So there's been this thing in tech YouTube lately where the larger outlets are trying to build sound isolation chambers to improve their testing but I feel like since that's not a real world use case it's all well and good to have "pure and accurate measurements" so that you can do a comparison, but really like, how is the noise level in actual spaces like a living room, bedroom, home office, etc?
yeah i've been much much more annoyed by my modern fans that are quiet but whose tone happens to beat rather dissonantly with my fridge when it comes on, than say, my 10-years-older much louder but distinctly white-noisey XP machine.
tell me if this graphics card's thermal management makes the fans whistle up and down in a shitty breathing pattern, tell me if the hum is close but not close enough to 60hz to matter, tell me if im going to hear it through the gap between my headphones and my skull in a way that makes it sound like it's behind me, not in front.
idk.
anechoic chambers are just marketable.
