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Your 5 speed Rowenta VU2600 Turbo Silence Extreme is lulling you to sleep with its cool breeze. Drifting to sleep you go to turn the fan down in its trademarked 'silent sleep' mode and are ripped back into reality by an ear shattering BEEP. This beep is about the most annoying thing on the planet. Here are the reasons that I hate it. #1 - The beep is loud. Why in god's name would someone design the 'quietest fan in the world', and, once it is all done, include the loudest beep know to man. It's like having a truck back up in your room each time you push a button. #2 - The beep is annoying Not only is it loud, it is annoying. The possibilities for sounds it could be are LIMITLESS. They could have selected any sound on the planet, from a soft chime, to a soothing click, and after careful deliberation they landed on the 'alarm clock that everyone hates' sound effect. #3 - The beep serves no purpose. I can here your objections to this point. Clearly the beeps purpose is to cue the user of the change in setting. This might be useful if it was a fridge beeping to let you know the door was left ajar. This is not a fridge, it is a fan that moves air. It is not at all difficult to tell that it is on or that the speed has changed. You can feel your finger press the button down, see the fan spin, and feel the air, or lack of, against your skin. There is NO VALID reason to include a sound effect at all. Removing the speaker that causes the beep isn't too hard, but no consumer should have to take their new fan apart to make it not suck. Therefore the review stands at a 1 out of 5 despite the fix. ----How to remove --- DOING THIS PROBABLY VOIDS THE WARRANTY, and I can't recommend that anyone take these next steps. PROCEED WITH CAUTION. This makes the fan 100x better. Take the thing apart and remove the demon. There were some tricky torx screws which are annoying, but they can be beaten with a flathead of the right size. Attached are pictures of where the speaker is. Gently pull on this speaker with some pliers and it should come loose. Snip the copper wires connecting the speaker to the board. Put the thing back together and you're left with a much better product.