, for sleeping babies & adults), I find the Honeywell purifiers to be simple with very good HEPA filters at a very good price for basic air filtration. This purifier is rated to clean a room up to 390 square feet (smaller than RabbitAir) and is not for continuous air cleaning as it's too loud and not an energy saver. Coway AP-1512HH Mighty Air Purifier with True HEPA and Eco Mode Rated super highly by The Sweethome, Coway is a name I hadn't heard before, but its products are given high marks for air cleaning at a very good value.

Said to be as good as machines twice the price, the Coway Mighty is a small, sleek unit that runs silently, uses very little energy and works with easily replaceable filter panels similar to a RabbitAir machine. It will efficiently clean a 325 square foot room. What Happened To Air Ionisers??? Famous just a few years ago for being slim, silent and able to clean the air without a breeze (remember how popular they were among those that needed to clear the air quickly in their parents' house?), air ionisers have faded in use because two things happened. The first was that ionisers were discovered to produce small amounts of ozone, a toxic gas, which set off a health scare and made them persona non-grata in the medical community. Secondly, and more importantly, ionisers have never proven to clean air and move it through the room as well as traditional HEPA filters. Famously, in 2003, Consumer Reports gave The Sharper Image's popular Ionic Breeze a "fail" rating, which set off a lengthy court battle.

In the end, Sharper Image lost the case when it couldn't prove any of Consumer Reports assertions to be untrue. That said, ionizers have found their way into many HEPA machines as a way of adding extra filtering power. RabbitAir BioGS 2.0 Ultra Quiet Air Purifier Designed by Guto Indio da Costa in 2014, this purifier won the Good Design Award and the RedDot Award in that year. This (and the MinusA2 Ultra Quiet Air Purifier a few products down) are me two top picks of all the machines on this list. I have them at home, and I find them to be compact, powerful and silent. Mine runs continually on low and I've had it for three years without any problems. Dyson Pure Cool Link Tower Since its inception, Dyson has always been known for breaking the mold with its innovative products. Consider this the air purifier of the future. With the corresponding app, the machine monitors the humidity, air quality and temperature of the room it's in and reacts accordingly, reporting all stats back to you via your smart phone.

It promises to remove 99.97% of allergens and pollutants as small as 0.3 microns. RabbitAir MinusA2 Ultra Quiet Air Purifier SPA-780A Black This is the more expensive of RabbitAir's offerings, and it's the one that I have had for years. The MinusA2 sits flat against any wall or piece of furniture, runs absolutely silently and comes with a choice of four different filter systems: Pet Allergy, Odors, Toxins or Germ Defense (they all seem good to me). The unit sips energy with an EnergyStar rating (as low as 7 watts), is a true HEPA filter and covers from 700-815 square feet at normal filtration levels (cleaning for an allergy sufferer reduces the square footage to about half). Alen BreatheSmart Customizable Air Purifier with HEPA-Pure Filter for Allergies and Dust , it also has a near perfect 5-star rating on Amazon. Cleaning up to 1,100 square feet, it covers more space than any other purifier on this list. Like the Dyson air filter, it automatically detects and adjusts to fluctuating air quality.

Fully customizable, buyers get the choice of 4 HEPA filters (Pure, Silver—which is best for allergy sufferers, OdorCell, FreshPlus.) Also, for the design aficionado, the BreatheSmart is offered in 15 front panel options, one of them that you can custom paint to make your walls.Founded in the '90s, Stockholm-based Blueair pairs a high standard of filtration with a sleek, Scandinavian design. With a large range of excellent machines at prices from medium to very high, Blueair features HEPA filtration, galvanized steel casing, super quiet operation, no drafts, extreme energy efficiency, and an argument for the highest Clean Air Delivery Rate (CADR) on the market, which means it will move air more quickly as it cleans. The Classic ECO10 shown here will handle 220 square feet. IQAir New Edition HealthPro Plus IQAir has a great history as it was founded by two brothers, Manfred and Klaus Hammes, who were early pioneers in the '60s developing paper-based filters to eliminate coal dust coming out of ovens in German homes.