Does your Macbook with Retina make a small (very quiet) fuse-like sound during start-ups?

Dear fellow Macbook (preferable with retina users!) users!
Whenever I press the power button to start up my Macbook with Retina (Mid-2012), I hear this very faint fuse-like (cannot describe it any better, sorry!) coming from the top (I think the top-right) section of my keyboard. I can hear it every time I press the power button, it doesn't matter whether it is turned off or on sleep mode but I can always hear this weird fuse-like noise. I was wondering if anyone else hears this noise?
I don't think it is an software issue. Please some enlighten me?
Thank you.

I have no idea what you men by " fuse-like  " sound. fuses  do not make a sound. Or do you mean a burning fuse like used in the old days for dynamite?

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