This meeting is the perfect example of why you need to let me run loose and just start fixing stuff. We're walking the same circles we've been walking for years now, because the same people are more interested in padding their resumes with new shiny tools, than actually solving the same problems...
I've got a monoprice voxel (flashforge ad3 clone) and a flashforge ad5m both in my office about 8 feet away. They're roughly as loud when running as my RX6800XT GPU's fans are under heavy load. And really, it's the cooling fan on the extruder that is noisy. I don't think you need to worry all...