Kirkland, Wash. ? The Seahawks have an answer to all the noise about whether their home stadium is artificially loud.

Make it louder.

“If I’m a fan, I take that kind of personally. Like, ‘If you think last game was loud, or you think the NFC Championship was loud, wait until Sunday,”‘ Seattle coach Mike Holmgren said.

Even new NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has an opinion about Seattle’s “12th Man” – its noisy advantage in a stadium where the Seahawks have won 11 consecutive regular-season games and 23 of 26 since 2002.

“I love the 12th Man,” Goodell said.

“I love the fact that home fans can influence the game. I’m not trying to take that away,” Goodell said immediately after he began his term replacing Paul Tagliabue three weeks ago.

As the Seahawks prepare to play host to the New York Giants this week, coaches from both teams are responding to allegations that Seattle pipes in recorded noise to augment the roars of 67,000-plus on Sunday. Holmgren confirmed that the NFL informed the Seahawks this week that the league was sending a monitor to Sunday’s game – as it did last week against the visiting Cardinals – to ensure there are no hi-fi hijinx.

In the Giants’ overtime loss in Seattle last November, New York had an astounding 11 false-start penalties. Giants players said the flags were because of earsplitting noise at Qwest, where opponents committed a league-high 24 false starts last season. Arizona had four more in Seattle’s home-opener victory last week.

“We weren’t ready for that last year,” said then-Giants kickoff returner Willie Ponder, whom Seattle signed after New York cut him this month.

Giants coach Tom Coughlin said Wednesday he did not believe the noise was artificially enhanced.

“It was very loud, but it has that reputation,” Coughlin said of the Seattle’s crowd. “The crowd gets into the game, and they use the crowd well.”