popeyJun 17, 2024

Quiz time! Guess the noise!

Attached to this post is an audio file. Have a listen and guess the origin.

I recorded this in my rented co-working office space. It's super loud and annoying and has been happening for months.

Engineers have now discovered the source!

Clues:
* I am on the 2nd of 4 floors
* It's intermittent and can happen a few times a day, or 5 times in 5 minutes.
* There is a bathroom nearby
* There are other offices nearby
* It does not come from my office (or me)

Guess!

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Bonus clues:

* It can last as long as 15 seconds or as short as 5
* It's been happening since at least August last year, but I have noticed more as I am here more often

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Further bonus clue.

* The *office* from where the noise comes is a "call-centre".

Jun 17, 2024 at 2:37pmWeb
Show threadpopeyJun 17, 2024

Final clue (will reveal later today)..

* The device now has a "Do not use" sign on it. :D

Show threadpopeyJun 17, 2024
Answer here: https://mastodon.social/@popey/112633332442141722
Show threadprozakJun 17, 2024
@popey I didn’t know faucets ran DNS these days… blimey! So many tech advances
Show threadRob\Viewdata UKJun 17, 2024
@popey
A shredder?
Show threadpopeyJun 17, 2024
@robert A popular but incorrect suggestion.
Show threadBruno GirinJun 17, 2024
@popey a printer?
Show threadprozakJun 17, 2024
@popey It's gotta be DNS, it is ALWAYS DNS
Show threadZygmunt KrynickiJun 17, 2024

@popey automatic fan in some rarely used toilet gone bust?

Coffee grinder?

Show threadZygmunt KrynickiJun 17, 2024
@popey did I guess right :-) ?
Show threadpopeyJun 17, 2024
@zygoon nobody has has yet guessed the specific item.
Show threadZygmunt KrynickiJun 17, 2024

@popey ahhhh

What is it!?

The sound reminds me of a weird pipe rattle but my mind also said “cursed DVD drive in some old office printer” and “someone rebooting a SUN workstation in the closet”.

Show threadIain CuthbertsonJun 17, 2024
@popey mains (water) water cooler?
Show threadCooljimy84Jun 17, 2024
@bigcalm @popey yea with you on that one, its got that kinda rubber diaphragm noise, almost pump like
Show threadMicah Ilbery Jun 17, 2024
@popey hand dryer?
Show threadBruno GirinJun 17, 2024
@popey call centre staff screaming into the void?
Show threadpopeyJun 17, 2024
@brunogirin hah!
Show threadHugo MillsJun 17, 2024
@popey Oh, then it'll be the screams of the damned.
Show threadEaterOfSnacksJun 17, 2024
@popey It'll be their tree chipper, then. Gotta dispose of the non-closers somehow.
Show threadFrenchguyCHJun 17, 2024
@popey that's an oddly specific spelling. Is there a relation to the origin of the noise ?
Show threadpopeyJun 17, 2024
@frenchguych Which word did I spell weirdly?
Show threadFrenchguyCHJun 17, 2024
@popey it the double quotes and the dash between the words that tricked my weird mine into thinking it was a clue !
Show threadpopeyJun 17, 2024
@frenchguych Hah! My clues are not that deep :)
Show threadFrenchguyCHJun 17, 2024
@popey bummer :)
Show threadFrenchguyCHJun 17, 2024
@popey then I guess the word *office* between two stars ain't a clue either ?
Show threadpopeyJun 17, 2024
@frenchguych You funny man.
Show threadCooljimy84Jun 17, 2024
@popey is it like their version of a sales bell/account deal made kinda thing ?
Show threadpopeyJun 17, 2024
@cooljimy84 No