i am looking for the quietest hob filter. the newer aquaclears are just not as quiet as they use to be. so i am looking for a quieter hob filter.
some are more quiet than othersThere is no such thing. The minute sand make it to the impeller it will make noise. The brand I like is aquaclear. Get an Eheim classic. It's silent.
The reason you don't hear anything is because the background humming noise of your air pump. Turn off the air pump and tell me what you hear. Background noise is often employed to make a room or car to feel quieter.only hobs i run are ac110s and i dont hear anything, theyre dead silent.
only thing i hear is water some times due to evaporation and if not i only
hear the hum of the air pumps.
without the pumps its silent when the tank is filled to the top.The reason you don't hear anything is because the background humming noise of your air pump. Turn off the air pump and tell me what you hear. Background noise is often employed to make a room or car to feel quieter.
This I cannot agree with. There is a reason that we have mechanical engineers continually trying to improve designs using the same materials and likely the same manufacturer. Some designs are much better than others. Quietflow for example is inherently loud because they have cascading water in several portions of the filter. Emperor bio wheel filters have 3 times the moving parts as most filters AND have jets of water that spray out into open air. These are all sources of more noise.All HOBs have similar design and probably made from the same factory floor in China. So there is no one brand that is inherently quieter than the other if it is new, and maintained properly.