Product review (4 stars): A beautiful refrigerator but loud.
Just put in all new GE profile appliances and they look beautiful. I would have given this a 5 star rating but I personally believe that this fridge is very loud. If the unit is cooled down and running at the set temperature, it runs almost silent. Maybe that is when people are giving this a 5 star rating. Once it warms up and the compressors come on to cool it back down, which happens throughout the day and night, I would say it is extremely loud. I even tried shutting down the second ice maker to see if that makes a difference and it doesn't. I have a colonial, which is a decent size house and I can hear this thing running three rooms away. To be honest, the refrigerator that I replaced was 20 years old and it was much quieter. I understand that the newer refrigerators are much larger than before and the compressors have to be larger as well. The noise issue has been brought up in a number of previous reviews regarding this model but Is this really the new "quiet" when it comes to these oversized refrigerators or does this model have an issue?