lqdsnddist
Axe-Master
I used to have a II with a pretty loud fan, swapped it with a Noctua silent fan and it was much improved, AND, the II was in a rack case. That combination made things pretty much inaudible at more than a foot away...
I then moved to an AX8, which is totally silent.
Now I've got a III, and right now its sitting on my desk, and the fan while not obnoxious, is pretty noticeable even from some distance away in the room. I know its been said its got a quieter fan the XL+, but not having had a stock unit, I feel I've kind of lost my baseline for what the fan should sound like.
So, how would everyone rate the fan noise ? Essentially silent ? About a loud as a typical computer fan ? Louder than that ?
Just trying to get an idea of if mine is as it should be. It will go back into a rack case at some point and I know that will knock the dB down a bit, but in the interim its loud enough to be mildly annoying, given I built silent PC's for my studio and there is basically zero ambient noise in my new house/neighborhood.
I then moved to an AX8, which is totally silent.
Now I've got a III, and right now its sitting on my desk, and the fan while not obnoxious, is pretty noticeable even from some distance away in the room. I know its been said its got a quieter fan the XL+, but not having had a stock unit, I feel I've kind of lost my baseline for what the fan should sound like.
So, how would everyone rate the fan noise ? Essentially silent ? About a loud as a typical computer fan ? Louder than that ?
Just trying to get an idea of if mine is as it should be. It will go back into a rack case at some point and I know that will knock the dB down a bit, but in the interim its loud enough to be mildly annoying, given I built silent PC's for my studio and there is basically zero ambient noise in my new house/neighborhood.