An arrangement for reducing the radiation of noise from liquid-cooled transformers or chokes includes a tank having stiffeners arranged outside on the side walls of the tank, where a region situated between each stiffener is covered by a sandwich panel that is fastened to each stiffener, where each sandwich panel has a metallic wall that hermetically closes off a cavity that is filled with a composition composed of a polymer material and a filler material, where the composition has a specific weight of >2 grams per cubic centimeter.