I have also found that what I thought was loud when I was shooting it, didn' t sound loud when I let someone else shoot it and I stood a few feet away.
I was just shooting with my brother in the yard and I had himd shoot my bow while I stood about 6-8 feet to his right. I barely heard a thing. It still sounds a little loud to me when I shoot it though.........Who knows?? As long as the deer aren' t gonna hear it.
I took off the peep tube, slid the blocks down to the pockets and put on limb savers and cat whiskers on the string and cable in place of the stars.
Shoots like a dream but did little to eliminate that sound I keep hearing. The only thing left for me to do is add a stabilizer............I am no longer worried about it since I cannot hear it from 6 feet away and no one has told me they think it is loud.