Sorry to burst your bubble Mike, but the
Vortex wasn't nearly as quiet as I thought it was gonna be.
If you've never owned a V or
AT I guess you could assume that the V was quiet, but as the owner of an
AT for over a yr. now I was not impressed with the sound volume. In fact, we couldn't discern any difference in volume between the two. Maybe I'm just to old now and I've lost my hearing working around these things for yrs., but that's my take on it.
And yes it was the newer model ,it only had 6 hrs. on it when Rick started it in the morning.
Man, I don't know about the blower in a box thing, when the really hot weather comes in in a few wks., I wouldn't want to depend on that cheap looking plastic fan to protect my big 7 blower.