Originally Posted by
torero310
The Kickr is a lot louder and it's a much higher sound from what I've listened to. The neo does have a vibration feature but it's very quiet. I could only hear the clicking of the drive train. Could you describe the sound of the Elite Direto? like would it compare to a blender? Or something else?
Not noisy like a blender. Just light motor whirring and of course drive train noise. The Direto has a belt driven flywheel so it's not loud in my estimation. Rainmaker has some video I think that shows the sound levels of the various trainers. I didn't worry much about noise as bang for the buck. The price for the Direto was the selling point for me. My brother has the Kickr and other than noise I could tell no difference with grade changes on Zwift between the two and about the same lag time in Erg mode.