Meanwhile, I have these fans bought 3x (2x as a gift for my brothers in the past, hot summer). The fan takes away little space and is even on the lowest level is still very strong. One may here expect no fan, the "calm and a gentle Windchen without audible noise" generated at level 1 - the Honey Will wants to blow at level 1 already properly and you can hear it too. However, I personally found the noise on the first stage is not particularly annoying. The engine runs very smoothly and thereby generates no annoying, wavy noise and cools a even on hot days still absolutely reliable. After about a year of use my own fan now makes slightly whirring sounds. In my eyes, still not a drama, but some people here are indeed somewhat more sensitive. The control of the fan was it for my own understandings more than strange. The rotary switch of the fan is operated in the order of "0-3-2-1", so the first turn (to turn on the fan) will begin immediately with the strongest stage and you have to turn by 2 more programs to the first (and my to reach opinion vernünftigfste) stage.
The resulting after one year, slight whirring and the comic switching mechanism bring the device from my side 'only' 4 of 5 stars. So far we are otherwise happy with the 3 fans. I would recommend this.