We Bought Apple's Old Acoustic Testing Mini-Chamber

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You know it’s something special when we do an unboxing. This acoustic chamber will be used for our noise testing (including frequency spectrum testing) of fans, coolers, and PSU fans.
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We're still working on our large acoustic chamber, but this one is a good start! This chamber will allow us to test case fans, CPU coolers, and PSU fans (which we can do without a power load inside the chamber) for noise levels. The biggest additions to our existing methodology are these two points: (1) a lower noise floor, so much easier to collect data below a certain threshold (e.g. identifying which fan is the best at a low RPM), and more importantly, (2), frequency spectrum analysis. This means we will finally be able to test the *type* of noise being produced by a product, not just the noise level! Cases will not be tested in this chamber, nor will pre-builts. Those will follow our standard methods until we get the larger one.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Unboxing Our Sound Chamber
02:49 - What to Expect from the Mini Sound Chamber
04:15 - The Plan
09:03 - Destruction Begins
11:05 - MISSION COMPLETE
12:13 - Sound Chamber Walk-Around
14:36 - Quick Demo of the Chamber
16:55 - Current Noise Testing Methodology & Background

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