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Tweaks for systems, rooms and Do It Yourself (DIY) help. FAQ.

Start at the source of your trouble.

You got a good reply from someone over in General. Check to see if the fans in question have internal damping and, if so, if it's in good shape.

If not, call the bonehead who sold and installed the cooling system and tell him you'd like to have a word with him.

I'm no doctor, nor a scholar of environmental health, but as a young man I worked summer jobs in factory environments where "vibration sickness" was part of the employee lore.

More recently, I once had an office in a Manhattan skyscraper that vibrated. When I complained, the operations manager just thought I was bucking for a bigger one. I made him stand in there with me for five minutes.

Well, he only lasted three. I got the new office (and it was bigger, too, now that I think about it).

If nothing else, remember that sound IS vibration. So anything that's shaking (like your rack, for instance) is producing a low level drone. Maybe you can't hear it, but you CAN feel it. And the only vibrations you want in your listening room should come from your system.

If you can't or don't want to move to another room, I'd look at repairing, improving or, if needs be, replacing that cooling system.

And I'm not "kidding". :-)

Good luck with this.


~~b


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  • Start at the source of your trouble. - Bosh 21:21:47 01/20/03 (0)


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