There’s not a ton of fan noise. it’s not silent. when it turns on, it is more tonal that other fans.
Other fans have a white or pink noise, this fan is fairly pitched. I don’t like it, but it’s not on a lot.
On the topic of being audio sensitive, the speakers are not optimized at all so they sound so mid heavy and tinny, but I provided a generic EQ settings preset to make it high quality using PulseEffects.