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      04-09-2020, 09:16 PM   #23
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One man's garbage, is another's castle!

Some like fart cans, some like stealth! Some like the turbo thrush, and others a supercharger whine... To each his own! 4, 6, 8, 12 cylinders, low or high rpm engine, etc., etc., etc.
You forgot 10 cylinder engine haha.
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Same reason that Alfa V6's are one of the very few V6's that don't sound awful.
But how and why? How do they do it? it's a very distinct sound, even a bog stock 105 series with a NA four sounds pretty dang good.
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It must be an Italian thing
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BMW has a solution for that and it's called ASD.

Here you can hear melodic sound of a straight six in your 4 cylinder BMW but only while you're inside. Outside it sounds like a diesel clattering from all the direct injectors.

I wonder what the 2.0L 3 cylinder turbo from a 600HP Koenigsegg Gemera sounds like?

The sound is so distinct and is only heard by select billionaires or some lucky journalists!
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Beating a dead horse here...

Sound and it's interpretation, ie, like/dislike is completely subjective to the Listener!

Or shall we all listen to Bach!? Lmao...
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The subaru boxer is pretty distinctive. Its a described as a "rumble"
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The subaru boxer is pretty distinctive. Its a described as a "rumble"
Unequal length headers.
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Unequal length headers.
You could be right but the headers on the FA engine are equal and it does have a "rumble" but probably not as bad. I'll have to compare the two.

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Sound is overrated imo. Sure, if it sounds good why not, but whenever I hear ppl say X exhaust is better than Y, they then compare them head-to-head, and, sure, you can hear the ever-so-slight difference, but if heard by themselves, they both sound good enough and doubtful they could tell unless it's really obvious. Similarly, a 4-banger could be made to sound good and some V12s sound like vacuum cleaners.

Sportscars handling>>>>>>>>>>>>>sound.
Depends where you live. Roads here are BRUTALLY straight and monumentally dull, there is literally not a decent road for at least 300 miles.

I will take some NA revs and some noise over pure handling given where I live.
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