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From: emrath@uiuccsb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Re: Dynamic Range Estimate - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 25-Aug-83 05:28:26 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 25 05:28:26 1983
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uiuccsb!emrath    Aug 25 01:53:00 1983

Wow, I think you hit on something.
I don't have a CD player, but I also get annoyed by refrigerator
noise at night, interfering with stereo listening. 
I don't want to turn it (the stereo vol) up such that I disturb
my neighbors or roommate, but when that heating ventilation system
kicks in I sometimes have to run over and crank it up a bit.
Then when it shuts off, the stereo seems rather loud.
Even the hum from the power transformers in my power amps
bothered me (i.e. I could hear it, not in the speakers mind you).
I'm probably crazy, but I went so far as to put cork pads between
the transformers and chassises (what IS the plural of chassis?).
It made a difference. (I suppose it would have been easier to set them
on a piece of carpet or something, but this was esthetically cleaner!)

During the day?  Turn it up & forget about it.