funny_polymath
Fractal Fanatic
What was that, sonny? WHAT? HuH????My fan is really loud so it forces me to crank up my monitors. A good thing.
What was that, sonny? WHAT? HuH????My fan is really loud so it forces me to crank up my monitors. A good thing.
When the axe-fx II was released the fans were quite noisy but I think part of that was because of the G2 modeling. The amps are so real now the fans were having a hard time keeping it down. Then all the famous artists started using them and again the fans became almost to a point of crazy. The fans started shouting stuff like "oh my god I can't believe Petrucci and Vai are using this thing, it's awesome!!!"
Sometimes it's just hard to be a fan without making noise, generally because of excitement.
No but seriously, I love my fan and I don't notice it at all. Sometimes the speed changes but so does the weather. I don't mind, it's not noticable.
in short: not an issue! :razz
It sounds to me like the level of fan noise varies quite a bit between units, no? Is there another fan available now that meets Fractal's recommendations?
What is the cooling power of the current Axe-Fx II fan?
If push comes to shove, you could always just buy your own fan with at least as much cooling as the stock fan, but that doesn't make as much noise.
If it were only that easy. The quieter solution is less reliable and Fractal has to honor warranties and thus doesn't desire to trade off reliability for claims. The noisy fan seems to have a useful life of a decade and the alternative under two years.
Ask yourself this, if you were Cliff, would you spend $5 more per unit to make this go away if you could?
The quieter solution IN THE CURRENT FORM FACTOR may be less reliable. But a different design, utilizing vents and heat sinks might have required no fan, or a much slower, quieter fan, like the Matrix GT1000FX 2UIf it were only that easy. The quieter solution is less reliable and Fractal has to honor warranties and thus doesn't desire to trade off reliability for claims. The noisy fan seems to have a useful life of a decade and the alternative under two years.
Ask yourself this, if you were Cliff, would you spend $5 more per unit to make this go away if you could?
I wonder if that closed back will affect it's lifespan. I for one would be hesitant to do that.
If it were only that easy. The quieter solution is less reliable and Fractal has to honor warranties and thus doesn't desire to trade off reliability for claims. The noisy fan seems to have a useful life of a decade and the alternative under two years.
Ask yourself this, if you were Cliff, would you spend $5 more per unit to make this go away if you could?
Well, to me it is that easy. If I knew what the CFM rating of the current fans are, I could start my search for a new, quieter fan and know what the minimum cooling threshold is.
The quieter solution IN THE CURRENT FORM FACTOR may be less reliable. But a different design, utilizing vents and heat sinks might have required no fan, or a much slower, quieter fan, like the Matrix GT1000FX 2U
I gotcha. Actually, I'd be okay with buying a new fan every one and a half to two years if it meant near silent operation. Hell I'm even already used to that kind of maintenance on guitar equipment now!
The only difference is that even though the fan will one day just stop working, the Axe-Fx's tone will stay 100% as good as ever right up until that point. I don't even have to worry about the slow but steady degradation of tone over that 1.5-2 year span like I would with tubes!
As they say, if the Queen was born with balls, she might have been King.
And because it would be quiet, you'd forget all about it, one day it would be dead and how would you know? Perhaps you'd use the unit for months without noticing. You know how you are suppose to change your smoke detector batteries when you change the clocks, but in practice you do it when they begin beeping at 3am instead?