Will low voltage lights cause audible hum?


I'm about to install recessed lights in my listening room, and my interior designer and my electrician are recommending low voltage lights. I'm wondering whether the transformers in them will hum and raise the noise floor in the room. Anyone had experience with this?
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Thanks for your advice. I'm in the process of rehabbing the entire electrical system in my home, which is 20 years old. Upgrading from 200 amp service to 300 amp service with two circuits exiting from the meter, 200 amp service main circuit to a Square D QO load center for the entire house other than the AV system and 100 amp service main circuit for the AV system, which employs an 0 awg armored cooked and cryo'd cable from Virtual Dynamics to a Square D QO load center for the AV system with 5 circuits of 10 awg armored cable from Virtual Dynamics to Virtual Dynamics recepticals, one each for the mono blocks, one for analog, one for digital and one for the projector.

The recessed cans in the room will be on the house main circuit and controlled by Lutron remote control system. From your advice, it sounds like I should avoid low voltage and go with full power halogens.