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So I will be moving some time soon (within the next year) and I want to get myself a new setup which ensures privacy. I record videos and stream every now and then, though I do also have interest in singing, which I would like to try out in my new home. Do you have recommendations for acoustic panels which ensure privacy by not letting sound escape the room, but also ensure audio quality? I live in Germany, so our walls are pretty thick to begin with, but still. Are there also some microphone recommendations? I don't have a specific budget, but I'd like the things to not be expensive if they don't have to be. I've tried looking through websites, YouTube reviews and Amazon pages, though I don't really have an expertise in audio, so I don't really know what to look for. Any help is appreciated!

Budget (including currency): N/A Country: Canada Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: N/A Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): N/A Hey Everyone! I know this is a bit of an odd question to ask here, but I'm wondering if it would be possible/practical to use Noctua anti-vibration fan mounts in my recording booth build. Specifically, I was wondering if it would be feasible to use them to suspend a bathroom fan inside the ventilation unit I'm designing for the booth. I'm using the bathroom ventilation fan as the main air-puller for air intake, in an enclosed unit on the roof of my booth. It'll intake from the top of the booth, and push air into some 4" corrugated tubing in a spiral around the inside of the vent box, before terminating in a vent on the interior of the booth, with a swivel mouth so I can direct the air either towards my face if I'm warm, or to the wall if I don't need direct cooling. The fan itself has a sound rating of 0.3 sones, so it's the quietest possible bathroom fan, and it's my hope that the extra lengthy vent tubing will get rid of any remaining fan sound that still ends up being made from the air that makes its way into the booth interior . The only thing I'm worried about, now, is sound being transmitted through the structure of my sound booth. I worry that if I mount the fan to the top of the booth with traditional hardware, any rattling will be transferred directly through the walls, into the interior of the booth, rendering all this effort useless. You can see in the pics I've provided that the fan (The big grey box inside the roof compartment) would attach to the top panel (The panel hovering above the whole thing, with the white intake cover). And the corrugated vent tubing would snake around inside the big open cavity of the space within. So would Noctua anti-vibration fan mounts be a good solution? or I could just loosely zip tie instead of using screws, so it's hanging loose from the top interior surface of the vent unit? Lol I know this isn't an acoustics or sound engineer forum, but any advice would be helpful!

So I have an ASRock X570M Pro4 motherboard. Truth be told, I only bought it because it was available as an open-box return item at Microcenter for a steep discount. I planned on getting the much cheaper B450M Pro4. Anyway, there is a tiny little fan directly over the chipset, attached to the "m.2 armor" This fan sucks. It sounds awful. I've taken it apart and tried to see if there's something obvious causing it to sound extra bad but it looks to just be a really cheap little awful fan. What can I do about it? Could I get away with just removing it? >_> Or, probably a better idea, replace it with a better fan? I could take it apart and get a photo of what it looks like with the 'armor' plate taken off if that would help.

So my PC is really loud, like it's like you can hear the air flowing through it really easily - but can a bad case give bad acoustics. Like should I go for a more expensive case and that'd help the acoustics, because at the moment all I hear is the like the air flowing through the case.

Hey Guys, I'm planning out a very special desk PC build and need some input on the cooler and a few other things. I plan on upgrading to an i9-9900k with at least 2 2080 TI Supers in SLI/NVlink, whatever it's called. I'm debating severely on what to use for cooling for the CPU. I would much prefer air cooling if at all possible, thinking about a DRP 4 but then if I wanted to go AIO, I was thinking about the Kraken x72. I also plan to delid the CPU when I get it, as a side note. Not too keen on water cooling as I have never done it before and it seems like really high maintenance. Not too sure on the final design of the desk PC but I for sure want to put some sound dampening material on the inside, probably just cover the whole inside of it where possible. But I'm not too sure what material to use, foam or fabric? There seems to be an endless supply of options out there. Any help or suggestions towards these problems would be greatly appreciated, or anything you think I should know going into building a PC into a desk. Thanks!

Hi. My PCs stereo speakers are currently sitting on my glass James table. They're really bassey and I can feel the vibration in my hands when I'm at my PC. In terms of acoustics, I'm sure set up this isn't great. However, I'm more concerned if the vibration could potentially damage the speakers and/or glass table? Thanks in advance

Hello LTT folks - I'm planning a build using the Fractal Design Define R6. The stock fan configuration seems "pretty good" but I was looking at options to improve air cooling since I may end up running an overclocked high-end processor and eventually 2080 or some other space heater inside the case. I don't think you can get 3x140 in the front especially with the 5.25 bay up top which I might actually use, so here's what I'm looking at: Option 1: Open top vents, no additional fans. Opening the top vents seems in some reviews to add some cooling performance with a minimal increased noise. I'm a little concerned that this will steal some air pressure focusing front airflow towards the CPU and out the back, but it does give me more space to exhaust air FROM and hot air rises (though fan airflow paths matter more I think) and the tests in the reviews I saw that did them did show better thermals with minimal additional noise. Option 2: Open top vent, 1 or 2 additional fans exhausting there. More noise from fans is a given, but here I'd be pulling air across the CPU heatsink negating some of my fear from option 1 (though this air is more likely to be warmer air from the GPU) and importantly providing some pull for hot air from the GPU up and away from the GPU which seems to be the primary area of airflow/heat concern with this case (hot air trapped between the PSU shroud and the GPU). Option 3: A bottom intake fan. This would help ensure positive air pressure and I can get enough clearance under/around the case for this, but this intake would be at a right angle 90 degrees with the front intakes. There are technically 2 spots for that, and there's a good, easily removable dust filter for them. I'm worried about cross flow messing with airflow making more noise or preventing air from moving back to the GPU intake if I use the frontmost slot - but there appears to be room to put one in the middle-bottom slot where this is less of a concern, maybe? This could pair nicely with option 1's top-vent, maybe get some bottom/front -> top/back airflow going to pull hot air away from the GPU? The bottom vents are visible here: https://youtu.be/LJNBcR46tYA?t=1277 Questions: 1. Should I be worried about right angle airflow creating more noise with option 3? 2. Should I be worried that somehow this will direct airflow up before it gets to the GPU, trapping more hot air between the GPU and PSU shroud? 3. Are these less of a problem if I use the middle-bottom slot as opposed to the front-bottom? I'm not 100% sure how usable that bottom-middle fan slot is with PSU cabling but I hope it'd work. I could also try the bottom-front slot and doing some kind of custom shroud that would sit at a 45 degree angle right over the bottom intake fan, directing that air backwards through the PSU shroud in the hopes that it helps drive airflow through the vents in the shroud that are right underneath the GPU air intake. I feel like that would eliminate my concerns about cross airflow if I had to use that spot. Not sure how much air would realistically exit that way but if I have positive pressure and the fan driving air in there, it seems it might help. My last thought is maybe this is all overkill and I should keep the solid top for acoustics, and just open the front-panel door whenever I'm gaming, since "removed front panel" seems to lead to so much better thermals... then shut it the rest of the day. Can't see the front-panel when I'm sitting at my desk gaming anyhow. Below here are details about some of my build plans and priorities to hopefully stave off some common questions I can anticipate that could change responses: I'm not really interested in other case suggestions unless you're SURE it meets or exceeds based on all of my priorities, so REALLY looking for feedback on case airflow options in that specific case. I've not BOUGHT this case already but my mind is close to made up on that so something would have to blow me away. Here are my priorities: 1. "Good enough" airflow WHILE maintaining very good acoustics. 2. Good build quality / features / flexibility. 3. Minimalist / clean design aesthetic - e.g. no RGB light pollution, prefer solid black, probably won't get the TG version even though I plan to take care for clean/pretty cable routing/etc. There are a minimum of 4 and sometimes as many as 5-6 PCs in my office and I spend the day on the phone, so acoustics are a higher priority for me than most people. Within that constraint, I want as much airflow for overclocking options and performance for when I'm gaming. I am conflicted but leaning heavily to air cooling because the best air coolers have comparable thermals, cost less, with less risk that a pump gets noisy over time or worse - so I have no radiator placement concerns to work with. I kept my current PC for like 6+ years and I'll be building 2 of these so I feel like odds are the AIO option's increased maintenance risk is too big a factor - more things to go wrong, higher potential for an expensive or involved repair. I expect to use a multiple-fan non-blower-style GPU. My PSU will be pulling air from below isolated from the case.

Hi guys. I've been wanting to push my overclocks on my GPU and CPU a LOT higher, and hopefully improve acoustics at the same time. So, I got thinking. Should I stick with my NZXT H440 and go for a custom water loop, or do I go for a miner oil aquarium style build like Linus and Luke built here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V06LLTNxc4?

Hello, I've been reading around the internet for information about these Fractal AIOs. I'm considering their K24 for my future build. Why do I look at these compared to say the Corsair H110? I personally like them for their high-end build quality, for their expandability (without going premium like EK's AIO) and that they seem to perform very good. However, what reviewers seem to be unable to agree on is if these are loud or not. Some reviewers come out and say that they are the most silent AIOs out there (or one of the most silent), while others complain that the pump vibrates, is noisy and that the fans click during low RPMs. So thus I'd like to know fro YOU guys have to say about these AIOs. Are they loud? I want to get as silent of a system as possible; Would be a compromise between sound, temps, and cost I guess.

Been looking for a new PSU for my future build as 850W might not cut it. So I started looking at the Corsair AX1200i, and reading reviews (NCIX and NewEgg). NCIX reviews don't mention much noise, but NewEgg reviewers say that there is a lot of noise. The noise profile listed in the description for the AX1200i is only for the fans. I'm expecting a load between 70-80%. Anyone have experience with this PSU and at this load? As this computer will be sitting a few feet from my bed, and will likely kept running all night, acoustics is quite important to me.

They apparently seem to be a BestBuy exclusive sort of product, can't really find any information on them. The speakers I'm looking at is the CB4 from their Classic Series. They will be on sale this weekend for around 85$. I am still in search of a fairly good, sub 200 pair of bookshelf speakers for my setup and these don't look so bad, just that there aren't any real information or reviews on them which is quite unsettling. If anyone has any experience with the brand or any other recommendations, please do :lol: