Hands-on review: Levoit Superior 6000S smart humidifier

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Let’s see what you’re getting here…The Superior 6000S is a freestanding large format indoor humidifier designed to put moisture back into your air, covering up to 3,000 square feet—enough to humidify your whole home.

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It’s on wheels and has a detachable hose for easy movement and fill-ups, and one tank-full will run for up to 72 hours. By the way; it also uses plain tap water so no need to source distilled.

How do I know if I need a humidifier?

Before we go too far with the Superior 6000S; how do you know you need a humidifier and how can you choose one?

What is ideal home humidity?

You could get an air quality monitor like the one I have to tell you exactly what your humidity levels are; proper humidity is between 30 and 50%. As you can see mine—at 30%— is definitely on the low side.

No monitor? No problem…I’m going to put on my Bill Nye the Science Guy hat here for a sec to help you figure it out.

There are a few telltale signs of a dry home:

Excess static electricity: if you’re getting shocks or giving them or your hair is out of control, you may have a dry home.

Dry, itchy eyes, skin, constantly chapped lips: if you’re forever using moisturizer and lip balms or moistening eye drops without any relief, dryness may be contributing to the problem.

Coughs or Nosebleeds: in some cases breathing dry air can cause nosebleeds or persistent coughing. If a doctor says you’re okay, it may be time to investigate better humidity at home.

A humidifier is simply a device that helps more moisture, or water (also called humidity) get into your home.

When it comes to choosing a humidifier there’s four types:
• Central humidifier: Part of central home heating or cooling systems.
• Ultrasonic or Impeller humidifiers: These devices use sound waves or a special rotating disc to give off a cool mist.
• Steam vaporizer: Electricity creates hot steam inside that then cools before leaving the machine.
• Evaporators: These devices use a fan to blow air through a wet wick, filter or belt.

What is evaporative technology?

The Superior 6000S is a smart evaporative humidifier. It’s just helping to speed up the natural process of water evaporating into vapor and then being pushed out. Since the water vapor passes through the built-in wick filters , it helps capture large particles and minerals, meaning less dust and build up.

Set up: fast and simple

Getting the humidifier set up was quick and easy. There’s a handful of parts, and they go together quickly.

The bottom is the large capacity water tank (it holds 6 gallons or 22.7litres), a support frame goes on top of that, then the wick-filter basket and finally the humidifier-top, which houses the fan and controls.

Remove the top and use the included funnel-hose to fill the tank directly from the nearest tap; lines on the front of the tank will show you when it’s full.

Place the top back on and turn it on. You can choose from a variety of settings and change them on the device or with the VeSync app.

VeSync app & smart voice control

The app adds a new level of smart to the Superior 6000S, since you can turn it off or on, make adjustments, set a sleep timer and even run a daily or weekly schedule right from your phone or tablet.

If you prefer managing things hands-free, you can connect the app to Google Home or Amazon Alexa to enable voice control also. I set mine up with Alexa and it was super convenient to use.