Moonlight
macrumors 65816
It is the point. And a properly working Mac Studio has no noise. If your does, take it back and get another one.
Mac Studio Owners Complain of Irritating High-Pitched Noise
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nastysailboat
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I’ve got some hue lights that do this. At full brightness. It’s actually pretty bad.
nastysailboat
Cancelled
Is there such thing as a happy user any more?
Marshall73
macrumors 68030
Firmware update to alter fan curve profile to avoid “whine”
Boris Bronson
macrumors regular
If users don’t like it then Apple should just pull out of the computer market.
digitalrampage
macrumors regular
Well if I want a higher pitched whine, I’ll just read some Apple support forums 😏😏😏😆
#fangate #whinegate #withinoperatingspecsgate
#fangate #whinegate #withinoperatingspecsgate
Marshall73
macrumors 68030
Shouldn’t have any machines in the recording studio, just control equipment. We house all kit in an external cabinet so there is no machine noise in the studio, fairly standard setup as you never know when you may experience coil whine from ageing kit . In the recording booths we only have connections for mics etc.
I was 100% happy with the M1 Air.
I'm 100% happy with the M1 Max MacBook Pro that I use at work.
The Studio is 90% amazing, but the idle noise is a real shame.
Oops, you're right. Good catch.
star-affinity
macrumors 68020
Sounds like a description of my tinnitus since one year now.
Unwanted noise can be really irritating. Hope it will get sorted soon (and my/everyone's tinnitus too).
Or the other way around, early units quiet, late units loud. None of the youtubers had the whine and they mostly had early units.
Marshall73
macrumors 68030
Yup, lots of PS5 units had it. In later units they used more resin in the psu module to reduce/prevent whine. I have been lucky with mine, no issues.
justwannagohome
macrumors newbie
Things seemed to have changed – and many audio professionals (not to mention: amateurs) were glad at the prospect of no longer needing external cabinets anymore.
Mine has a definite resonance whine at certain fan rpms. I hear it as the fans ramp up and down (using a dan control app) through certain speeds. It’s there at the default which is irritating but, oddly, I can make it go away by either blocking some holes in the back temporarily or by tapping the studio on the side.
I wonder if it’s either an artefact of having two fans running almost at the same frequency or a misalignment in the bearings or something like that.
It’s weird and it comes and goes. I can live with it for now and will see how the noise develops as I use the machine.
I wonder if it’s either an artefact of having two fans running almost at the same frequency or a misalignment in the bearings or something like that.
It’s weird and it comes and goes. I can live with it for now and will see how the noise develops as I use the machine.
leicaman
macrumors 6502
Yeah, well if there is a sound, I can't hear it on mine, but then I have tinnitus. So who knows?
Seriously, zero sound coming from mine. I have yet to hear the fans. But I have two OWC 4M2 RAIDs sitting next to it that have pretty noisy fans, but what does one expect with eight NVME SSDs running inside those boxes? Also on the desk is a SanDisk Thunderbolt 3 12TB G-Drive and it's darn silent too.
On a side note I had to replace a fan on one of the 4M2 raids, and OWC doesn't carry replacement parts for the original version. So I had to pull it out and track down the manufacturer. I got them to ship me two of the fans from China ($11 each, shipping $35). No more OWC proprietary purchases for me.
Seriously, zero sound coming from mine. I have yet to hear the fans. But I have two OWC 4M2 RAIDs sitting next to it that have pretty noisy fans, but what does one expect with eight NVME SSDs running inside those boxes? Also on the desk is a SanDisk Thunderbolt 3 12TB G-Drive and it's darn silent too.
On a side note I had to replace a fan on one of the 4M2 raids, and OWC doesn't carry replacement parts for the original version. So I had to pull it out and track down the manufacturer. I got them to ship me two of the fans from China ($11 each, shipping $35). No more OWC proprietary purchases for me.
Marshall73
macrumors 68030
LTT is a strange one. They like to do Apple vids for the clicks but he is a major hater of Apple kit in general. Each to their own I guess, some of his vids on apple are just cringe.
I have both ‘early on and a later production’ models. Neither of them has coil whine.
justwannagohome
macrumors newbie
And then again: most of those early reviewers (if not all) are based in the US.
That certainly implies it isn't a bad batch of them or grouping. I don't have anything like what I've heard as coil whine, but the extra loud fans and that noise may be related. Hard to tell until someone actually proves it's coil whine or just fan noise. (or both, i.e. 2 problems)
mdriftmeyer
macrumors 68040
Don't smoke around the systems?
Yvan256
macrumors 603
Are those hue lights Made in Mexico or Made in China? Different problem, but the last one I bought was Made in Mexico and I had a hard time flashing the latest firmware to it.
Mr. Rod
macrumors member
I have my M1 Max Mac Studio for 5 days now (base 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD) and haven't noticed any sound at all. The fan noise is very very minimal and only really noticeable if I put my ear close to the machine. Very happy with it so far, it's blazing fast compared to my old iMac from 2017.
blazerunner
Suspended
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Schaufelmann
macrumors newbie
I returned my Mac Studio Ultra. I'm working in a very quiet office, and the constant fan noise and occasional high-pitched whining noise was too loud and annoying for me. Too bad.... I was very impressed by the performance. Going back to a MacBook Pro now.