RE: no sound
An STS systemwill make a big difference. Accompanied with limbsavers alsoa heavier arrow,remembertocheck and recheck all screws, bolts, fasteners, stablizers, sight pins, and broadheads/field pointsfor tightness and you should be shooting a pretty silent rig. Losing the quiver helped me alot like the other guys said, I had my wife fix my pack so I can attatchmy quiverto it and lost alot of needles noise there aswell.