Heavy HDD use gave us 40dB, while accessing HDD and spinning up a Blu-ray took this to a deafening 50dBA. Luckily, once a disc was loaded and running, sounds from the drive ceased almost completely and overall system noise remained close to the idle level while actually playing a movie -- the Samsung SH-123L was impressive in that respect.
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Sound-masking system reduces noise and keeps conversations private.
The new Car Kit features an advanced noise and echocancellation system, which dramatically reduces background noise for the caller and removes ambient noise for the driver.
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He had rigged the .50-caliber machine gun on the turret with a propane system that generates the noise and muzzle flash of gunfire, without the bullets.
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Gamers do not have to worry about excess heat while having all of their settings cranked up, keeping the laptop cool is accomplished by an efficient and quiet design using a larger, single omni-directional blower fan and dual heat pipe and heat sink system, minimizing the noise and increasing the efficiency over other designs that utilize two smaller and louder blowers.
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Bigger pixels also emit more current, allowing their signal to swamp the electrical noise in the system.
This "noise in the system" erodes our performance on a wide spectrum of cognitive activities, including the ability to recall details in our lives.
Climate is the underlying average, or if the climate is changing it is the underlying trend, whereas weather is the noise in the system.
Mr Lambourne said the airport's promise of reduced night-time flights and a fining system for aircraft which breached noise limits, offered as a response to the consultation, was "spin".
As a consequence, good faith efforts by well-intentioned stakeholders in getting it right when it comes to regulating Hydraulic Fracturing and mitigating its real impacts have a difficult time cutting through all the noise in the system to get to real, sensible solutions.
Its no-contact drive system uses an advanced low-noise motor and geared belt to ensure control over speed while filtering out vibration.
All this helps create a system that encourages silence rather than noise.
The problem is that, as Roberta Wohlstetter pointed out half a century ago in her study of Pearl Harbor, separating out the really important signals from all the "noise" in the system is only easy to do after the fact, particularly when the U.S. government has now assembled a database of an astonishing number of 700, 000 individuals it suspects of ties to terrorism.
Rounding out the list, Acer moved the mics to the front, and also updated the cooling system with the promise of less fan noise.
The entire floor and ceiling of this building are parts of an air circulation system that works very hard and makes noise enough to prove it.
Providing great performance in dimly lit situations, the ELPH 330 HS digital camera includes the Company's HS SYSTEM that delivers clear images with minimal noise and maximum detail even when shooting in low-light.
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The sound is reproduced either by the sound system of the S-Class or by Sennheiser Noise Gard headphones, which filter out any unwanted ambient noise for unparalleled listening pleasure.
With its new 14.2-megapixel CMOS image sensor and Nikon's new EXPEED 2TM image processing system, the D3100 delivers exceptional image quality with low noise.
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Each of the airline's business-class seats will offer video on-demand on a 15.4-inch television, iPod-playing capability through an in-flight entertainment system, a USB port and power outlet, and noise-canceling headphones.
Its newly designed, large-aperture, 4x optical zoom lens (with the maximum aperture of F2.0 at wide-angle end), high-sensitivity, back-illuminated 16 megapixel CMOS image sensor, and sensor-shift Shake Reduction system ensure sharp, high-quality, low-noise images.
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Social media has become too much of a messaging system where tweets and ads get lost in an ocean of noise, she says.
First, as against the idea that disaffection with the benefits system amounts to a petit bourgeois roar from the suburbs, a lot of the noise gets louder as you head into the most disadvantaged parts of society.
They have developed a program that filters out the noise in much the same way that the human brain's reticular activating system filters out most of our sensual stimuli, and only passes on the information we need to function and survive.
The system promises fares per head of around a third of the metered price, not to mention less noise, disruption, congestion and pollution.
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