one of my pet hates is noisy machines... it made me very happy when i found a way to make my pc quiet except when it's doing hard work - which is fine, but in my new place, the most irritating machine is the refrigerator

i had encountered this before, and the solution is stupidly simple

many refrigerators have a liquid catcher mounted above the compressor pump... usually, just standing on one bolt which makes for sertain that it's a little prone to wobbling, and then, when the compressor is running, the damn plastic shit rattles against the body of the compressor, making an incredibly loud noise... not styrene level noise but annoying as fuck and especially out of place in my current environment of ridiculously quiet, peaceful seaside, rural surrounds

well, the fix is simple... just get a bit of foam and jam it in underneath the water catcher doodle and bob's your uncle... ok maybe you don't have an uncle who is called robert but neither do i

the refirgerator is now down to a volume level that i barely even know its on except for a quiet hum no worse than some 140mm computer fans blowing at 2000rpm, inaudible with even quiet music on

i hate refrigerators... when i finally come to building my own place, the compressor is going to be sited outside of the space where i live, built custom out of the building itself and enclosed behind a very well sealed space with ventilation for keeping the cooling fins nice and ventilated, and inaudible in the kitchen space

the level of sound that is called "quiet" by most washing machine and refrigerator manufacturers is a joke, and most of the time it's been so bad that the only way to get quiet in my bedroom was to actually close the door, and even then i could hear it through the cracks

sucks having hyperacuity, but at least there is solutions... in this case, just little bits of foam, and done