Hi all, the weather has been ridiculously hot and I've been having to turn up the fan in my listening room, otherwise I'll get baked into the sofa. Now this creates suboptimal listening conditions because the bloody fan is so loud at higher speeds that delicate passages in the music get lost in the whirring noise.
Which leads me to the question I pose before this forum: is there a quiet ceiling fan that one can buy? (Please don't suggest ACs because I'd prefer not to have them)
Initially I was looking at Dyson bladeless fans (I believe they're fancifully called air multipliers) but going by a few videos on YouTube, they seem to be quite noisy as well. I read somewhere that DC motors make less noise than AC motors but are there any DC motor fans available in India? I also read that bigger and wider blades revolving at a slower speed can give the same volume of air displacement at less, er, volume in terms of sound. Any truth in that?
If anyone has wrestled with the same problem, I'd love to hear your thoughts. If it helps, the listening room is smallish about 12 ft x 13 ft with a ceiling height of 9.5 ft.
Which leads me to the question I pose before this forum: is there a quiet ceiling fan that one can buy? (Please don't suggest ACs because I'd prefer not to have them)
Initially I was looking at Dyson bladeless fans (I believe they're fancifully called air multipliers) but going by a few videos on YouTube, they seem to be quite noisy as well. I read somewhere that DC motors make less noise than AC motors but are there any DC motor fans available in India? I also read that bigger and wider blades revolving at a slower speed can give the same volume of air displacement at less, er, volume in terms of sound. Any truth in that?
If anyone has wrestled with the same problem, I'd love to hear your thoughts. If it helps, the listening room is smallish about 12 ft x 13 ft with a ceiling height of 9.5 ft.
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