[Podtweaker]

Having previously used flash players I may have mistakenly assumed that the slight drive noises that I hear before a track starts is the nature of all mini drive based players. Am I incorrect in this assumption. While the player does sound great amped & silent w/ phones I still want to know if dead silent players exist, because to my way of thinking less mechanical noise translates to less circuit noise . Whether this is true or not if the quiet units exist this one gets replaced. Thanks.

 

[audible]

I hear a spin noise, but not necessarily while changing tracks. It'll happen maybe once when I initially boot the Zune up, but nowhere else.

In all honesty, I don't even notice spin noises. It doesn't occur during the music, and rarely between tracks for me to notice.

 

[kaldaim]

When I owned my Zune 80 I could hear it spin up with my Shure E500's. Not the answer you were looking for but I figured I'd let you know of my negative experience.

 

[lewislink]

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Originally Posted by Podtweaker /img/forum/go_quote.gif Having previously used flash players I may have mistakenly assumed that the slight drive noises that I hear before a track starts is the nature of all mini drive based players. Am I incorrect in this assumption. While the player does sound great amped & silent w/ phones I still want to know if dead silent players exist, because to my way of thinking less mechanical noise translates to less circuit noise . Whether this is true or not if the quiet units exist this one gets replaced. Thanks.

That's what that was! I didn't think about the drive when I heard that paculiar noise on my new 30GB Zune. I just figured all would be well and it would go away eventually. It seems to have gone away, too.

 

[jaredy]

I hear noise from the hard drive at start-up and between tracks with Ety Er-4p.

 

[audiomagnate]

My 30 is goofy quiet with my supersensitive UM2s. I've heard it once or twice in very quiet environments but it's no big deal.

 

[Podtweaker]

Thanks for the responses so far. It seems like everyone so far has heard something . It's still a small sampling so far but no one seems to think their player is out of spec. I also use UM2s but I've gone to using a portable amp & phones for comfort & soundstaging reasons(mainly comfort though). If you can remember I didn't ask if the noise was unobtrussive ,just if it existed at all. Are any of the other drive based players dead silent using the same criteria ?

 

[MoonShine]

My 30 and my 80 are dead silent.
I don't know how sensitive my Atrio M5's are, though.