Devonovar: In any event, if the new recordings begin with a sample of the ambient room noise, which may or may not also contain significant line noise, it will be easy to filter it out and see if the drive sound improves. In your view, improving the discernability of the drive sound does not necessa...

Devonavar -- I'm not sure that you understand my point or the nuances of the recording process. This is your logic: If SPCR could record the hard drives in an $1 million anechoic chamber, it should decline to do so because the ambient noise of an average room is needed to produce a realistic compara...

Hey Mike C, As an amateur audiophile with some production experience, I've always noticed one thing missing from the SPCR recordings that would make them a lot more useful. In fact, it is so obvious I probably ought to have mentioned it years ago. All of the recordings have a very loud ambient white...

"niggly" on P. 7 is not a word. Sure it is... nig·gle Pronunciation (ngl) intr.v. nig·gled, nig·gling, nig·gles 1. To be preoccupied with trifles or petty details. 2. To find fault constantly and trivially; carp. See Synonyms at quibble. [Perhaps of Scandinavian origin.] Case in point: the corr...

"niggly" on P. 7 is not a word.

I just got a Samsung SP2014N from Microcenter. Since they were in OEM packaging, I could ensure that it had a NIDEC motor. The 200 gig version seems noise-consistent with the SP1604N that has been reviewed here. It is very quiet, with less bothersome high-pitched whine than my Fujitsu MHT2040AT 2.5"...