Medify MA-50 Air Purifier: Trusted Review & Specs

The surprisingly well-priced Medify MA-50 can still seemed overpriced against the competition, but it gets a lot of things right. Hopefully, this new air purifier will start new year as a great year of air purifiers. Alright, let’s find out in our today Medify MA-50 Review.

Medify MA-50 ranks C in our air purifier ranking list. We give the biggest and most thorough database of air purifier reviews in the world.

Update: If you want an air purifier for large or extra-large rooms, you should search for the Medify MA-112 or Medify MA-125.

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Medify Air is the family-owned U.S based company with a collection of 10 air purifiers within 3 years. The Medify MA-50 and Medify MA-35 are two new devices to start this company’s new year. As the mid-range air purifier to sit between the Medify MA-40 and Medify MA-112, we have a lot of expectations for this Medify MA-50. So, to know whether the air purifier is for you, let’s read our today Medify MA-50 Review.

Medify MA-50 Price

The Medify MA-50 makes a strong case for itself to compete in the upper mid-range. It builds up higher fan power while running the same H13 True HEPA filter plus the first-time UV-C light bulb. However, its Smart features still remain the Achilles heel of the device, and puts it behind the competition. Overall, it is an extremely enjoyable air purifier that is worth considering at its price.

When Medify Air announced the price of this Medify MA-50 to be $399, it raised quite a few eyebrows. What about the Medify MA-440 which is constantly out of stock. Perhaps, we will say good bye to the old product which doesn’t resemble any other Medify Air brothers.

It is, indeed, released with the new wall-mounted Medify MA-35 at nearly the same price, which this company is vying for a piece of better performance to run in mid-range segment. As unwelcome as other budget devices, this wasn’t really a surprise — In fact, this had always been its mission: to create premium devices and eventually go up the price ladder while focussing on the experience.

The Medify MA-50 is also a great air purifier at its price, because the $399 range is quite mediocre at the moment. Things like Rabbit Air BioGS 2.0, Molekule Air Mini or Dyson Pure Cool Tower lack one or two reasons to stand out. That’s why I think this Medify MA-50 could be the new best air purifier for mold, together with the GermGuardian AC9200 or Vornado PCO575DC.

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Medify MA-50 Design and Size

There is, almost, no difference from the new Medify MA-50 with the last year’s Medify MA-25 and Medify MA-15. There’s no getting around it, aside from the obviously bigger size.

That’s more likely to expect from a device that takes only 1 year to develop, as it has the same plastic build that is dated from the first Medify MA-40, to the point that the company still keeps the image of this old product in the Medify MA-50 product page. It looks like the bigger MA-25 with a screen to show you the current fan speed. That’s sad, because we expect such important information like the current PM 2.5 ratio in indoor air.

At 21 inches, this air purifier looks similar to the MA-40. It also uses the glass touch control panel to make it more premium. The control panel lies beneath the top air grill, which reminds me most of the predecessors of this Medify MA-50.

Inheriting so much from its predecessor isn’t a bad thing, and in fact, the Medify MA-50 has one thing to make its price legit: the 4-side intake design. It runs the common bottom-to-top air flow system concept which will never disappoint anyone. Actually, I love such common system than the reversed one of MA-25 or the simple one of the first MA-40. It makes the Medify MA-50 indeed the mid-range version of the flagship Medify MA-112.

Medify MA-50 still comes with two color options: black and white. Again, the black version looks more polished and premium, and if you want one, you can get from our link below.

At 17 lbs, this Medify MA-50 isn’t exactly a light device. It doesn’t have such convenient handle to help you carry around your home.

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Medify MA-50 Filters

With the new 4-side air filter, the Medify MA-50 can maximize its fan power to thoroughly clean your rooms. Medify MA-50 also breaks the “pure mechanical filter” code that the company keeps for several models. Now, you will have a 4-stage air cleaning system in this air purifier.

1. Pre-filter – A layer of pre-filter covers the True HEPA filter, to prolong the life time of the core filter, by trapping the large objects of pollutants like fur, hair and large dust.
2. True HEPA filter – The True HEPA Filter (graded H13) that captures 99.97% of as small as 0.3 microns allergens, virus particles, pollen, mold and fungi particles.
3. Activated Carbon filter – Uses substantial carbon filter with carbon pellets to remove toxic odors, smoke and formaldehyde.
4. UV-C light filter – Aids in removal of bacteria, viruses and mold particles.

Medify Air adds the UV-C air filter in their new air purifier is a way to deal with viruses in the era of COVID-19 pandemic. However, as we stated earlier, COVID-19 viruses is spread primarily via respiratory droplets – the liquid released from someone’s coughing, sneezing and talking. Air purifiers don’t completely wipe out such viruses from infecting you.

Other than that, the H13 HEPA filter is expected in this mid-range level. In fact, the Medify MA-50 performs quite well in the same test with other competitors, as it remained in the better side together with Levoit LV-H134, Oransi Max and Vornado PCO575DC. The performance was higher than even the old champions like GermGuardian AC9200WCA or TruSens Z-3000.

The filter of Medify MA-50, again, discourages anyone to buy this air purifier. It costs $69, and asks you to change it every 4 months, to comply the Lifetime Warranty of Medify Air.

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Medify MA-50 Room Coverage

The Medify MA-50 comes with a little more “honest” room coverage suggestion from the company: 550 square feet. I have checked and found out that Medify Air is giving more accurate technical specifications in their website. This is a good sign to get the air purifier from this company.

The ACH of Medify MA-50 is up to 4X. If the Medify MA-25 does only two exchanges in 1 hour, it can cover a space of 1000 square feet. And for an ACH rating of 4X, the room coverage is exactly 500 square feet.

The CADR of Medify MA-50 is 300 cfm in general, or 500 m3/h.

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Medify MA-50 Sound

Medify Air isn’t really a brand of making quiet air purifier, but the Medify MA-50 keeps the same noise as other compact devices in the same line. Its lowest noise level is 35 decibels (db), which is the library noise level, and it’s not really bad.

On highest speed, the noise level reaches 56 decibels, which is noisy enough to never run it on maximum speed while sleeping.

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Medify MA-50 Power Consumption

One of our most FAQs is “Do air purifiers use a lot of energy?” In fact, air purifier must be used for a long time to be efficient. And power consumption is one important criteria to review if this air purifier is good or not.

The power consumption of Medify MA-50 is 55 watts, and this air purifier is an Energy Star product. At nearly the same fan power as the Honeywell HPA300, it has around 1/3 power consumption. To be fair, its maximum speed consumes less energy even than the great Coway AP-1512HH.

If you run the Medify MA-50 for 8 hours per day, it would cost you $20 each year.

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Medify MA-50 Additional Features

Sadly, a $399 air purifier like the Medify MA-50 doesn’t have any smart features. Well, the Blue Pure 121 doesn’t have either, but it has higher performance than the Medify MA-50, as well as smaller footprint. A newcomer without Smart features at the moment like this Medify MA-50 is certainly unwelcomed.

Just like other basic Medify Air products, the Medify MA-50 has a Child lock function and a 2-12 hour timer. There is also Nightlight function, but it is not really suitable for such a big device.

Finally, there is a LED indicator for filter replacement. It helps you keep in check with the Lifetime warranty of Medify Air.

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3, Best air purifiers for mold.

Medify MA-50 Customer Service

Medify Air is a well-known air purifier company, especially in Amazon for some obvious reasons, and one being the excellent customer service. They provide easy access from both phone at 302-659-8104, and email at info@medifyair.com.

Medify Air also guarantees your air purifier to be free of defects in material or workmanship for a lifetime period. To start the lifetime warranty, you need to submit a warranty registration within first 30 days, and commit to change genuine Medify Air’s filter every 4 months, 6 months or 1 year (depending on the product), as well as strictly follow the manual guide of Medify Air.

If you want to return the product, you must do it within 30 days of purchase with a valid receipt. Remember to include the original box and packaging materials.

Our verdict

Medify MA-50 is the ninth device of Medify Air, which is really great for a company that’s founded in 2019. However, to step in the mid-range competition, the Medify MA-50 needs more strength and more attraction. Also, such Lifetime warranty with high filter replacement cost is truly frustrating.