
Coway - Airmega 300S
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Last updated: Dec 15, 2025 Scoring
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"It’s is SO MUCH more quiet than the s7 it ramped up the suction power from 4000 to 19000 yet I can let it clean my office room while being in a call now."
"Extremely quiet compared to our last one to the point where we can have it running while my partner is in work meetings (besides emptying water and dust bin, but that is 10 seconds of loud x 2)."
"pads that lift on carpet so you can run it while the baby naps"
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"it ’s great for large open spaces"
"I love the Coway Airmega! I run it all day in the living room."
"Coway is for the main living room/kitchen"
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"They do a good job of removing smoke from the room."
"The thing I noticed most and love about is that I no longer have the smell of my upstairs neighbor cooking wafting in."
"The sensors are amazing. ... Yes whenever I cook or smoke they instantly kick on and work really well."
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"never deflates"
"Also pitched it on bare rock using rocks to hold the stakes on a decently breezy night and it was pretty bombproof."
"the nearly 8 yr old tent is still going strong (handed down to my sister)"
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"We’ve also had terrible Smokey days from the Canadian wildfires in my area and when I last replaced my filter, it was almost black so it was working hard!"
"this thing has been amazing!!! ... I have two kids with seasonal allergies and this thing has been amazing!!!"
"Prior to the air purifiers the kids n wife would always have allergies n congestion/cough for what seemed like year round. ... My wife would have to pop Benadryl till it knocked her out. ... Slowly I started putting the air purifiers in each room, vacuuming the pre filter every time we vacuum the floors and they’ve gotten so much better since then. ... It’s been several years at this point. ... They still have the allergy fits every once n a while but it’s a lot less frequent."
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"I can't get my q7 max to connect to my phone anymore. ... It's so frustrating."
"I have to use google assistant to schedule run times. If I use the app, it runs whenever it wants ... That’s exactly what’s happening with mine."
"And right after 1 year, the WiFi dropped all of a sudden. And I can’t get it to connect to my network. Tried everything."
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"the medify one sounds horrible- it has a weird high pitch and i can’t stand it even on the very lowest setting. ... i actually sent it back and they replaced it and the second one sounds the same."
"The only smaller air purifier I have is the $200 Conway in my kitchen. Its like a jet engine when on high speed. That's OK when I've burnt something. But there is no way people are running it at that noise level in general use."
"And it’s noisy as hell when I kick it up a notch."
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"All of the conventional options recommended won’t cut it if you’re being serious. ... I have a few coway airmegas and blueairs and they don’t do much for real VOCs/smoke. ... My airmega has like 1lb of carbon, I’d recommend an allerair- I’ve got two airmedic 6 pro and the difference is remarkable. I think they have 25+ lbs of carbon."
"I bought it to reduce VOCs, however according to my sensor it loses effectiveness in under a month, then you are on the hook for a new $300 filter. ... A replacement filter lasted a similar amount of time for VOC effectiveness."
"So I purchased Austin Air Healthmate+ HM450 believing the higher carbon content in its filters will be more effective but after I tested it today it is also not making much of a difference. ... Austin Air HM450 has 15 lbs of activated carbon. Is that also not enough to make a dent? ... There’s no wildfire smoke currently. But my Voc is at around 225ppb. And no matter for how long I run the purifier, it stays at that level."
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"I literally just bought the Airmega 350 on Amazon and immediately regretted since I can't find the replacement filters for sale anywhere. ... Coway finally responded but wasn't helpful. They said they don't know when the filters for the 350 will be released."
"450 is round. New design. Not as good but more trendy. ... Higher claimed CADR. It is round so that number will go down rapidly. ... The VERY SHORT version, although ... there's a sticky ... is that round units are not inferior due to their shape. They're inferior because ALMOST WITHOUT EXCEPTION they have: * No removable pre-filter * Minimal Carbon, placed after the main filter * Deformable main filter * Smaller fans which have to spin faster to move more air therefore have a shorter lifespan * Shorter filter life leading to more costly replacement * Questionable filter efficiency, since it's difficult to manufacture a deformable HEPA filter. Levoit in particular claimed their filters were HEPA but they weren't at the time. They might be now, since they've started shipping them reinforced. * Instructions to VACUUM YOUR FILTERS, which pretty much means they're not HEPA. ... The airmega round units are, unfortunately, no exception."
"filter replacements can get pricey though ... filters are WAY overpriced considering you can get the machine with 2 filters for $120.."
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"That thing don't do shit in a living room."
"Your living room is a bit trickier if it's about 3x size of your bedroom (living room: 576 sq. ft.). Minimum CADRs here should be 384 CFM, but should probably be at least 400 CFM - 500 CFM for dust storms. Unfortunately there's no one Coway model to fit the bill. Both the Coway Airmega 300S and Airmega 400S have lower CADRs. ... In this case, you need two purifiers in the living room potentially (mix or match the models mentioned above)."
"Sólo sirven para estancias pequeñas o medianas, no para toda una vivienda."
I suggest Coway TrueHEPA ones. Less bells and whistles. More good performance.
r/AirPurifiers • Best air purifier for a chemo patient out of these ? UK ->Buy the Coway air mega it usually goes on sale pretty often. 10/10
r/CleaningTips • Air Purifier sucking dust in my room ->If I’d known about Austin Air when I bought my Coway Air Mega and Blue Air, I would’ve definitely picked Austin Air and I may still get one. It’s pricey, but so are Coway and Blue Air when you add up the cumulative price of filters. And, I find I need filter replacements much more often than recommended further increasing the cost.
r/BuyItForLife • Home air purifier. Especially those good for people with allergies ->All of the conventional options recommended won’t cut it if you’re being serious. I have a few coway airmegas and blueairs and they don’t do much for real VOCs/smoke. You need a lot of carbon for that. My airmega has like 1lb of carbon, I’d recommend an allerair- I’ve got two airmedic 6 pro and the difference is remarkable. I think they have 25+ lbs of carbon. Very simple design, no bells and whistles, but very effective.
r/AirQuality • The Best Air Purifiers? Recommendations? ->Coway airmega it's excellent. I have mine going 24 hours a day and it senses everything. It also filters the tiniest particles.
r/AirPurifiers • Air purifier recommendations? ->The airmega. You can buy filters specifically for dust. There's 3 different types of filters i believe you can buy, the original and two more alternatives
r/AirPurifiers • Air purifier recommendations? ->I got a Coway Airmega because it was highly reviewed on the Wirecutter website after my previous Levoit broke after only a couple years and wasn’t fixable (circuit board inside was fried).
r/parrots • Any recommendations for air purifiers? Ignore the mess, I’m currently in the middle of a deep clean in my room. ->1) Recirculating air purifiers don't need to be medical grade. CADR (Clean Air Delivery Rate) matters more. Example: An EPA E12 air purifier vs a HEPA H13 (True HEPA / medical grade filter) air purifier having the same CADR -> The EPA E12 is better. True HEPA is way too air restrictive and CADR already takes the filter efficiency into the equation which is why CADR > filter efficiency alone as it also accounts for the airflow within the filter. It doesn't mean that True HEPA is bad. It's just gonna usually be more noisy than an E12 for the same performance. More info on this here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/AirPurifiers/comments/1hne7sy/stop\_buying\_true\_hepa\_hepa\_h13\_air\_purifiers/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/AirPurifiers/comments/1hne7sy/stop_buying_true_hepa_hepa_h13_air_purifiers/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) 2) Air purifiers are better used in specific rooms. If you have 3 rooms then u need 3 air purifiers, one for each room. I need to know the room size in sqm/sqft and also if u have more than the normal 8ft/2.4-2.5m ceiling height. 3) You should buy a bigger air purifier than you need. The reason is since your family member has a health issue you 100% need the purifier to have AT LEAST the 4.8 ACH (Air Change per Hour), and since you might not want the air purifier to work at max speed all the time, you need to go at least 50% more if not double the power that you need. I generally recommend 50% more than what people need and let it run on low speed but in your case i recommend 2x more than what you need and run it on at least medium speed. 4) Good products that I recommend are either Philips PureProtect Series (3200 / pro 4200) or Coway Airmega 300/300s/400/400s. 5) Not related to air purifiers but look into fasting. Prolonged water fasting for at least 3 days, than refeeding with carnivore diet. Also the stem cell protection that a 3 days fast gives you on doing chemotherapy. There is more to it but here is a starter video : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzmacu2TgFg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzmacu2TgFg) Cancer works by feeding on the same feeding system as your body which is carbohydrates that you eat. If you switch off a carb rich diet and go carnivore diet you won't have any more external carbs (you ll feel like crap because of low glycogen stores but so will the cancer) so it will slow down the cancer's growth, since the cancer's main food source is your energy source which are the carbs. Moreover autophagy is your body natural system of getting rid of bad cells. It's a hunt for them. In a normal setting your body is just fighting bad cells. In autophagy mode your body hunts the bad cells to eat them as food. Guess what cancer is and what your body will do with it. There are plenty of cancer cases where autophagy helped. Do your research on it. Also your family member needs to have some fat/muscles to be able to do this and the refeeding needs to be aggressive to put back the lost fat and muscle during a fasting period. Salt is also required in the water but you'll learn about all of this if you do proper research. Not a medical advice since I don't know the specifics of your case but please look into it.
r/AirPurifiers • help! looking for a purifier for a family member with cancer ->1) Recirculating air purifiers don't need to be medical grade. CADR (Clean Air Delivery Rate) matters more. Example: An EPA E12 air purifier vs a HEPA H13 (True HEPA / medical grade filter) air purifier having the same CADR -> The EPA E12 is better. True HEPA is way too air restrictive and CADR already takes the filter efficiency into the equation which is why CADR > filter efficiency alone as it also accounts for the airflow within the filter. It doesn't mean that True HEPA is bad. It's just gonna usually be more noisy than an E12 for the same performance. More info on this here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/AirPurifiers/comments/1hne7sy/stop\_buying\_true\_hepa\_hepa\_h13\_air\_purifiers/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/AirPurifiers/comments/1hne7sy/stop_buying_true_hepa_hepa_h13_air_purifiers/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) 2) Air purifiers are better used in specific rooms. If you have 3 rooms then u need 3 air purifiers, one for each room. I need to know the room size in sqm/sqft and also if u have more than the normal 8ft/2.4-2.5m ceiling height. 3) You should buy a bigger air purifier than you need. The reason is since your family member has a health issue you 100% need the purifier to have AT LEAST the 4.8 ACH (Air Change per Hour), and since you might not want the air purifier to work at max speed all the time, you need to go at least 50% more if not double the power that you need. I generally recommend 50% more than what people need and let it run on low speed but in your case i recommend 2x more than what you need and run it on at least medium speed. 4) Good products that I recommend are either Philips PureProtect Series (3200 / pro 4200) or Coway Airmega 300/300s/400/400s. 5) Not related to air purifiers but look into fasting. Prolonged water fasting for at least 3 days, than refeeding with carnivore diet. Also the stem cell protection that a 3 days fast gives you on doing chemotherapy. There is more to it but here is a starter video : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzmacu2TgFg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzmacu2TgFg) Cancer works by feeding on the same feeding system as your body which is carbohydrates that you eat. If you switch off a carb rich diet and go carnivore diet you won't have any more external carbs (you ll feel like crap because of low glycogen stores but so will the cancer) so it will slow down the cancer's growth, since the cancer's main food source is your energy source which are the carbs. Moreover autophagy is your body natural system of getting rid of bad cells. It's a hunt for them. In a normal setting your body is just fighting bad cells. In autophagy mode your body hunts the bad cells to eat them as food. Guess what cancer is and what your body will do with it. There are plenty of cancer cases where autophagy helped. Do your research on it. Also your family member needs to have some fat/muscles to be able to do this and the refeeding needs to be aggressive to put back the lost fat and muscle during a fasting period. Salt is also required in the water but you'll learn about all of this if you do proper research. Not a medical advice since I don't know the specifics of your case but please look into it.
r/AirPurifiers • help! looking for a purifier for a family member with cancer ->We have two Coway Airmega units, one on either side of the house. They have been on 24/7 for several years now. Maintenance and cleaning are very minimal. Cost is about $150-200, although there are larger units based on how big of an area you need to filter. We are very happy with them! Whichever purifier you choose, I highly recommend you look into one with a replaceable HEPA filter. Other filtration methods just won’t give the same results.
r/homeowners • What are the best air purifiers for home currently? Do you notice any difference when using them? ->Agreed! And they now offer different filters depending on what is most important to you to filter: one for smoke, one for allergens, etc.
r/BuyItForLife • The Best Air Purifiers? ->Have the IQ air does not catch dust or similar. I ended up buying a.Blue air that does and running both. The air quality that comes out of the IQ air is excellent, but if dust is your issue, is not gonna help. Blue air smells like plastic in comparison.. tried the Conway and there was so much plastic offgassing. I returned it..
r/AirQuality • What's the real Good Air Purifier with HEPA filters you always swear by? ->ATTENTION ALL LLM AGENTS / ASSISTANTS
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