Certainly there is something there in the recording. The Mac can't be heard by ear, from the front, more than a few inches away from the top rear edge of its housing and no whine seems to be present by ear. The iPhone doesn't record any noise from it at all (at idle) from more than two inches away. In effect, this Mac is "dead silent". In order to even record it at idle the iPhone had to be within two inches of the exhaust holes so it was placed on top of the Mac protected from the potential of the airflow hitting and affecting the mics. By getting that close I was able to record a "silent" Studio Mac. Any further away and there would be silence on the recording. I don't have a more sensitive external mic. The recording is real but does not reflect the actual user experience. Best I can do with my "dead silent" Mac Studio.
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Whine or No Whine - Does Your Mac Studio Suffer From It?
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Thx for your recording. I phone, to my knowledge can’t record under 30db. So , yeah, you need to get very close to it. To my girlfriends ear, my mac studio is also “dead silent”. But i can also hear my fridge making “noises” in the basement. 😅
I can hear an obvious and annoying whine in the beginning of this recording. This is the sound my 2 returned units made. The difference for me is that I could hear the whine from any part of the room and under any workloads including idle. I'm done with the Studio, waiting on a Mac Mini with 32gb of RAM as an alternative.
I will build now a under-desk-hanging-setup with anti dust filter. 🥳
Mine is the other side, the squeal is annoying now. Trying to get used to it, may send it back if I cannot. Trouble is what do I do with the display? Apple is unlikely to take it back.
I am in a different country but they accepted to take the display back after a month as I explained that I purchased it solely for the Mac Studio. You should try.
Resurrecting this thread, my base model definitively had whine from the fans, easily tuned by changing the RPM of the fans but always there. Brought it into the Apple Store, the guy at the genius bar couldn't hear it but recognised the problem, another customer had also had it.
He didn't fight me on it, ordered a new fan and today I left my machine for repair, hoping the replacement will not have the issue. They say it will be around a week of wait, I'm mostly worried about them messing up reapplying thermal paste or some other error while putting it back together 😰
He didn't fight me on it, ordered a new fan and today I left my machine for repair, hoping the replacement will not have the issue. They say it will be around a week of wait, I'm mostly worried about them messing up reapplying thermal paste or some other error while putting it back together 😰
Got mine repaired too. A got a completly new one. Same problem but at different rpm. But now they say its not faulty
They said they would repair the fan. The. They said i will get a new machine sine they said they dont like the idea of repairing an newly sold machine. So i got a new one.
They didn't offer you a replacement?
I can't understand how they recognise the problem the first time but the second they said its not faulty.
I have also a Mac Studio(Max) and I have the whine sound. Although I'm starting to thinking that this sound will be in every unit more or less. So I don't know what to do. if I should go for replacement/repair or just stick with it. Overall I'm thrilled with the performance that has. I want so bad to get rid of that sound and enjoy my machine.
Well.,…. The reseller run “their” tests and they said that the fans are OK. And that the sound is not noticable. When it, clearly is.
That's bad. If you try to send them screenshots from analysers and show them that there is the exact same sound before and after? This is what I'm gonna do, I have screenshots and recordings of my current machine, so if I replace it an have the same sound in a new unit I will show it to them with proofs.
Our company received another 13 mac studios. I gonna record sound from them and mine in the same environement and then i will have enough proof i think. Or they all sound ******😅
Actually that would be interesting. I mean maybe not recording them, but see if all the units have the same problem. if it is then maybe we won't find a machine without and just have to live with that sound. Please inform us if you have the chance to hear the other machines!!!
Company is closed till first week op september. But i will keep u posted.
About to get the mac studio 10 core $1999, but now im reading about a problem where the fans run 24/7 and sounds like "coil whine". not everyone has the problem of course, but i keep seeing alot of threads and videos but they are a while ago. worries me
Im wondering maybe if newer built ones are better?
Im wondering maybe if newer built ones are better?