Always there. It can get louder or quieter while changing the rpm and is especially louder around 1200 rpm, but it never completely goes away.
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Mac Studio Owners Complain of Irritating High-Pitched Noise
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I'm afraid to even order one for fear it would have the annoying whine. Here's hoping Apple fixes the problem soon. I'm sure it's a bad batch of fans or a particular assembly location.
If your work environment is quiet, don't order. Seriously.
Here is my 2015 iMac with its old but still going great fan.
And here is the Mac Studio.
This is simply unacceptable for a so called high-end machine.
I used Macs Fan Control to manually change the rpm to 1100 and back to auto and created another recording. I now believe this is a whine from the power supply, not the bearings because of the sharp changes in the frequency of the sound as the fan speed slows down or speeds up. I'll talk with Apple today to see if they will have any comments, but this machine is definitely going back. I don't care about the hum of the fans, in fact it is a great white noise, but the whine is not and very unbearable in a silent work environment.
Again, this is a custom order M1 Ultra, so the issue is not only apparent in M1 Max devices. Perhaps Apple will fix this in a rev 2 machine.
Again, this is a custom order M1 Ultra, so the issue is not only apparent in M1 Max devices. Perhaps Apple will fix this in a rev 2 machine.
It's a surreal experience playing those on a fanless Air!
The fans themselves are not that loud in my opinion. You just get used to them in a few minutes. If the environment gets slightly louder, the whine is even drowned out. But when it is silent, it is unbearable. If all Mac Studios are like this, to market this device as a studio component to music producers or people in silent environments, while having great acoustic test chambers, testing it thoroughly and then accepting this issue as normal would be a joke.
Macstudio ulta, I agree with you. I thinks its a power draw from the power supply that's making the high pitch noise. I run mine at 1700 and get a nice low level white noise from the fan. Temp below 90. Not sure what to do.
This is exactly how mine sounded. I just returned it, don’t try to convince yourself it’s worth keeping.
Just tried 1700. It is still there. I have an appointment with the service tomorrow. As it is probably one of the first Mac Studios if not the first in my country, I am sure they will have a field day with it. I am not planning to leave it there though. I will most probably return it in a few days.
I had purchased a studio display for it. I have no idea what I'll do with that now.
Don’t expect much from your visit. My apple store acted like i was the first person to have this problem.
As expected, the service appointment was a dead end. They said it could take a day or 10, so I decided not to have it serviced. I have till next Friday to return it, so I’ll just run the device continuously since then. I suspect this is a coil whine and they sometimes disappear with use. The opposite can happen too. If it does not disappear, it will go back.
That sounds like a very distant jet engine idling on the tarmac. I am astounded that Apple doesn't see a problem here.
Just got mine yesterday - and I have to say I really love it. So far, no noise issues ??
so i finally got my hands on a studio ultra with 128 gb ram. after 3 days of light use, and after waking the machine up from an 8 hour sleep, i too started hearing this high pitched whine- sure enough right around 2120 Hz. loud enough that it's difficult to ignore, like everybody says!
i leaned in closer, and realized- it's not the fan or the computer at all, this sound was coming out of the speaker! sure enough, dipping the fader on the mixer the 1/8 in audio output of the computer is plugged into, the sound goes away!
no idea if this can be replicated by anyone else experiencing this issue, but for what it's worth, there is an approximately 2120 hz tone coming out of the headphone jack on my expensive new computer. rebooting now to see what happens.
i leaned in closer, and realized- it's not the fan or the computer at all, this sound was coming out of the speaker! sure enough, dipping the fader on the mixer the 1/8 in audio output of the computer is plugged into, the sound goes away!
no idea if this can be replicated by anyone else experiencing this issue, but for what it's worth, there is an approximately 2120 hz tone coming out of the headphone jack on my expensive new computer. rebooting now to see what happens.
I was excited to hear this since I couldn’t care less about the sound coming out the headphone jack. Tried plugging headphones into it, but no luck. My situation is still with the coil whine. It looks like the fans interfere with different components in different devices.
I'm realizing the most of the high pitch noise is not actually coming from my Mac. I turned the Mac off and the noise continued. Thinking it might be residual power, I unplugged the Mac and let it sit overnight. In the morning the noise continued. I physically moved the silent Mac across the room. Back at the desk, the noise continued. I then unplugged an old SATA backup drive. Though the drive did contribute to the noise, the high pitch noise continued. I have 2 USB hubs with various thumb drives and device cables. I shut power strip off to the entire desk. The high pitch noise disappeared.
Conclusion, in my case, it is not the Mac Studio that is making the noise. It is one of the peripherals. Good thing the Mac Studio has multiple ports. I will have to reconfigure my peripherals. Maybe I'll get a new SSD backup drive and ditch the USB hubs.
I repeat. In my case the high pitch noise is NOT coming from the Mac Studio.
Just like our forebears had to deal with the 60hz hum, our modern world of electronics has brought us the 2120hz squeal.
Conclusion, in my case, it is not the Mac Studio that is making the noise. It is one of the peripherals. Good thing the Mac Studio has multiple ports. I will have to reconfigure my peripherals. Maybe I'll get a new SSD backup drive and ditch the USB hubs.
I repeat. In my case the high pitch noise is NOT coming from the Mac Studio.
Just like our forebears had to deal with the 60hz hum, our modern world of electronics has brought us the 2120hz squeal.
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So here is the result from my ongoing experiment. I think there is an audible difference between the whine on Monday and the whine today (Saturday). Hear it for yourself:
I have been running the device continuously with the fan rpms that create the most resonant whine. After that, I take the fans back to auto mode with 1330 rpm default to check the results for a few minutes. It looks like the default whine is now much tolerable. I still have time to return it till next Sunday. We'll see how it goes. 😊
Reference is made to my last post.
I’ve tried to find something that can be used by anybody having an iPhone (AudioTools is working with iOS only to my knowledge) and willing to spend less than 50 EUR in order to have the same tool to be able to compare results, and detect faulty machines.
I think my Mac Studio Max basic (Mac 13,1 - 12.4 (21F79)) is working well.
I’m using AudioTools (15.4) from App Store on my iPhone 13 Pro Max and Macs Fan control Pro (1.5.13).
Find here after AudioTools conf I’m using,
I’ve tried to find something that can be used by anybody having an iPhone (AudioTools is working with iOS only to my knowledge) and willing to spend less than 50 EUR in order to have the same tool to be able to compare results, and detect faulty machines.
I think my Mac Studio Max basic (Mac 13,1 - 12.4 (21F79)) is working well.
I’m using AudioTools (15.4) from App Store on my iPhone 13 Pro Max and Macs Fan control Pro (1.5.13).
Find here after AudioTools conf I’m using,
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I decided to return and replace the Mac Studio today. The whine did not disappear completely, but resonating it for a week or so did reduce it. Also Apple accepted to take the Studio Display too. If the second Studio also comes with the whine, I'll return it immediately and wait for a revised hardware in the future. I hope the iMac continues working correctly for that time.