My solution to that was to avoid fridges which have fans (I love maximum quietness). That means you won't get the "No Frost" feature - for me the tradeoff was w

My solution to that was to avoid fridges which have fans (I love maximum quietness). That means you won't get the "No Frost" feature - for me the tradeoff was worth it. After that, I sorted the friges in an online comparator by the declared noise level (in dB), and chose the most quiet one. I'm pretty happy with it. Unfortunately, it makes annoying gas noises from time to time - apparently, that's a feature of all modern fridges (or so I was told by the repairman) - the noise is made by gas they use instead of freon. I learned to live with those noises and no longer notice them.