What gear is everyone running

Then your setting is wrong. The gear settings provided with the gears is only a guideline. You always go by the gear pattern left by marking compound.
I guess there could be a flawed set. but for anyone to say Richmond gears whine is wrong.
We have ran them spooled, sure gripped, welded lol with 14 " slicks and never had a gear failure.
I only listed a handful of ratios we used.