[linux-audio-user] Quiet case - P180B

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 20:30 +0200, John Anderson wrote:
> I just bought an Antec P180B case. Very nicely put together. Much
> quieter than before, although some fan noise still escapes from the top
> and back vents. I covered the top vent with the breakout box from the
> EWS88MT. That works quite well.
> 
> It's big, and heavy. Not the kind of thing you want to be taking to a
> gig. I can still hear the hard drives when they're working, but just
> barely. The noisiest component in there was the chipset fan, which I've
> unplugged - motherboard temp is sitting at 34 C so it's a cool case as
> well. Now it's the CPU fan, the servers-in-progress in the room next
> door, the Alesis monitor amp which does the 50Hz Tango, and the ringing
> in my ears. Hmm. Maybe some good earplugs will fix that :-|
> 
> My keyboard sounds more clackety than before as well. Which is good, I
> guess.
> 
> I still think the fanless Zalman TNN cases are the ultimate (from the
> website Note : TNN500A's noise level is below 20dB and cannot be
> measured. The anechoic room used by ZALMAN has an ambient noise level of
> 20dB. ). But waaaay expensive.

Yup. The latest batch of machines I built for CCRMA live in those cases.
A beauty... it is great to be near a cluster of them and hear nothing.

-- Fernando