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by JonathonW 2376 days ago
The CRT noise is an actual sound; CRT flyback transformers tend to vibrate at the horizontal scanning rate of the display and that's audible for NTSC and PAL (at around 15 kHz), if you have good hearing.

An LCD shouldn't whine, but some can (bad capacitors, cheap power supplies, or any number of other causes).