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I consider my 2TB unit to be whisper quiet compared to other Humax models that I own, can’t see how you can say it’s not really.
phlppip – 1 hour ago »
I consider my 2TB unit to be whisper quiet compared to other Humax models that I own, can’t see how you can say it’s not really.
I think the issue with personal opinions on noise is that each person has a different hearing threshold. I remember being with a group of friends fifty years ago and one of them said he could hear the sound of air leaking from a tyre valve; none of the rest of us could hear it until we got very close to the offending wheel. My hearing has since deetiolated considerably so what I might consider as whisper quiet is a cacophony to someone with acute hearing. I suspect the Aura is quieter than other Humax units but anything with a fan and a rotating hard drive will inevitably make some noise. In just a few more years I expect to see the rotating drives replaced by SSD drives and fans no longer required and then we might have truly silent units.
Yes I agree, however a whisper is pretty much a subscribed volume, which the Aura fan does not come any where near.
phlppip – 4 hours ago »
Yes I agree, however a whisper is pretty much a subscribed volume, which the Aura fan does not come any where near.
What is a “Subscribed volume” please? If you are doing scientific measurements with appropriate measuring instrumentation then yes you can set levels and assign them a name such as “whisper quiet”. the problem is that on this forum I suspect people aren’t using any instrumentation beyond their own ears and each person will assign a different value to “whisper quiet”.
I would have thought it was fairly obvious when the average person whispers to someone else and the words can be understood by the receiver with average hearing.
In this line everything is done by the average to rule out extremes.
You do seem to be very pedantic.
phlppip – 15 hours ago »
In this line everything is done by the average to rule out extremes.
People are offering their personal opinions on the noise level of the Aura; how can that be an average? Let alone the fact that experience with other Humax boxes suggests there is fair bit of variation in noise between individual units off the production line.
You do seem to be very pedantic.
So do you.
I guess a whisper can be heard but not silence. I can hear mine clicking away when it’s recording in a quiet room.
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