I like what C.S. Lewis has to say about noise in The Screwtape Letters:

Music and silence–how I detest them both! How thankful we should be that ever since Our Father entered Hell [...] no square inch of infernal space and no moment of infernal time has been surrendered to either of those abominal forces, but all has been occupied by Noise–Noise, the grand dynamism, the audible expression of all that is exultant, ruthless, and virile–Noise which alone defends us from silly qualms, despairing scruples and impossible desires. -C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Ch. 22, (1942)

This is my current “computing station.” I have decided that multiple computer monitors are almost a must. There are three Samsung Syncmaster T220HDs and one Dell 2408WFP. The studio monitors are Yamaha HS80s.