Any gear can be noisey if there's a problem. Problems are not always with the gears themselves, or even from the chuck. But - if there are not other issues, and they are broken in proerly, no gear ratio in and of itself will be noisey.
Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.
