Recent content by James Bowtine

I'm not a big fan of returning stuff out of respect for the people in the shop (I bought it from Richer Sounds). A packet of felt pads stacked a few up neatly adhered to the underside of the box has lifted the whirring off the cabinet now. All we're left with is a white noise purring, which is...

Thanks - that is helpful

Except the last Humax box, which was completely silent 'in comparison'. I appreciate anything moving will emit something audible.

I actually don't want to return it - but then again I have no benchmark to what's normal, hence the sign-up to this forum. Thanks Black Hole, I'll obtain something suitable and see if it alleviates the issue. Although having to do this seems wrong from the get-go; tech should be silent.

OK, so I'm leaning very much to the 'spinning hard drive component' vibration inside the chassis. There's no whine or white 'power' sound that I can determine. What I'm kind of getting at here, is this the normal build - is this a point where I return the product, or would the replacement do...

Hey guys, long time user of the HDR1000s, which ran silently, just acquired a new HDR1100s and was surprised by the quite noisy vibration, pulsating hum of this thing. Is this normal? Placing on a wooden surface and we have our own mini-747 going 'round. I guess, is this normal and if so, do...