Re: New webpage on BBC iPlayer measurements / Linux

In article <h46odu$p6l$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Patrick Wallace
<P.T.Wallace@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Rob" <patchoulianREMOVE@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Wnj9m.59110$OO7.58938@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Although the Mac Mini is by no means silent it's only really audible
at about 2m.

I can vouch for that, and mine has a retrofitted 320GB WD 7200rpm HD.

Alas, the above has two snags for me.

One is that I sit closer than 2m to some of the kit I use when listeing to
audio. Although I am about 3m from the Shuttle I am using in the hifi room
system.

The other is the meaning of "really audible". I can often hear the mains
transformers buzzing in even quite (allegedly) good items of audio
equipment. So often have to dissasemble and modify items to make them
slient. Similarly, can hear the disc rotating in some audio CD/DVD players.

Much of my listening is to 'classical' music that can have long ppp (or
quieter) passages, or pauses. At such times extraneous sounds which would
not be noticed in other situations becomes all too obvious to me.

So far as I am concerned, if someone is to pay hundreds of pounds for
equipment for domestic audio use, then the equipment should be mechanically
*silent*. i.e. even when there is no music or other noises you can't hear
the equipment when right beside it. It is clearly possible to do this as
some items of equipment do it.

Indeed, this can't be ultra-hard since dedicated devices like the Roberts
'net radio' I've been playing with recently has no fans and makes no
mechanical noises. Alas, that has other drawbacks from my POV.

TBH I also am reluctant to pay extra for items to have a 'Mac badge' since
I have no interest in using MacOS.

Slainte,

Jim

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