One of the most infuriating things about modern PCs, barring RGB, is the harmonic resonance of fans. That continually amplified jet engine sound while you're trying to think. It's been my mission for a while to free myself from this. I finally think I've found an ample solution, or rather taken on one from the 2019 Mac Pro 7,1. That is frequency spreading, which is technically just resonance avoidance via RPM offset.
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See Also
To Read
Foundational
- Lord Rayleigh, The Theory of Sound, 2 vols. (1877-1878)
- Fletcher & Munson, "Loudness, Its Definition, Measurement and Calculation," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (1933)
- Leo Beranek & Istvan Ver (eds.), Noise and Vibration Control Engineering (1992, Wiley)
- J.P. Den Hartog, Mechanical Vibrations, 4th ed. (1956, McGraw-Hill)
- Lawrence Kinsler et al., Fundamentals of Acoustics, 4th ed. (2000, Wiley)
Papers
- Lipshitz, Wannamaker & Vanderkooy, "Quantization and Dither: A Theoretical Survey," Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (1992)
- Frank Fahy & Paolo Gardonio, Sound and Structural Vibration, 2nd ed. (2007, Academic Press)
- Zwicker & Fastl, Psychoacoustics: Facts and Models, 3rd ed. (2007, Springer)
Engineering Reference
- ISO 10302: Acoustics - Measurement of Airborne Noise Emitted and Structure-Borne Vibration Induced by Small Air-Moving Devices
- Bernard Widrow & Istvan Kollar, Quantization Noise (2008, Cambridge University Press)
