[superfamicom]

I grew up with CRTs and bought one at a retro game conference to put on my desk for some gaming. I had all but forgotten the deafening noise they make. The sound is hard to describe if you have not heard it. The sound hits different than an arcade with a bunch of noises and music and everything going on, but in my generally quiet office you can hear it from 2 rooms away when it is on. I tend to prefer how the SNES looks on the CRT compared to any modern screen with super sharp pixels, but that is easily (expensively?) fixed with a RetroTINK 4K to get the CRT style filters. The noise is just something to consider I don't see discussed often. My cats had never heard that noise and it freaked them out the first time they heard it.

https://www.retrotink.com/shop/retrotink-4k

[LargoLasskhyfv]

Then it's a bad CRT, or degraded.

I remember this from decades ago, there were big differences even in new ones.

Where the silent ones not necessarily were satisfactory for cats, since their hearing is more sensitive, and perceives higher frequencies.

OTOH some cats really like to sleep atop of them, maybe because of the warmth? Or what the electrostatics do to their fur?

[cout]

I find the noise of a crt much more pleasing than the noise of a bad lcd. To me the crt is musical but the lcd is shrill.

I think hard drives are similar. There was something pleasing about the the 30MB ESDI in my first computer, but as hard drives got larger and faster, they also got more scratchy-sounding. Now I have a cheap PCIe M.2 adapter, and the sound it makes is like the newer hard drives, only less rhythmic. That alone makes it an irritant.

[musicale]

15KHz flyback transformer noise.

A similar (but likely louder and more irritating) high-pitched noise was weaponized as the "Mosquito" teen repellent device.

[WesolyKubeczek]

Back in my childhood it was hard for me to go to sleep if the TV was on, no matter how quiet the actual program was.