Fair enough, I was exaggerating for effect and didn't mean to impugn the serious approach to silence you took.
You do bring up another point I had considered...the subjective nature of noise and how to express it in an easily understood way.
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Originally Posted by pdf27
Total radiated noise is on a par with a Nexus 120mm fan at approximately 7v
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Assuming we all had said Nexus fan in hand this would certainly be one viable method of communicating an evaluation.
You also judged the noise output with the machine totally assembled (I am assuming the sidepanels were in place, etc) and in it's real environment- again, a valid method.
Until/unless someone wants to step and build an anechoic chamber big enough to hold say, um, a Stacker and invest in the sound gathering/analyzing hardware we're going to have to design a set of expressions that can be commonly understood and whose methodology is easily duplicated (i.e. "a Nexus <insert model # here>120mm fan at 12v held 12" from the ear (earwax recently removed and even layer of AS5 -not fully cured yet- applied as per website instructions).
If someone does build the sound testbench we can then get into giant debate about the testing validity/procedures which, with any luck will generate lots of pixelated O positive.
Anyway, for myself, I suspect the most interesting aspect of this subforum will be the pics anyway.
Seeing how folks approach a problem is more interesting to me than their analysis of the success. After all, a clever suspension that fails with a HDD might be just the ticket for a PSU or whatever.