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Quiet refrigerators?

Can anyone recommend any particularly quiet refrigerators brands/models?

I have an older refrigerator that makes an excessive amount of noise. Even at it's quietest, it's noticeable when I'm listening to music. I've tried cleaning the coils, but only had limited success reducing the noise. There's also no real way for me to get any more distance between my stereo and refrigerator.

Preferably under $1000, since that would cut substantially into my audio budget. :-)

Thanks for any help!
shimmin
ozfly
887 posts
 
Mknowles, I should have responded sooner -- I offered the Consumer Reports ratings only as confirmation, not as implication ;-) By the way, I purchased a Kenmore washer that was top ranked by Consumer Reports only to find that it eats up clothes (not quite literally)! Months later, CR started to say that it does that. Even when you research, things can go wrong. Oh well. At least life's interesting.
jc2000
92 posts
 
I have no idea if this still exists...but I understand that once they made refrigerators that somehow worked by burning natural gas. (No, I'm not making this up.) Apparently, there were no moving parts, so service life was long, and the operation was more or less dead quiet. It might be possible to find something like this in current production.
ozfly
887 posts
 
Wow! That's a great concept Jc. I thought it was the other way around though ... I get natural gas from what's in my refrigerator ;-)
audiobugged
528 posts
 
Jc2000 what a great concept for the Amish, who can't use AC! If they buy a house off us English, they have one year to use electricity while the renovate to their standards. They must convert all interior lighting to natural gas within that time span. I can see it now Ishmael the Maytag repairman arriving by Buggy.
mknowles16
101 posts
 
I have seen gas powered refrigerators in the Bahamas- as I recall, they also made ice. I was, and remain, confounded.
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