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How close do you sit to your source? Do you hear any equipment noise (fans, whirring, etc.)?

If you have time, please vote!

If you have time and want to go to heaven, please vote, write a short post telling what your vote was, and give as detailed a listing of your equipment as possible.

 

[braillediver]

When properly ensconced in the Man Cave with all Tactical Equipment engaged I’m within arms reach of the volume knob and CD player. Gimme a morphine drip / bed pan and I wouldn’t have to move for anything.


Mitch

 

[krmathis]

Usually 0-30 cm, if I count the MacBook Pro as source and not just the transport (DAC is source).
Meaning that I either have it on my lap, or on the desk straight in front of me.

No noise that interfere with my listening session at all. So I am happy!

 

[Uncle Erik]

Just a few feet away. I don't hear anything except the disc drawer opening and closing. Nothing while it plays.

 

[chesebert]

no moving parts ...no noise....nope not even transformer hum...nothing...

 

[goldenratiophi]

My setup is as black as the darkest depths of Sheol. So silent, it is disturbing.

iMac G4. If I weren't looking at it I'd forget it's there.

 

[J.D.N]

Im a student so i pretty much live on top of everything i own. I would have thought that i'd get quite bad hum, but surprisingly it is hardly noticeable.

I am within arms reach of everything, as little effort as possible.

 

[Aardvarks]

12 feet away, I hear nothing, nada, nix, nowt.

I also sit 12 feet away from my speakers and hear lovely soundstage with width, depth and height.

I have yet to find any headphones that come near my main hifi setup

 

[Edwood]

My computer is very quiet, and my Stello DA220 does not have any fans or tranformer coil buzz.

-Ed

 

[Aimless1]

The audio rack is 15 ft away. Listening to it now and unless you call music noise, then no noise.

My D2 is kept far enough away to be out of the way but close enough that I can reach it. So most of the time either in my shirt pocket (guess it makes it 0 in/cm away) or perhaps sitting on a table (which would make it 12-24 in). I'm told the Tomahawk that will be soon be here also makes no noise.

I seldom use a computer as a source, but when I do it is about 36 in away (1 meter).

 

[stewtheking]

Arms length, and I can barely hear any noise from my rig. Laptop fan, well that's another story, but if I'm doing any really serious listening I usually switch the laptop off.

As far as noise from the CD player transport goes, I did have issues with my old CD player (cambridge audio CD5) and ended up getting shot of it, not because I was unhappy with the sound, but entirely because of the transport noise. Ho hum...

 

[swt61]

I'm only 3' from my CD transport, but I hear no noise whatsoever.

 

[Joelc87]

Powerbook G4 with 2007 Micro Stack and Shure SE530's. It's very very very quiet.

 

[Zarathustra19]

I sit with my desktop right next to my leg, so about three feet ish from my hear I would say, my dvd player, which I use as a cd player is two feet in front of me and my vinyl rig is about four feet away. little if any noise from the dvd player, none from the computer, and my vinyl rig sucks the big one, so it crackles and has speed issues constantly, I just learned to live with it until I can upgrade.

 

[jeffreyj900]

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Originally Posted by Uncle Erik /img/forum/go_quote.gif Just a few feet away. I don't hear anything except the disc drawer opening and closing. Nothing while it plays.

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